Senior Security Architect - Product Enablement (Remote)

mariner-careers; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

mariner-careers is seeking a senior security architecture partner to guide business, product, data, and tech teams in designing practical safeguards across SaaS platforms, APIs, data flows, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows.

You will shape secure designs early in development, translate security needs into tradeoffs, and mentor teams while maintaining delivery momentum. The role emphasizes collaboration and practical risk-based decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years across security architecture, cloud or SaaS security, solutions architecture, software engineering, or SRE/DevOps, including at least five years in a dedicated security role.
• Demonstrated experience securing distributed systems that use SaaS, APIs, integrations, identity services, and third parties.
• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar architectures, assess material risks, and recommend actionable controls.
• Experience partnering with business, product, and engineering stakeholders and explaining security tradeoffs in context.
• Strong systems thinking, communication, facilitation, and technical judgment.

Responsibilities

• Review end-to-end system designs to identify trust boundaries, sensitive data movement, and likely failure modes.
• Facilitate architecture and threat reviews, recording decisions and remaining risks.
• Create and maintain reusable secure design patterns for SaaS, APIs, integrations, credentials, authorization, data movement, and AI workflows.
• Join product and technology planning early, translating security needs into workable designs and tradeoffs.
• Advise on vendor assessments and SaaS selection, and collaborate with platform, identity, and infrastructure teams on automated controls and observability.
• Support AI product security, enterprise data initiatives, technology onboarding, and security education through office hours and training.

Skills

Security architecture

Cloud security

SaaS security

Solutions architecture

Software engineering

SRE/DevOps

Stakeholder communication

Technical judgment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

mariner-careers is seeking a senior security architecture partner to guide business, product, data, and tech teams in designing practical safeguards across SaaS platforms, APIs, data flows, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows.

You will shape secure designs early in development, translate security needs into tradeoffs, and mentor teams while maintaining delivery momentum. The role emphasizes collaboration and practical risk-based decisions.