Vice President, Architecture
skillventory - A Leading Talent Research Firm
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Merrimack • New Hampshire • Rhode Island • United States
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About the role
- Design and implement advanced security architectures that safeguard our digital ecosystem, protect customer trust, and reduce operational fraud risk for our FI clients.
- Collaborate with fraud analytics teams to integrate real-time fraud detection and prevention mechanisms into system design.
- Develop and maintain fraud detection and prevention architectures, reference models, and security patterns.
- Define and enforce security architecture standards and best practices, including cloud security design, Zero Trust principles, defense-in-depth, least-privilege access, and secure API frameworks.
- Establish comprehensive frameworks for risk assessment, threat modeling, and compliance audits to mitigate fraud and cyber threats across Fidelity Institutional Technology.
- Provide expertise to project teams on secure design and integration across the technology stack (security, cloud, DevSecOps, etc.).
- Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) to assess technical and business benefits.
- Participate in the definition and enforcement of enterprise security architecture standards across all platforms, ensuring alignment with financial regulatory requirements (e.g., SEC, FINRA, PCI DSS).
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in security architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions across multiple platforms.
- Expertise in application security implementations and best practices; certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Fraud Detection and Analytics Certificate (ACAMS) are strong positives.
- Expertise and experience in Fraud detection, prevention and mitigation strategies
- Deep knowledge of IAM, cryptography/key management, access controls, and security protocols (e.g., MFA, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, API security).
- Experience with DevSecOps, AWS security, and secure code development.
- Proven ability to establish strategy and implement cloud enterprise solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
- Strong background in tool selection and vendor management.
- Financial industry experience a plus
- Thought leadership in technology selection and security strategy formation.
- Ability to guide secure design across all layers of the application stack.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and mastery of security principles.
- Strong presentation, documentation, communication, and influencing skills to articulate technology direction in a business context.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
security architecturefraud detectionfraud preventioncloud security designZero Trust principlesdefense-in-depthleast-privilege accesssecure API frameworksIAMcryptography
Soft Skills
problem-solvingcommunicationinfluencingleadershipcollaborationdocumentationpresentationstrategy formationguidancevendor management
Certifications
CISSPCCSPAWS Certified Security – SpecialtyCCSKCFEFraud Detection and Analytics Certificate