Senior Information Security Architect – Cloud & Payments

Capital One National Association; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One is seeking a Senior Manager, GPN Information Security Office Consultant to advise on initiatives and programs, balancing pragmatic risk with security excellence across Global Payment Networks.

You will collaborate with cyber teams and architects to shape cyber architecture, support modernization efforts, and guide risk reduction in cloud and on‑premise environments. Strong leadership, stakeholder communication, and adaptability in a fast‑moving environment are essential for success.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma, GED or equivalent certification.
• At least 6 years of cybersecurity/IT experience.
• At least 5 years guiding cyber security concepts.
• At least 5 years performing cyber security risk assessments or architecture reviews.
• At least 4 years of experience with cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Act as a central Information Security point of contact for the Global Payment Networks line of business.
• Coordinate and execute proactive Information Security consulting to the business and technology teams covering Infrastructure Security, Resiliency, Data Security, Network Architecture and Design, and User Access Management.
• Serve as an expert in Capital One’s Information Security capabilities, solutions, policies, procedures and standards.
• Collaborating with enterprise cyber teams and tech architects in defining and driving the cyber architecture strategy and guiding principles for the architecting and designing of the modern platforms.
• Support security architecture and implementation needs for technology modernization efforts.
• Overseeing all cyber related dependencies across the multiple components being built for the modernization effort.
• Influence customers to leverage security capabilities and solutions to shift and integrate security to the left in the development processes
• Escalate and manage cyber security risk.
• Provide ad-hoc support on special Information Security hot topics for the business
• Provide regular updates to executive leadership with your line of business on the overall Information Security health and risk environment
• Work with line of business leadership to anticipate their objectives and needs to better serve the line of business
• Support the team on collectively mapping technologies to a standardized framework in order to identify and execute on best practices in risk reduction through the configuration of cybersecurity tools and platforms.
• Support the development, modification, and use of capability, risk, or threat classification frameworks and standardization methodologies to facilitate the conduct of correlative capability, maturity, and effectiveness evaluations.
• Support data validation and communications on the impact of identified operational, compliance, process, control, and tooling gaps and potential remediation courses of action to multiple audiences, including leadership, to support the enhancement of their cybersecurity postures.

Skills

Information Security

Cloud security

Leadership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Capital One is seeking a Senior Manager, GPN Information Security Office Consultant to advise on initiatives and programs, balancing pragmatic risk with security excellence across Global Payment Networks.

You will collaborate with cyber teams and architects to shape cyber architecture, support modernization efforts, and guide risk reduction in cloud and on‑premise environments. Strong leadership, stakeholder communication, and adaptability in a fast‑moving environment are essential for success.