Strategic Security Architecture Lead

Eliassen Group; Burbank (CA); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Director, Security Architecture & Engagement to advise business, product, and engineering leaders on strategic cybersecurity. Hybrid role with four days onsite in Burbank, CA, driving secure-by-design initiatives and enterprise security maturity across a global technology landscape.

You will lead security architects and engineers, influence executive audiences, and enable risk-based decisions while advancing security standards, patterns, and policies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of technology leadership experience.
• Trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong enterprise security architecture experience.
• Experience in Application Security, Secure SDLC, Data Security, and related areas.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary cybersecurity advisor to business, technology, product, and engineering leaders.
• Build trusted relationships and provide practical, business-focused security guidance.
• Translate complex security and architecture requirements into actionable decisions.
• Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk evaluations.
• Develop architecture standards, reference architectures, and security policies.
• Provide leadership across Zero Trust, IAM, Data Security, and DevSecOps.
• Oversee cloud security initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Skills

Security architecture

DevOps

Executive communication

Leadership

Cloud security

Zero Trust

IAM

Data security

DevSecOps

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab

Splunk

Vault

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Director, Security Architecture & Engagement to advise business, product, and engineering leaders on strategic cybersecurity. Hybrid role with four days onsite in Burbank, CA, driving secure-by-design initiatives and enterprise security maturity across a global technology landscape.

You will lead security architects and engineers, influence executive audiences, and enable risk-based decisions while advancing security standards, patterns, and policies.