Security Architect — Cloud, AI & Zero-Trust Leader

LPL Financial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 153,000 - 256,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking a Principal Security Architect to lead security design across cloud, on-prem, and data security architectures. The role partners with Dev, Ops, and EA teams to secure environments while enabling business growth.

You will drive threat modeling, risk assessment, and secure DevOps practices, with extensive experience in AWS, OAuth, JWT, and API security guiding architecture decisions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in Secure Architecture Designs.
• 8+ years of experience with information security controls, guidelines, and standards (e.g., ISO27000 series, OWASP, CSA CCM, CIS 20 Critical Security Controls, SOX, and NIST).

Responsibilities

• Secure APIs by implementing robust access control mechanisms, OAuth, JWT, and configuring API gateway security to ensure authenticated and authorized access.
• Develop reusable security design patterns addressing common cybersecurity challenges, ensuring consistency and best practices across diverse technology stacks and business domains.
• Craft clear, actionable security standards and policies, aligning them with industry best practices and regulatory requirements while ensuring adaptability to emerging technologies.
• Lead the design and innovation of security architectures, integrating advanced technologies to protect against evolving threats while enabling business agility and growth.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to align security initiatives with business objectives, ensuring broad support and integration at all levels.
• Expertise in cybersecurity frameworks, network security, cloud security, identity management, and encryption, with proficiency in implementing zero-trust architectures and secure DevOps practices across diverse IT environments.
• Threat modeling, risk assessment, and vulnerability management, coupled with experience in SIEM implementation, log analysis, and incident response in complex enterprise settings.
• Conduct thorough threat analysis using intelligence and analytics to identify and mitigate potential security risks proactively, reducing business impact.
• Implement and oversee a risk management framework, balancing security investments with business needs to protect assets while supporting growth and innovation.
• Securing machine learning models against adversarial attacks, ensuring data privacy in AI training sets, and implementing ethical AI principles in security applications.
• Develop secure AI/ML pipelines, including model integrity verification, secure feature engineering, and anomaly detection in AI-driven systems.

Skills

Secure Architecture

Cloud Security

Threat Modeling

SIEM

OAuth/JWT

Zero Trust

API Security

Incident Response

AWS Security

CISSP/CISSP-like

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

AWS Core Services

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Ansible

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking a Principal Security Architect to lead security design across cloud, on-prem, and data security architectures. The role partners with Dev, Ops, and EA teams to secure environments while enabling business growth.

You will drive threat modeling, risk assessment, and secure DevOps practices, with extensive experience in AWS, OAuth, JWT, and API security guiding architecture decisions.