Cyber Security Architect

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Comprehensive Medical Coverage (Health

Parental Leaves

401K Plan

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Jersey City, NJ seeks a Solution Architect with deep expertise in Cyber Security, Application Security, and enterprise security architecture. You will design secure architectures for web apps, APIs, and cloud-native platforms, and lead threat modeling and risk-based design reviews.

Responsibilities include defining security requirements for APIs and microservices, implementing OAuth 2.0 and SAML patterns, and embedding security controls across CI/CD

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of secure architectures for web apps, APIs and microservices.
• Experience with threat modeling and risk-based design reviews.
• Hands-on security controls across CI/CD and DevSecOps.
• Familiar with cloud platforms and security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Define application-security principles, standards and reusable secure-design patterns.
• Lead security architecture assessments, threat modeling and risk-based design reviews.
• Define security requirements for APIs, microservices, Kubernetes and cloud-native apps.
• Establish authentication/authorization patterns using OAuth2.0, OIDC, SAML, RBAC/ABAC.
• Embed security controls across CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows.
• Review vulnerabilities and recommend remediation or compensating controls.
• Partner with Security Operations, Engineering, Cloud, and Compliance teams.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote secure-by-design adoption.

Skills

Artificial Intelligence

Application Security

Cyber Security

IAM

Threat Modeling

OAuth 2.0/OIDC

SAST/DAST/DAST

Kubernetes/Containers

Cloud Security (GCP/Azure/AWS)

Zero Trust

Education

Bachelor of Computer Information Systems

Job description

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 10+ years of IT experience with strong expertise in Cyber Security, Application Security and enterprise security architecture.
• Proven experience designing secure architectures for web applications, APIs, microservices, Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native platforms.
• Deep knowledge of OWASP Top 10, OWASP ASVS, CWE, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, secure coding practices and Zero Trust principles.
• Strong threat-modeling experience using STRIDE or equivalent methods, with the ability to translate threats into preventive and detective controls.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, MFA, RBAC/ABAC, PKI, encryption, secrets management and key management.
• Strong understanding of LLM and GenAI architectures, including foundation models, prompting, embeddings, vector databases, RAG, AI agents, tool/function calling and multi-agent systems.
• Experience embedding SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container scanning and Infrastructure-as-Code scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong security architecture experience in at least one major cloud platform: Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Hands-on familiarity with tools such as Snyk, Checkmarx, Veracode, Burp Suite, SonarQube, GitHub Advanced Security, Wiz, Prisma Cloud or Microsoft Defender.
• Ability to conduct architecture reviews, identify risk, define compensating controls and guide engineering teams through remediation.
• Experience establishing enterprise security standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, guardrails and architecture decision records.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define application-security principles, standards, reference architectures and reusable secure-design patterns.
• Lead security architecture assessments, threat modeling, attack-surface analysis and risk-based design reviews.
• Define security requirements for APIs, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, databases, messaging platforms and cloud-native applications.
• Establish authentication and authorization patterns using OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, RBAC, ABAC, workload identity and least privilege.
• Embed security controls and quality gates across CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows.
• Define controls for encryption, key and certificate management, secrets management, data protection and privileged access.
• Review vulnerabilities and architecture findings; recommend remediation, risk acceptance criteria or compensating controls.
• Partner with Security Operations, Engineering, Cloud, Enterprise Architecture, Risk, Privacy and Compliance teams.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote secure-by-design adoption through architecture guidance and technical enablement.

TCS Employee Benefits Summary:

• Discretionary Annual Incentive.
• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Medical & Health, Dental & Vision, Disability Planning & Insurance, Pet Insurance Plans.
• Family Support: Maternal & Parental Leaves.
• Insurance Options: Aut& Home Insurance, Identity Theft Protection.
• Convenience & Professional Growth: Commuter Benefits & Certification & Training Reimbursement.
• Time Off: Vacation, Time Off, Sick Leave & Holidays.
• Legal & Fi nancial Assistance: Legal Assistance, 401K Plan, Performance Bonus, College Fund, Student Loan Refinancing.

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Salary Range-$180,000-$200,000 a year

Location

Jersey City, NJ

Function

TECHNOLOGY

Role

Solution Architect

ID

438834

Skills

Artificial Intelligence | Application Security | Cyber Security | IAM

Salary Range

$180,000 - $200,000

Desired Candidate Profile

Qualifications

Bachelor of Computer Information Systems