AVP Security Architect: M&A, Cloud & Data Security Leader

LPL Financial; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 123,000 - 204,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking an AVP, Security Architect in Austin, TX to lead security architecture across data, cloud, and on-prem environments. You will collaborate with Development, Operations, Business units, and Enterprise Architecture to secure and monitor environments and design defensible architectures to mitigate risks.

The ideal candidate has extensive information security experience, strong design and leadership skills, and a track record of driving security across complex initiatives.

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in information security and IT risk management.
• 2+ years’ experience working on M&A integrations.
• 5+ years of experience with information security controls, guidelines, and standards (ISO27000, OWASP, CSA CCM, CIS, SOX, NIST).

Responsibilities

• Supports efforts to mature network, infrastructure and data security capabilities for LPL Financial.
• Serves as a subject matter expert, providing guidance on industry best practices.
• Supports M&A integrations with secure design and solution implementation.
• Creates best-of-class security architecture designs and patterns for LPL using reference architectures and standards.
• Collaborates with Data and Enterprise Architects on securing data with masking and tokenization.
• Documents security requirements for secure design and build of solutions.
• Identifies cybersecurity issues and risks across domains and partners to provide solutions.
• Develops and approves cybersecurity standards and ensures controls meet requirements.
• Participates in security advisory boards and provides architecture review and ownership for solutions.
• Analyzes threats and implements mitigation plans; communicates risks to business units.

Skills

Information security

M&A security

Security controls & standards

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Ansible

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking an AVP, Security Architect in Austin, TX to lead security architecture across data, cloud, and on-prem environments. You will collaborate with Development, Operations, Business units, and Enterprise Architecture to secure and monitor environments and design defensible architectures to mitigate risks.

The ideal candidate has extensive information security experience, strong design and leadership skills, and a track record of driving security across complex initiatives.