What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Security Architect position at SoFi?
The role
SoFi Cybersecurity Architecture team assists and partners with engineering and product and design organizations. Our mission is to build secure products and services delivered to our members and customers. We deploy strong Product Security practices, compliance frameworks, and design patterns while collaborating with product owners, engineers, and executives to ensure new products and features meet the highest security standards and regulations.
As a Senior Cloud Security Architect , you will be responsible for the end-to-end security architecture of our platforms, products, and services. You will work in conjunction with security, compliance, and risk teams to make decisions and help lead initiatives to ensure timely delivery of security solutions that support our business objectives.
The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, balancing the right level of security with business objectives, and working to creatively solve complex Product Security related problems in an agile environment.
What you’ll do :
- Be an Cybersecurity architect evangelist who can translate security concepts into language that is meaningful to our product teams and engineering. Integrate new and existing security tools, standards, and processes into the development life cycle.
- Advise on the secure design of product and application architecture; communicate security requirements with well defined user stories and initiatives and epics.
- Perform security design reviews and threat modeling for infrastructure and application related projects.
- Experience in conducting security reviews and assessments of banking applications and platforms to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with security standards.
- Experience in reviewing and securing APIs to ensure proper authentication, authorization, and data validation
- Partner with development teams to review new features and provide security specific feedback.
- Analyze and evaluate cloud security trends, vulnerabilities and provide ongoing feedback to product management about delivery of best practices.
- Develop Security test plans for new products. Design security solution blueprints that meet the system needs. Automate security checklists and implement them as "security as code" using cloud services and CI / CD components.
- Review new features / product offerings and perform threat modeling in a continuous delivery agile environment.
- Conducts business-level security architecture assessments to evaluate existing security program and cloud application architecture, identify weaknesses, and make recommendations.
- Work with our risk and compliance organization to provide input to security risk impact assessment. Contribute to security policy, standards, and guidelines related to Information Security.
- Work with engineering teams, to ensure that application security risks are effectively identified using market leading tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, etc) and appropriately addressed while maintaining a balance between security & usability.
- Architects, designs, prioritizes, coordinates, and communicates the security technologies necessary to ensure a highly secure yet usable computing environment.
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Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate’s experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
Pay range : $124,800.00 - $234,000.00
Payment frequency : Annual
This role is also eligible for a bonus, long term incentives and competitive benefits. More information about our employee benefits can be found in the link above.
Salary : $124,800 - $234,000
