Principal Security Architect

Bank of America

Principal Security Architect at Bank of America driving cybersecurity architecture and strategy. Collaborating across global teams to define and deliver scalable security solutions.

Posted 4/18/2026full-timeDenver • Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $156,500 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define solution intent and architectural vision in partnership with senior business and technology leaders, ensuring alignment with GIS policy and enterprise standards.
Collaborate with senior architects and product managers to develop and execute security roadmaps that deliver on strategic outcomes.
Advise senior executives on security risks, technology gaps, and architectural trade-offs; develop secure solutions through domain expertise, experimentation, and proofs of concept.
Lead the evolution of enterprise-level security architecture, ensuring designs are secure, resilient, and adaptable to emerging requirements.
Partner with governance and control owners to resolve policy issues and strengthen standards and best practices.
Mentor and guide other GIS architects, driving consistency, reuse, and adoption of architectural patterns across the cybersecurity organization.
Establish and continuously improve architectural practices, templates, and documentation.
Work with product managers and senior technology leaders to prioritize security backlog items that enable business epics and features.
Contribute across multiple initiatives simultaneously and adapt quickly between priorities.
Influence resourcing, budgeting, and funding decisions through architectural input and business case development; may provide people leadership or direction for special initiatives.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in security architecture, with some people management experience.
Broad expertise across information security technologies, processes, and control frameworks.
Strong ability to research, evaluate, and recommend emerging technologies and strategies.
Demonstrated experience aligning security capabilities with regulatory, legal, and industry frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF).
Familiarity with common security bodies of knowledge (e.g., NIST, ISACA, SANS, ISC2).
Proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, globally distributed organization.
Exceptional communication, stakeholder engagement, and executive influencing skills.
Experience working in agile and product-based delivery models, with a track record of successful transformation.
Experience evaluating vendors and supporting deployment and integration decisions.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Wellness programs
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

security architectureinformation security technologiescontrol frameworksemerging technologiesregulatory frameworksNIST CSFagile delivery modelsvendor evaluationdeployment decisionsintegration decisions

Soft Skills

communicationstakeholder engagementexecutive influencingmentoringguidanceadaptabilitycollaborationleadershipstrategic thinkingproblem-solving