Security Architect

April 14

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Empower is a financial services company that provides personalized investment and advice solutions to help individuals achieve financial freedom throughout their lives. It offers a range of wealth management services including private client investment management, socially responsible investing, retirement planning, and personal strategy services tailored for various investment needs. With innovative tools such as the Empower Personal Dashboard, clients can consolidate their financial information, plan for retirement, and make informed money decisions.

10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

📋 Description

• Drive security innovation and play a key role in the definition, maintenance evolution and advocacy of the security posture • Partner with business and technology teams to define security designs that meet security requirements and enable business objectives • Create, maintain and document security architectures & design patterns to be used by technology teams • Develop relationships, repeatable processes, and resources to usher security champions in the company • Perform threat-modeling as required to substantiate recommendations & designs • Participate in the development and maintenance of security policy, standards & reference materials • Review and contribute to infrastructure-as-code representations of architecture changes and designs

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in information security and/or IT risk management • Extensive experience designing & building secure cloud-native solutions, especially in Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Strong foundation in cybersecurity landscape, especially in identity & access management, network access control and secure configuration management • Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles & experience reviewing infrastructure configurations/changes in this format (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.) • Strong technical foundations in modern application/microservice architectures & related technologies (e.g., Containers, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, RESTful/gRPC APIs, etc.) • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience • Professional certifications such as: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), Certified Secure Software Engineer, SANS/GIAC Certificates, or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%) • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - internal networks that rally around common interest, experiences and identities.