Senior Security Architect: Enable Secure, Rapid Delivery

Booking.com; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Product discounts

Global impact

Time off

Job summary

Booking.com is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the security architecture domain within Tech Standards. You will enable secure engineering practices, define non-functional requirements, and shape practical security guidance for large, distributed engineering teams across identity, data protection, network and cloud security.

As a senior advocate, you will influence engineering communities, balance security with delivery speed, and drive pragmatic risk-based decisions in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Significant experience in technology with strong experience in security architecture at enterprise scale.
• Deep understanding of enterprise security domains incl. identity and access management, data protection, network security, application security, infrastructure security, and cloud security.
• Proven ability to design security architecture for large, distributed engineering organisations.
• Experience shaping security non-functional requirements, architectural guidance, reference patterns, and technical guidance.
• Strong understanding of zero-trust principles and how to apply them pragmatically in complex environments.
• Experience with security regulations, audit expectations, and risk management.
• Strong understanding of software delivery, developer workflows, and embedding security into the SDLC.
• Credibility with senior engineers, architects, security specialists, and SRE teams to influence without authority.
• Clear communicator of complex topics to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the security architecture domain within Tech Standards, aligned with enterprise direction.
• Translate guiding principles into practical security architecture guidance and defaults.
• Work with Security to shape non-functional requirements that are clear and usable by engineers.
• Turn security requirements, policies, and audit findings into reference patterns.
• Partner with Business Unit architects and SRE to ensure guidance is relevant to delivery needs.
• Provide a strategic enterprise view of security across IAM, data protection, network and cloud security.
• Champion shift-left security in the software and product delivery lifecycle.
• Define practical zero-trust patterns and adoption approaches for Booking.com's estate.
• Help teams understand trade-offs between security, delivery speed, resilience and cost.
• Coach architects to make security architecture easier to adopt.

Skills

Security architecture

Enterprise security

Identity & access mgmt

Data protection

Zero-trust

Cloud security

SDLC security

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Pragmatic judgment

Job description

Booking.com is seeking a Senior Security Architect to lead the security architecture domain within Tech Standards. You will enable secure engineering practices, define non-functional requirements, and shape practical security guidance for large, distributed engineering teams across identity, data protection, network and cloud security.

As a senior advocate, you will influence engineering communities, balance security with delivery speed, and drive pragmatic risk-based decisions in a fast-paced