Software Security Architect

American Fidelity; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

American Fidelity seeks an experienced security‑focused software engineer to embed strong secure coding practices across our development teams in Oklahoma City. You will craft architectures and champion the secure SDLC, ensuring projects meet security requirements from conception through deployment.

You will lead ongoing security education, conduct code and design reviews, and coordinate with governance, risk, and internal audit to strengthen secure development practices company‑wide.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in secure coding practices and secure SDLC.
• Experience evaluating and using vulnerability scanning and penetration testing tools.
• Ability to perform code reviews and security architecture reviews.
• Familiarity with vendor software due diligence and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectures and designs for secure software solutions.
• Lead continuing security education for software teams via trainings.
• Perform security-focused design reviews on new systems.
• Collaborate with governance, risk, and audit on secure development practices.

Job description

• Provide deep expertise on secure coding practices. Regularly provide continuing education to the software department regarding secure coding practices in the form of lunch n learns, formal classes, and secure coding courses.
• Evaluate, implement, test, and administer security vulnerability and penetration testing tools. Interpret results from tests and collaborate with project teams to remediate any vulnerabilities found.
• Working with project teams, provide architectures and engineering designs for new software solutions that help mitigate possible security vulnerabilities. Perform due diligence from a software security aspect on any vendor supported software being considered by the organization.

Additional Job Description:

1. Evaluate, implement, test, and administer security vulnerability and penetration testing tools. Interpret results from tests and collaborate with project teams, security, risk management, compliance, internal audit, privacy officer, and other interested parties to remediate any vulnerabilities found.

2. Regularly provide continuing education to the software department regarding secure coding practices in the form of lunch n learns, formal classes, secure coding courses, and team collaboration sessions. Keep abreast and keep software department informed of current security trends, new vulnerabilities or breaches in the industry, secure coding techniques, and new tools to help mitigate vulnerabilities. Document key components for writing secure code.

3. Regularly perform code reviews for all project teams to help improve software security. Collaborate with, assist, and train developers on determining security vulnerabilities in code, and make changes to the code as necessary to remediate vulnerabilities. Perform architecture and design reviews from a security perspective on all new systems projects and on projects containing architecturally significant changes.

4. Provide architecture diagrams and document design patterns for new software solutions that help mitigate possible security vulnerabilities. Participate in any divisional or departmental discussions related to defining or building new secure infrastructures or data designs.

5. Perform due diligence from a software security aspect on any vendor supported software being considered by the organization.

6. Participate in incident response activities to assist with identification, exposure, and mitigation of potential breaches. Additionally collaborate with IT Governance, Risk, & Compliance area and Internal Audit to conduct audits on secure software development practices, and to answer audit questions on software security from internal and external auditors.