Job Summary:
Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation, focused on advancing business and technology strategies within the cybersecurity domain. The Security Architect will be responsible for developing security standards, managing architecture governance, and ensuring secure design principles are integrated into solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Own security solution architecture for assigned products and platforms within the Security domain.
• Develop and maintain security standards, reference architectures, and design patterns for use in governance and solution delivery.
• Translate business and technical requirements into security architecture blueprints and document all design and analysis work.
• Track emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and technology trends to ensure security strategies remain current and effective.
• Provide architecture guidance during solution design reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise security posture and regulatory requirements.
• Act as a security SME within EA domains, influencing architecture decisions and ensuring secure design principles and best practices are integrated early in the solution lifecycle.
• Evaluate emerging security tools and services, advising on adoption strategies and integration feasibility.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field required.
• Strong understanding of security domains (IAM, Network, Application, Cloud, Data, AI) with depth in at least two.
• Hands-on experience creating architecture artifacts (standards, patterns, diagrams) and supporting governance processes.
• Ability to evaluate technology landscapes and emerging threats and distill them into repeatable, secure design patterns.
• Hands-on experience designing secure cloud architecture, with a strong emphasis on Microsoft Azure; AWS experience is also acceptable.
• Experience with threat modeling methodologies and ability to operationalize them within governance processes.
• Knowledge of CASB solutions, data governance and security practices, and Zero Trust principles for securing cloud, applications, and data.
• Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Knowledge of financial services regulatory requirements (e.g., FFIEC, PCI DSS, SOX).
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and CI/CD security integration.
• Security Architect Level Certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert).
• Advanced experience working in an architecture function with knowledge & experience developing reference architectures & patterns and supporting governance functions related to: Application Development, Cloud Compute, Storage and Networking technologies. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Serverless, Containers, Automation, Security.
• Advanced understanding of product management, agile principles and development methodologies and capability of supporting agile and DevOps teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, taking account of technical and architectural debt.
• Advanced speaking and writing communication skills.
• May require up to 25% travel.
Preferred:
• Previous leadership experience preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of general Financial Services or Banking is preferred.
• Intermediate knowledge of applicable regulatory and legal compliance obligations, rules and regulations, industry standards and practices.
Company:
Western Alliance Bank is a banking firm that offers commercial and business banking solutions. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Phoenix, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.