Chief Product Security Architect

Synchrony; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 260,000; Full time

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Job summary

Synchrony is seeking a VP, Product Security Architect to provide enterprise-level product security architecture leadership across Synchrony’s application and SaaS ecosystem. This role operates at L13 scope—setting direction, defining standards, and driving adoption at scale—while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to embed security into product strategy and modern software delivery.

The VP will lead the definition of an Application Security Blueprint and will influence

Qualifications

• 10+ years in security architecture/engineering focused on application security.
• Enterprise influence: standards, cross-team adoption, stakeholder alignment.
• Strong knowledge of authentication/authorization, cryptography, secrets management, logging.
• Experience leading threat modeling and producing architecture artifacts.
• Knowledge of API security and OWASP risks; translate risks into patterns.
• Excellent communication to engineers and senior leaders.
• Experience securing SaaS apps including SSO/federation and data isolation.
• Experience with service-to-service security, mTLS, policy-as-code.
• Experience operationalizing security standards into engineering consumables.
• Strong DevSecOps, CI/CD security controls, supply chain security.
• Travel ability.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for the Product Security Architecture function, establishing the strategic vision, operating model, and multi-year roadmap for application and product security across the enterprise.
• Set product security architecture direction for assigned portfolios, aligning security architecture decisions with Synchrony technology strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory expectations.
• Own and evolve the Application Security Blueprint: enterprise application security standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and guardrails that enable consistent secure engineering across teams.
• Serve as a strategic partner to product and engineering leadership, influencing roadmaps and operating models to ensure security is built-in and delivery teams can move quickly with well-defined paved roads.
• Lead architecture governance for product/application security: establish review criteria and decision frameworks; perform design reviews and approve/drive remediation plans; manage exceptions with documented risk acceptance, compensating controls, and time-bound closure.
• Drive threat modeling at scale by defining methodology and minimum expectations, and by facilitating modeling for high-risk initiatives—explicitly documenting trust boundaries, data flows, abuse cases, and security requirements.
• Define and standardize API security architectures (north-south and east-west), including authentication/authorization, token strategy, schema and input validation, anti-automation protections, and rate limiting/throttling patterns.
• Establish security architecture patterns for distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and service-to-service communications, including workload identity, authorization, mTLS, secrets management, and policy enforcement.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

API security

DevSecOps

Communication skills

Leadership

SaaS security

Travel willingness

Job description

Synchrony is seeking a VP, Product Security Architect to provide enterprise-level product security architecture leadership across Synchrony’s application and SaaS ecosystem. This role operates at L13 scope—setting direction, defining standards, and driving adoption at scale—while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to embed security into product strategy and modern software delivery.

The VP will lead the definition of an Application Security Blueprint and will influence