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Cybersecurity Architect – Global Bank
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Architect to join our global banking organization. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and governing enterprise security architecture across a complex and regulated environment. You will work at the intersection of technology, compliance, and risk, ensuring that our platforms and services remain secure, resilient, and trusted by millions of customers worldwide.
As a Cybersecurity Architect, you will define security frameworks, guide engineering teams, and embed security-by-design principles across cloud, data, and application platforms. You will also play a critical role in advising leadership on emerging threats, regulatory requirements, and long-term strategy.
What You’ll Do
As a Cybersecurity Architect at a global bank, you will have the opportunity to work at massive scale, solving some of the most complex challenges in securing financial data, transactions, and infrastructure. You will play a pivotal role in protecting critical assets, shaping enterprise-wide architecture, and ensuring compliance in a highly regulated industry. The work is high-stakes, the impact is global, and your expertise will help define the bank’s security posture for years to come.
About Andiamo
Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.
Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled Cybersecurity Architect to join our global banking organization. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and governing enterprise security architecture across a complex and regulated environment. You will work at the intersection of technology, compliance, and risk, ensuring that our platforms and services remain secure, resilient, and trusted by millions of customers worldwide.
As a Cybersecurity Architect, you will define security frameworks, guide engineering teams, and embed security-by-design principles across cloud, data, and application platforms. You will also play a critical role in advising leadership on emerging threats, regulatory requirements, and long-term strategy.
What You’ll Do
- Architect Secure Systems: Define and implement enterprise-wide security architectures for applications, data, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
- Embed Security-by-Design: Partner with engineering and product teams to ensure secure development practices across the software lifecycle.
- Regulatory Alignment: Translate regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., FFIEC, PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR) into actionable security controls and architectures.
- Threat Modeling: Conduct risk assessments and design countermeasures to mitigate sophisticated threats and vulnerabilities.
- Cloud & Hybrid Environments: Architect security controls for multi-cloud, on-prem, and hybrid banking infrastructure at global scale.
- Identity & Access: Lead design of IAM, zero-trust frameworks, and authentication strategies across distributed environments.
- Collaboration: Serve as a trusted advisor to engineering, operations, compliance, and executive teams on cybersecurity best practices and architecture decisions.
- Innovation: Evaluate and adopt cutting-edge technologies in encryption, secure networking, and AI-driven threat detection.
- Experience: 8 years of experience in cybersecurity architecture or engineering, ideally within financial services or other regulated industries.
- Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP), SIEM/SOAR, IAM, firewalls, encryption, and secure application design.
- Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with global banking regulations and security frameworks (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, FFIEC, PCI, GDPR).
- Architecture Skills: Proven ability to design secure systems that balance business goals, usability, and compliance requirements.
- Communication: Strong ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives.
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field.
- Certifications (Preferred): CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SABSA, TOGAF, or cloud security certifications.
As a Cybersecurity Architect at a global bank, you will have the opportunity to work at massive scale, solving some of the most complex challenges in securing financial data, transactions, and infrastructure. You will play a pivotal role in protecting critical assets, shaping enterprise-wide architecture, and ensuring compliance in a highly regulated industry. The work is high-stakes, the impact is global, and your expertise will help define the bank’s security posture for years to come.
About Andiamo
Talent Partners for the AI Revolution. As a globally recognized staffing and consulting firm, we specialize in placing the top 2% of technology and go-to-market professionals with the world’s largest and most well-known companies.
For over 20 years, we've maintained the status of tier-one vendor for firms such as Palantir, Amazon, Fluidstack, Bloomberg, Relativity Space, Firefly, MasterCard, Visa, Two Sigma, Citadel, as well as other major financial services firms, elite hedge funds, Google-backed tech start-ups, and major software firms.
Our talent solutions include Permanent Placement, Contract Staffing, Executive Search, and Dedicated Recruiting Services (RPO). Find out more at www.andiamogo.com