Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Engineering/Architecture

Job Title
: Sr Manager, Security Engineering & Architecture

Type:
Direct-Hire

Location
: Candidate must work 5 days onsite per week in one of the following offices: Irving, TX; Miami, FL; or Bentonville, AR

Summary
: Our client is seeking a Senior Manager of Security Engineering & Architecture to lead and elevate their enterprise security program with a strong focus on network and endpoint security. This role is primarily people leadership, guiding a high-performing team of six senior engineers and architects to drive innovation, alignment, and best practices across the organization. This role will also include some hands-on engineering work, providing deep technical expertise during critical escalations. The ideal candidate will define and execute the security architecture and technical vision for both cloud and on-premises environments, operating at the intersection of business and technology to deliver scalable, modern security solutions that strengthen the company's overall security posture.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of six senior cybersecurity engineers and architects, providing strategic direction, mentorship, and technical guidance to drive performance, collaboration, and professional growth.
• Define and execute the enterprise security architecture strategy across cloud and on-prem environments, ensuring robust network and endpoint security controls.
• Serve as the final escalation point for complex or high-severity security incidents.
• Develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology, and threat drivers.
• Collaborate with the governance and sourcing team to develop security strategy and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices.
• Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts (models, patterns, templates, and standards) that can be used to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations.
• Partners with enterprise security & governance teams to assess and reduce cloud security risks
• Provides clear written and verbal consulting to projects about security architecture and risk management.
• Champions the implementation of industry leading security standards and best practices across the enterprise.
• Provides advice, analysis, and recommendation on security products in the security space.
• Develop standards and practices for data encryption and tokenization within the organization based on the organization's data classification criteria.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and other security reviews of systems, and prioritize remediation based on the risk profile of the assets
• Coordinate with DevOps teams to advocate secure coding practices and escalate concerns related to poor coding practices.
• Participate in security assessments of existing and prospective vendors, especially those with which the organization shares confidential, restricted, regulated or other protected data.
• Support the testing and validation of internal security controls.
• Coordinate with operational and facility-management teams to assess the security of operational technology.
• Work with architecture office to establish multi-cloud cybersecurity architecture with a focus on proactive threat detection, security control enforcement and incident response.
• Interface with enterprise and domain architects to develop secure solutions.
• Collaborate with SOC teams to define and enforce security standards.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity
• 3+ years as a skilled people leader overseeing a team of security professionals across engineering and architecture
• Expertise in Network Security and Endpoint security
• Experience working across various EDRs, firewalls, etc. with experience doing hands on implementations, deploymens, and enhancements
• Skilled in talent development, mentorship, and empathetic performance management.
• Willingness to innovate and take calculated risks, enabling teams to explore new techniques for impactful change.
• In-depth understanding of cloud cybersecurity standards, frameworks and best practices.
• Experience in identifying gaps in security architecture.
• An ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in an easily understood, authoritative, and actionable manner.
• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS or Azure across SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS models and various environments (Public, Private, Hybrid)
• Bachelors or master's degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• High preference for candidates who hold cybersecurity related certifications.