Senior Security Architecture Specialist

In the Technology division we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Senior Security Architecture Specialistposition at Vice President level which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialist cyber expertise and creating solutions that protect the organizations systems and networks against actual and potential security threats and vulnerabilities.

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Were seeking someone to join our team as a Senior Security Architecture Specialist in Cyber to be responsible for the security design tooling and security architecture standards across the firm translating compliance obligations into operable developer friendly architecture patterns while directly operating the design governance toolchain that makes those standards real.

What youll do in the role:

Architecture governance

• Steward the security architecture standard across all verticals ADRs threat models trust boundaries and control plane design

• Produce compliance traceability artifacts mapping architecture decisions to compliance requirements

• Drive cross team architecture through influence with principal engineers and engineering leads

• Support security standards create templates and patterns to increase the efficiency and adoption of security programs.

Living Spec & Design Governance

• Operate and evolve the design governance toolchain

• Define the ADR lifecycles from creation to deprecation and ensure decision records remain the authoritative reference for architecture choices

• Build integrations between spec platform and dev tooling to make compliance traceability continuous not periodic

What youll bring to the role:

• Bachelors degree with 7 years of work experience in the IT field or equivalent.

• Demonstrated experience designing and governing SDLC security controls at scale SAST SCA OSS governance and container scanning.

• Hands-on experience with policy as code frameworks (OPA Sentinel or equivalent) and the ability to review and write policies not just evaluate vendor tooling.

• Experience producing architecture decision records threat models or equivalent design governance artifacts that served as authoritative references for engineering teams.

• Strong written and verbal communication ability to translate architecture decisions into compliance traceability artifacts and executive-facing recommendation documents.

• Track record of driving adoption through influence.

• Strong scripting background (Python PowerShell).

Desired Skills:

• A degree in Cybersecurity and/or CISSP/CSSLP certification and keen desire to move to security field.

• Business acumen to support the implementation of SAST DAST SCA Container Security API Security and IaC tools across the enterprise.

• Ability to perform code reviews with minimal assistance.

• A self-starter with a strong desire for learning new technologies and applying them to solve problems.

• Expertise in monitoring alerting reporting and data analysis.

• Experience with two or more of the application build environments like Jenkins Gradle Maven.

• Familiarity with public cloud services.

• Experience with two or more of the Secure SDLC tools like GitHub Advanced Security Snyk WhiteSource Sonatype X-Ray Wiz.

• Experience with Threat Analysis.

• DevOps container/orchestration tools (Kubernetes Docker Puppet etc.).

• Experience with evaluation integration and onboard of application security tools.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley we raise manage and allocate capital for our clients helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way thats differentiated and weve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first doing the right thing leading with exceptional ideas committing to diversity and inclusion and giving back - arent just beliefs they guide the decisions we make every day to do whats best for our clients communities and more than 80000 employees in 1200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley youll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. Theres also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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