Director of Product Security Architecture

Kion Group AG; Waterloo; On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Director of Product Security Architecture to lead the charge in enhancing product security across its innovative solutions. This pivotal role involves shaping technical security strategies, collaborating with senior leadership, and guiding teams to ensure that products are developed and maintained in a secure environment. You will be at the forefront of driving security excellence, mentoring teams, and navigating the complexities of modern security challenges. If you're passionate about security and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Career Development

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Pay Transparency

Global Opportunities

Qualifications

• Expert development skills in multiple programming languages and frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of application and cloud security principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic security leadership across product development and support organizations.
• Define and implement technical security strategies for all products.

Skills

Java

Python

C

C++

C#

JavaScript

TypeScript

Node

React

Golang

Application Security

Cloud Security

Threat Modeling

Risk Mitigation

Communication Skills

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Burp Suite

Zed Attack Proxy

Kali Linux

Container-based Deployments

Kubernetes

Job description

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Director of Product Security Architecture

Apply locations Waterloo, Canada time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id JR-0072994

As the Lead Architect and Director of Product Security Architecture for Dematic, you will be critical to the advancement of security throughout the company, enabling the success and growth of the business in an environment of increasing demands for comprehensive and robust product security. Under the Vice President of Global Product Security, you will provide strategic and expertly informed technical security leadership to the product development, execution, sales, and support organizations across Dematic. You will be responsible for defining a broad and detailed technical strategy for security that encompasses all Dematic products, including next-gen software solutions, existing software solutions, and operational technology solutions.

You will play a crucial role in ensuring the development of truly secure products and the operation of those products in a robustly secure environment by providing best-in-class architectural guidance and vision, while passionately pursuing personal and organizational excellence in the field of security. You will collaborate with senior technology leadership and engineering teams to both define and implement the vision and strategy of the Product Security organization. You will inspire, guide, and support our development, execution, and customer-facing teams as they continuously progress toward greater maturity with respect to security knowledge and practice. You will be relied upon as an essential resource to proactively and efficiently defend our systems and data from attack, while ensuring that the security of our products meets and exceeds all relevant regulatory requirements.

What we offer:

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $X-Y at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications:

What You Will do in This Role:

• Provide strategic and expertly informed technical security leadership to globally distributed product development, execution, sales, and support organizations across Dematic.
• Define technical security strategy that encompasses all Dematic products, including next-gen software solutions, existing software solutions, and operational technology solutions.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to both define and implement the vision and strategy of the Product Security organization.
• Drive advancement of technical and operational capabilities necessary to implement a robust product security strategy.
• Provide guidance and leadership for all efforts to build security into every aspect of Dematic’s product development lifecycle.
• Perform technical security risk assessments of internally developed as well as third-party products and systems.
• Advise and educate development teams with respect to application, cloud, and product security best practices.
• Build and maintain high-trust, highly collaborative relationships with teams and individuals across the organization.
• Mentor application, infrastructure, and operational technology security engineers, as well as security champions globally distributed throughout the company.
• Provide guidance in response to product security incidents.
• Continuously learn, keep abreast of, and evaluate industry trends/direction and technical developments in the product and cloud security domains.
• Perform research into and present on relevant security technology, practices, and threats.
• Work closely with a team of security staff to ensure company products and services withstand all foreseen and reasonable attacks.
• Engage with product management, customer sales/support, and other functions as needed to further business development from a security perspective.
• Potentially engage with customers directly as required by project leadership.

What We Are Looking For:

• Expert development skills in multiple languages, platforms, and frameworks, including Java, Python, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, React, and Golang.
• Expert knowledge of application and cloud security principles, patterns, and techniques.
• Expert threat modeling skills.
• Expert knowledge of AWS, GCP and/or Azure security models and best practices.
• High proficiency in a broad spectrum of cloud services in AWS, GCP and/or Azure.
• High proficiency in identity and access management technology, principles, and patterns.
• High proficiency in container-based / Kubernetes deployments and DevSecOps principles.
• Proficiency in applied cryptography.
• Proficiency in the use of Burp Suite, Zed Attack Proxy, Kali Linux, or other OffSec platforms.
• Strong ability to recognize the value of various competing risk mitigation strategies.
• Highly flexible and comfortable making decisions in uncertain environments.
• Preference for and ability to thrive in highly collaborative work environments.
• Passionate and quick learner.
• Self-driven, highly motivated, and relentless pursuer of quality.
• Resilient and ever optimistic in the face of challenges.
• Strong ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear language.
• Open and direct communicator.
• Outstanding written and spoken communication skills.
• Highly capable of teaching and mentoring technical staff.