Senior DevSecOps Architect

Our client is a leading global investment bank.

Join us to directly influence the future of technology at our client. As a Senior DevSecOps Architect, you'll collaborate with top cybersecurity and engineering talent, solving complex challenges and enabling safe, secure innovation. Your passion for security and drive to make a real impact are valued here. Grow your skills in a dynamic environment designed for achievers. Help us build products that prioritize security from the start.

Job Summary:

As a Senior DevSecOps Architect in the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls team for International Consumer, you will proactively partner with technology and business colleagues to identify and address security issues. You will embed security culture, lead threat modeling, and drive architecture reviews to ensure our products are secure by design. Your role will be pivotal in managing emerging risks, influencing product strategy, and serving as the subject matter expert for the DevSecOps strategy as well as embedding automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines. You will collaborate globally, supporting audit, regulatory, and risk initiatives, with a focus on cloud computing and emerging technologies.

Job Responsibilities:

• Pipeline Security Architecture - Design, implement, and continuously improve security architecture for CI/CD pipelines and DevOps toolchains, ensuring automated security checks are embedded at every stage from code commit to production deployment.
• Security-as-Code Leadership - Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Security-as-Code practices, including policy enforcement, security linting, and automated compliance validation across cloud environments.
• Threat Modeling & Architecture Reviews - Lead advanced threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE-LM) for pipelines, microservices, and cloud-native applications, and conduct architecture reviews to drive adoption of secure design patterns.
• Automated Guardrails at Scale - Design and deploy automated preventive and detective guardrails to proactively reduce risk across CICD pipelines, cloud and SaaS environments.
• Security Culture & Enablement - Cultivate a security-first culture across product, technology, and business teams by providing developer-friendly tooling, training, and reusable secure patterns that accelerate rather than hinder delivery.
• Risk & Issue Management - Act with urgency to manage emerging security issues, monitor risk indicators, and recommend resolutions. Serve as the escalation point for IT Risk and Cyber domains related to DevSecOps and Change Management.
• Stakeholder Partnership - Partner with engineering leads, product owners, and vendors to ensure effective technology risk management, translating regulatory and policy requirements into actionable, engineer-friendly controls.
• Audit & Regulatory Support - Support audit, regulatory, and risk activities by providing evidence of control effectiveness and translating compliance requirements into automated, repeatable processes.
• Continuous Improvement - Identify and address unfamiliar technology components, share best practices, and influence peers to drive continuous improvement in DevSecOps maturity across the organization.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Advanced threat modeling experience (e.g., STRIDE-LM) for DevOps/CICD Pipelines and toolchains.
• Expert ability to advise and influence secure pipeline architecture using Policy-as-Code and automated gates.
• Hands-on security expertise in AWS and GCP.
• Practical experience creating reference architectures and patterns for engineering teams.

• Proven ability to design and deploy automated preventive and detective guardrails at scale.

• Expertise in leveraging IaC scanning to detect misconfigurations and compliance violations across Terraform and Kubernetes manifests
• Hands-on experience in integrating a comprehensive DevSecOps tooling stack, including SAST, SCA, RASP, IAST, container and image scanning, secrets detection, and AI-powered DAST solutions
• Experience implementing and managing SBOMs to track internal, third-party risk and supply chain security.
• Ability to solve design and functionality problems independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated success in influencing peers and stakeholders.
• Ability to evaluate and recommend emerging technologies for future state architecture.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• Shift-Left/Start-Left Evangelism - A proven track record of mentoring developers and fostering a culture where security is a shared responsibility
• Relevant certifications: AWS Certified Security - Specialty, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, CISSP, CKS, OSCP.
• Experience operating in regulated organizations with a 3LoD model.
• Willingness to challenge existing processes respectfully.
• Experience translating policy and regulatory requirements into control design for engineers and architects.
• Proven ability to upskill and learn modern technologies.
• Experience in financial services consumer businesses or Fintech organizations.

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Our client is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our

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