Senior Cybersecurity Architect: Cloud, Crypto, Shift-Left

Santander Consumer USA Inc.; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 109,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Santander Consumer USA Inc. is seeking a Sr. Associate, Cybersecurity Architect to design, govern and improve secure architectures across enterprise platforms within a regulated financial environment.

The role requires turning risk into actionable design requirements, partnering with engineering, product and business teams. The position emphasizes shift-left security, encryption strategy, and regulatory compliance with major frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 5+ years of architecture experience in financial services or similarly regulated industries.
• Cyber Security experience preferred and experience in a shift-left security model embedded with development teams.
• Deep expertise in encryption technologies including PKI governance, HSM deployment, certificate lifecycle automation, and key management systems.
• Experience designing secure architectures in cloud environments (AWS mainly).
• Proven experience conducting threat modeling and architecture risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Conduct threat modeling, security design reviews, and lead cybersecurity architecture risk assessments (ISARs).
• Define and maintain enterprise security architecture aligned to business strategy, policies and reference architecture for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem environments
• Embed security controls early in the project lifecycle under a shift-left model with engineering, product, and business teams.
• Architect and oversee encryption strategies for data at rest, in transit, and in use including PKI, HSM and Certificate lifecycle processes.
• Establish cryptographic key management standards and oversee key custody models.
• Ensure architectural compliance with regulatory and supervisory expectations.
• Support regulatory examinations, audits, and control validation activities.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Encryption technologies

PKI governance

HSM deployment

Cloud security (AWS)

Regulatory compliance

Risk assessment

TLS/mTLS/IPSec

Security governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent

Job description

Santander Consumer USA Inc. is seeking a Sr. Associate, Cybersecurity Architect to design, govern and improve secure architectures across enterprise platforms within a regulated financial environment.

The role requires turning risk into actionable design requirements, partnering with engineering, product and business teams. The position emphasizes shift-left security, encryption strategy, and regulatory compliance with major frameworks.