Senior Security Solutions Architect, AWS Financial Services, AWS Financial Services

Are you passionate about the impact of cloud computing and AI on Financial Services with a special focus on security Do you have a unique combination of broad and deep security knowledge coupled with business acumen and strong interpersonal skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a specialized Security Solutions Architect to work with our largest Financial Services this vital role you will help customers achieve their business goals on AWS by identifying and tackling major security risk and compliance questions from stakeholders within financial institutions and by building and maintaining CIO/CISO/CRO and executive-level relationships with policy approvers and owners. You will work directly with customer security audit risk and compliance teams to help them understand how to confidently utilize AWS identify risk and design controls setup ongoing assurance and establish automated compliance.






Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Help overcome barriers to AWS adoption in Financial Services accounts by identifying and tackling major security risk and compliance questions from stakeholders within financial institutions.
- Participate in architecture discussions to work through risk security and compliance concerns.
- Work with customer stakeholders to identify controls as well as educating auditors and examiners by helping them understand how to assess third-party supplier arrangements and conduct audits when AWS is in scope.
- Build and maintain executive-level relationships with CIO/CISO/CRO and policy approvers and owners.
- Develop high-quality technical content such as white papers and reference architectures that can be used by our customers to assist them in deploying secure and compliant cloud-based solutions.
- Assess security and controls knowledge across AWS sales and solutions architecture teams and develop plans to address gaps.

A day in the life
Work with financial services customers and with colleagues to drive meaningful security and business outcomes. Help customers meet and exceed their high security bar on AWS.

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- 7 years of IT development or implementation/consulting in the software or Internet industries experience
- 5 years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development cloud computing systems engineering infrastructure security networking data & analytics) experience
- 3 years of design implementation or consulting in applications and infrastructures experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience communicating across technical and non-technical audiences including executive level stakeholders or clients
- 3 years of communicating with and presenting to executive and senior audiences experience
- Experience developing technology security solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology security roadmaps that guide secure IT transformations toward cloud computing

- Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
- Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
- Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives IT management and developers
- Experience architecting migrating transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
- Experience with any combination of the following: threat modeling secure coding identity management and authentication software development cryptography system administration and network security
- Experience in application security architecture security code reviews security testing incident response or security infrastructure

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at IL Chicago - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 169000.00 - 228600.00 USD annually
USA TX Houston - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 153600.00 - 207800.00 USD annually