Senior Security Architect & Threat Modeling Lead

PowerToFly; Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in Montreal, QC, seeks a Senior Security Architect Specialist to lead security assessments and threat modeling across a diverse tech environment. This Lead Risk & Resiliency Management role sits at VP level within the Technology division, with a hybrid work setup in Montreal.

The position requires 6+ years in infrastructure or application security, a Bachelor’s degree, and ability to convey vulnerabilities and risks to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of infrastructure security, application security, or secure risk assessment within large enterprise environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
• Ability to explain common application vulnerabilities and remediation strategies to developers.
• Ability to communicate technology risks to Business Owners and senior stakeholders.
• Experience in security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical risk identification.
• Understanding of enterprise security controls across endpoint, network, OS, and cloud technologies.

Responsibilities

• Undertake security design reviews and support ongoing infrastructure and endpoint security controls.
• Identify technical control gaps and assess security requirements to remediate risks.
• Ensure ongoing quality and consistency of security assessments across tech initiatives.
• Provide architectural guidance to help teams follow security best practices.
• Communicate technical gaps, attack scenarios, and risks to IT System Owners and stakeholders.
• Deliver remediation guidance and partner with owners to address vulnerabilities.
• Articulate technology risks to Business Owners to support risk-based decisions.
• Define new technical control requirements as technologies evolve.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Security risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE or equivalent

Tools

Active Directory

Intune

Endpoint Manager/SCCM

Defender

Office 365

Power Platform

Job description

Morgan Stanley in Montreal, QC, seeks a Senior Security Architect Specialist to lead security assessments and threat modeling across a diverse tech environment. This Lead Risk & Resiliency Management role sits at VP level within the Technology division, with a hybrid work setup in Montreal.

The position requires 6+ years in infrastructure or application security, a Bachelor’s degree, and ability to convey vulnerabilities and risks to senior stakeholders.