Director, Cyber Strategy & Architecture

vnbcareers; Morristown (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

The Bank in Morristown, NJ seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Architect to define and drive the enterprise security vision, architecture, and roadmap across applications, cloud, network, and data domains. You will translate cyber risk for executive leadership and the Board into clear business decisions while shaping secure, scalable solutions.

You will establish enterprise security standards, lead architectural reviews, and act as a trusted advisor in incidents, industry forums, and technology

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or Computer Science
• Minimum 10 years of IT and information security experience
• Strong written and verbal communication and leadership skills
• Knowledge of security architecture, threat modeling, and risk management
• Experience with cloud security (Azure and AWS) and securing cloud apps
• Understanding OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and adversarial ML risks

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve the Bank's enterprise cyber security vision and architecture roadmap.
• Advise executive leadership translating cyber risk into business decisions.
• Establish security standards, reference designs, and scalable reuse across initiatives.
• Define risk thresholds and guide innovation and architectural reviews.
• Lead during cyber incidents and shape resilient operating models.
• Represent the Bank as a cyber thought leader and mentor senior talent.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Risk management

Cloud security

Azure

AWS

LLM threat modeling

Application security

Communication

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity or Computer Science

Job description

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Set and evolve the Bank's enterprise cyber security vision, strategy, and architecture roadmap, providing enduring direction across applications, infrastructure, cloud, network, and data domains.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to executive leadership and the Board, translating complex cyber risk into clear business, regulatory, and risk based decisions.
• Establish enterprise security architecture standards, principles, and reference designs, enabling secure integration, data exchange, and scalable reuse across initiatives and partners.
• Act as the authority on emerging technology and cyber risk, defining acceptable risk thresholds, guiding innovation and POCs, and conducting architectural reviews for new products, platforms, and integrations.
• Provide senior leadership during cyber incidents and technology crises, serving as an escalation point while shaping resilient, sustainable operating models.
• Represent the Bank as a cyber thought leader, engaging fintechs, startups, and partners, participating in industry forums, and mentoring senior technical talent to strengthen long term capability.

Required Skills

• Expert knowledge in defining security architecture requirements, threat modeling and risk management.
• Expert knowledge of enterprise, application, and network security architecture mechanisms, components and integration with technology components and operations.
• Strong knowledge of application security, web and application design, databases, operating systems, hypervisors, IP networks, microservices, container technology, system integration technologies and securing cloud-based applications.
• Expert knowledge of cloud computing technologies including Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.
• AI/LLM threat modeling (prompt injection, data poisoning, model theft).
• Securing ML pipelines (training → inference → deployment).
• Understanding OWASP Top 10 for LLMs.
• Adversarial ML risks (evasion, poisoning, model inversion) wrap up.
• Strong understanding of banking regulations and third-party risk.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate building positive working relationships at all levels within the bank.
• Ability to define long-term cyber strategy, influence executive decision-making, and communicate complex technical issues clearly.
• Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to delegate assignments and deal with "crisis-type" situations.

Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science or related field and a minimum of 10 years' Information Technology and Information Security experience.

Preferred Experience

• Master's Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field.
• CISSP, CISM, GSEC, CRISC, or other relevant professional certifications.