Enterprise Security Architect: Java & Design Authority

Tech Mirrors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors seeks a Security Architect to own security architecture and design assurance for enterprise web applications and services. You will define target-state designs, establish reusable secure-design patterns, and act as the design authority for remediation across engineering teams.

The role emphasizes architectural judgement, trust boundaries, identity models, and data-protection design, rather than tool operation or testing. This is a contract position based in Austin, TX.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in application or product security, including design authority roles.
• Experience identifying design-level weaknesses and adopting target-state designs.
• Experience authoring reference architectures or secure-design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Review security architecture of enterprise applications and services.
• Perform threat modelling with engineering teams and derive review plans.
• Identify design-level weaknesses not surfaced by automated tooling.
• Review authentication/authorization architecture (OAuth2/OIDC, token validation).
• Review data-protection design and logging hygiene.
• Define security review standards and scoring models.
• Mentor engineers in architecture-level security review.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modelling

OAuth2/OIDC

Java/Spring Security

Multi-tenant security

Cloud security

Kubernetes security

OWASP ASVS

Strong written communication

Tools

SAST

SCA

Secrets scanning

Job description

Tech Mirrors seeks a Security Architect to own security architecture and design assurance for enterprise web applications and services. You will define target-state designs, establish reusable secure-design patterns, and act as the design authority for remediation across engineering teams.

The role emphasizes architectural judgement, trust boundaries, identity models, and data-protection design, rather than tool operation or testing. This is a contract position based in Austin, TX.