
Senior Security Architect
Fitch Group, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $175,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead in tactical and strategic design and implementation of control sets for emerging technologies.
- Delegating action and keeping senior stakeholders aligned.
- Scope and own execution of assessments performed by third party consultants, ensuring remediation is adequately negotiated and ultimately enacted by other technology teams.
- Reviewing target architecture designs, ensuring any security risks are understood and documented.
- These changes include application updates, and modifications to network and identity provider configurations.
- Reviewing security policies, standards, procedures, and metrics, and participating in security monitoring use case design.
- Owning the continuous optimization of team workflows with the help of agentic technology and scrum tooling
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of effective experience building and assessing enterprise systems.
- Deep conceptual understanding of AWS and Azure, and their identity platforms.
- Strong understanding of OAuth, OIDC, and modern access control.
- Fluidity in designing and reviewing authorization flows.
- Strong familiarity with adversary tradecraft, including identity and network perimeter attack primitives.
- Able to produce PoC attack sequences, for controls testing.
- Prior offensive security experience, or hands on offensive security certification strongly preferred.
- Ability to accurately, and pragmatically threat model business workflow, identifying the areas of control required, and documenting them.
- AI-first mindset; able to identify and act upon opportunities to automate analysis and administrative tasks, while improving the quality of assessment output.
- Effective communicator, both in writing and speaking.
- Strong organizational skills, with a proactive approach to enhancing team processes and tools.
- Strong scripting or automation skills (Python, Go, PowerShell).
- Understanding of security compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST, SOC 2).
Benefits
- Hybrid Work Environment: 2 to 3 days a week in office required based on your line of business and location
- A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
- Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
- Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
- Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
- Inclusive Work Environment : A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued, with Employee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
- Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSAzureOAuthOIDCPythonGoPowerShellsecurity compliance frameworksISO 27001NIST
Soft Skills
effective communicatorstrong organizational skillsproactive approachability to threat modelteam workflows optimizationstrategic designdelegationstakeholder alignmentcontinuous improvementautomation mindset
Certifications
offensive security certification