Principal Cybersecurity Architect

Overview:  

We are seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Architect to lead the strategic design and implementation of secure architecture across our platform and within our corporate enterprise.
In this role, you will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, risk, and compliance teams to ensure our systems are resilient, compliant, and aligned with
best practices for cybersecurity in a highly regulated industry.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines deep security expertise with the ability to influence architecture at scale.

Your day-to-day at Sagent:

• Define and drive the overarching cybersecurity architecture strategy across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments. 
• Serve as a technical expert and thought leader, guiding secure design and architecture decisions that align with business needs and compliance requirements. 
• Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and architectural risk assessments for both existing systems and new initiatives.  

• Partner with Engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, Product, Legal, and GRC teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. 
• Collaborate with network infrastructure and operations teams to enforce secure configurations, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, an incident response readiness.
• Act as a security liaison to internal stakeholders and external auditors, helping translate architecture into understandable, auditable security practices. 

• Evaluate, select, and implement security technologies and frameworks, including zero-trust models, secure SDLC processes, cloud-native security tools, and automation. 
• Guide and review implementations to ensure alignment with NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and other relevant standards and frameworks. 
• Stay current on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices to continually evolve the organization’s cybersecurity posture. 

• Contribute to the development and enforcement of security policies, standards, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements. 
• Support incident response planning, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies from an architectural standpoint. 
• Conduct security assessments and provide architecture-level input during third-party vendor evaluations and product integrations. 

• Mentor engineers and technical staff on secure coding, system hardening, and threat prevention techniques. 
• Provide through leadership across the company on topics such as cloud security, data protection, and application security architecture. 
• Represent the security function in high-level architectural reviews, design forums, and strategic planning discussions. 

We would love to hear from you if you have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or relevant discipline with 6 - 10 years of experience in a related field. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in information security and architecture, with a strong background in cloud-native security, network security and secure application design. 
• Extensive experience designing security architecture for SaaS platforms and enterprise-scale cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure).
• Deep knowledge of industry standards and frameworks such as NIST, CIS, ISO, SOC 2, PCI DSS, OWASP. 
• Proven experience with threat modeling, IAM, encryption strategies, secure coding practices, and risk assessments. 
• Strong understanding of financial services or regulated industries, ideally with prior experience in mortgage servicing or fintech. 
• Relevant Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GDSA, -ISSAP, or SABSA preferred.