Principal Security Solutions Architect , AWS Financial Services

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a specialized Security Solutions Architect in New York to support its Financial Services customers. You will help these institutions address security, risk, and compliance challenges while leveraging AWS. This role requires strong knowledge of security threats and the ability to build relationships with executives.

Key responsibilities include participating in architecture discussions, developing technical content, and educating auditors. Candidates should possess a deep security background and business acumen.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of security, risk, and compliance in cloud environments.
• Experience in working with financial institutions.
• Ability to build and maintain executive-level relationships.

Responsibilities

• Identify and tackle security and compliance questions for financial institutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions focused on security concerns.
• Educate auditors on third-party supplier assessments.
• Develop high-quality technical content for customer deployment.
• Assess and address security knowledge gaps in teams.

Skills

Security knowledge

Business acumen

Interpersonal skills

Risk management

Job description

Description

Are you passionate about the impact of cloud computing and AI on Financial Services, with a special focus on security? Do you have a unique combination of broad and deep security knowledge, coupled with business acumen and strong interpersonal skills?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a specialized Security Solutions Architect to work with our largest Financial Services customers. In this vital role, you will help customers achieve their business goals on AWS by identifying and tackling major security, risk, and compliance questions from stakeholders within financial institutions, and by building and maintaining CIO/CISO/CRO and executive‑level relationships with policy approvers and owners. You will work directly with customer security, audit, risk and compliance teams to help them understand how to confidently utilize AWS, identify risk and design controls, set up ongoing assurance, and establish automated compliance.

Key job responsibilities

• Help overcome barriers to AWS adoption in Financial Services accounts by identifying and tackling major security, risk and compliance questions from stakeholders within financial institutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions to work through risk, security, and compliance concerns.
• Work with customer stakeholders to identify controls, as well as educating auditors and examiners by helping them understand how to assess third‑party supplier arrangements and conduct audits when AWS is in scope.
• Build and maintain executive‑level relationships with CIO/CISO/CRO and policy approvers and owners.
• Develop high‑quality technical content, such as white papers and reference architectures, that can be used by our customers to assist them in deploying secure and compliant cloud‑based solutions.
• Assess security and controls knowledge across AWS sales and solutions architecture teams and develop plans to address gaps.