
Principal Architect – Cybersecurity
Veralto
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $195,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as the authoritative owner of enterprise-wide security architecture, reference architectures, and standards and ensuring they remain current with evolving threats, and emerging technologies as well as ensuring they are embedded into process across engineering and product teams
- Provides authoritative security guidance across multiple operating companies and domains, influencing senior leaders to align security strategy with business objectives and adopt consistent standards
- Serve as a subject matter authority across a broad portfolio of cybersecurity domains, providing expert guidance on identity and access management, monitoring and detection, cloud security architecture, endpoint security, data protection, and network security
- Lead complex security architecture reviews, evaluating proposed designs, systems, and technologies to identify risk exposures and provide actionable, risk-mitigating recommendations to engineering and product teams
- Establish and maintain security architecture principles, patterns, and standards aligned to frameworks such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and Zero Trust Architecture
- Evaluate and advise on the selection of security technologies and tools, assessing fit against organizational needs, risk posture, and strategic direction
- Communicate complex cybersecurity risks, findings, and recommendations clearly and concisely to directors and executives, translating technical concepts into business impact and strategic context
- Build and sustain trusted relationships across operating companies, technology teams, and leadership to drive security priorities and foster a security-conscious culture
- Influence security decisions and adoption of security standards across the organization without direct authority, leveraging expertise, data, and persuasive communication
- Own and drive complex, cross operating company security projects and initiatives from initiation through delivery with minimal supervision, proactively identifying risks, managing stakeholder expectations, and removing obstacles
- Conduct and lead architectural based security risk assessments of new and existing technologies, third-party integrations, and business processes, producing clear risk findings with prioritized mitigation options
- Act as a mentor and technical resource for junior and mid-level security analysts and engineers, sharing expertise and elevating the overall capability of the security organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Management Information Systems, or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Typically 10+ years of progressive experience in information security, with demonstrated depth across multiple security domains
- Proven track record of independently leading and delivering complex, cross-functional security projects and programs with minimal direction
- Deep technical expertise in Identity and Access Management / Identity Governance, including PAM, IGA, IAM SSO, MFA, and directory services (e.g., Active Directory, Entra ID)
- Strong hands-on knowledge of monitoring and detection technologies, including SIEM platforms (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel), EDR/XDR, SOAR, and threat intelligence platforms
- Demonstrated expertise in cloud security architecture across one or more major cloud providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), including cloud-native security controls, IaC security, and multi-cloud environments
Benefits
- Bonus/incentive pay and equity awards for eligible roles
- A flexible, remote-friendly work environment
- Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust
- Ongoing investment in your career through dedicated training, on-the-job development, and coaching
- Total rewards that support your success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise-wide security architectureidentity and access managementcloud security architectureendpoint securitydata protectionnetwork securityrisk assessmentsmonitoring and detectionsecurity project managementsecurity standards compliance
Soft Skills
influencing senior leaderscommunication of cybersecurity risksrelationship buildingpersuasive communicationmentoringstakeholder managementproblem-solvingstrategic alignmentcross-functional collaborationrisk mitigation