Principal Security Architect – Data Protection and Workplace Security

Ally; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ally seeks a senior Enterprise Security Architect to lead the strategy, design, and governance of our security architecture across data protection and workplace security domains.

You will drive target-state architecture for data security, Snowflake platforms, email security, and endpoint protection, ensuring alignment with business priorities and regulatory requirements while enabling agile delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in information security or related technology disciplines
• 5+ years in security architecture at enterprise level
• Experience leading architecture strategy across multiple domains

Responsibilities

• Define and govern enterprise security architecture strategy across data protection and workplace security
• Provide leadership across data security, enterprise data platforms, and endpoint security domains
• Drive architecture governance and ensure security requirements are embedded in initiatives
• Lead threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk assessments
• Communicate strategy and risk posture to senior stakeholders

Skills

Security architecture

Enterprise security

Data protection

Threat modeling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS/IS or related field

Tools

Snowflake security

EDR/XDR tools

Job description

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule

Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

Lead the strategy, design, and governance of enterprise security architecture across data protection and workplace security domains.

This role is accountable for defining the target-state security architecture and driving execution across critical capabilities, including data security, enterprise data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), email security, and endpoint protection.

Ensure security solutions are aligned with business priorities, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management objectives.

This role partners across security engineering, infrastructure, workplace technology, data platform, architecture, risk, and compliance organizations to drive consistent, scalable, and resilient security outcomes protecting enterprise users, devices, communications, and sensitive data while enabling business agility.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The Work Itself

Key Responsibilities

• Own and define the strategic roadmap, standards, and target-state architecture for data protection and workplace security capabilities
• Provide enterprise-wide architectural leadership across data security, enterprise data platforms, email security, and endpoint security domains
• Enforce architecture governance to ensure security requirements are embedded in business and technology initiatives
• Drive development and adoption of reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation standards across the enterprise
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, workplace technology, and data platform leaders to enable secure-by-design delivery and lifecycle management of security capabilities
• Continuously assess security posture, identify systemic control gaps, and lead remediation strategies and capability maturity improvements
• Serve as a senior subject matter expert for data protection and workplace security technologies, including DLP, data classification, encryption, masking, endpoint protection, EDR/XDR, secure email controls, and device hardening
• Lead architectural strategy for securing modern data platforms, including Snowflake, data lakes, and data warehouse environments
• Define enterprise patterns for secure data access, protection, monitoring, and governance across data platforms
• Oversee vendor strategy, product evaluations, and architectural due diligence to ensure alignment with long-term security strategy
• Partner with risk, privacy, legal, compliance, and incident response leadership to ensure control alignment and operational effectiveness
• Lead and influence threat modeling, architecture review processes, and security risk assessments
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security policies, regulatory obligations, and industry control frameworks
• Communicate architecture strategy, roadmaps, and risk posture to executive stakeholders and senior leadership

The Skills You Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field(s) of study or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in information security, cybersecurity, or related technology disciplines
• Minimum 5 years of experience in security architecture, with demonstrated experience at an enterprise or domain level
• Proven experience leading architecture strategy across multiple domains, including:
  • Data Security and Data Protection
  • Enterprise data platform security (e.g., Snowflake)
  • Data lake and data warehouse security