Senior Security Controls Architect (Remote)

Kemper Corporation; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

PTO

401K

Tuition assistance

Continuing education

Employee discounts

Job summary

Kemper Corporation is seeking a Technical Security Controls Principal to join our Cybersecurity team. You will lead as an enterprise SME for control architecture, validation, and continuous assurance across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and logging domains.

The role requires principal-level judgment, deep technical knowledge, and influence; you will mentor analysts and engineers and translate regulatory requirements into practical controls.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, CS, IT, engineering, information systems, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience.
• Ability to review configurations, logs, data, architecture, evidence and control logic.
• Experience designing technical control tests and validating operating effectiveness.
• Ability to automate evidence collection via scripting, APIs, analytics, or telemetry.
• Strong understanding of cloud, identity, endpoint, network, data protection, and logging/security-monitoring patterns.
• Translate regulatory and framework requirements into technically meaningful control objectives.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise technical security-control patterns, standards, and design expectations across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and logging domains.
• Assess whether controls are technically designed and operating as intended using configuration review, data validation, sampling, walkthroughs, and independent challenge.
• Develop technical test procedures and evidence standards that move beyond questionnaire or document-only assurance.
• Build or sponsor automation, API integrations, telemetry-based analytics, and continuous-control-monitoring use cases.
• Translate regulatory and framework requirements into technically meaningful control objectives and identify controls that are administratively present but ineffective.
• Lead complex control-gap analysis, remediation design, exception/risk-acceptance evaluation, and closure validation.
• Act as a senior technical advisor to Cybersecurity, GRC, Internal Audit, technology teams, and executives on control effectiveness.
• Mentor analysts and engineers and establish consistent control-engineering practices.

Skills

Security architecture

Control validation

Automation & scripting

Cloud security

Identity & access security

Logging & monitoring

Cybersecurity experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Kemper Corporation is seeking a Technical Security Controls Principal to join our Cybersecurity team. You will lead as an enterprise SME for control architecture, validation, and continuous assurance across identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and logging domains.

The role requires principal-level judgment, deep technical knowledge, and influence; you will mentor analysts and engineers and translate regulatory requirements into practical controls.