Principal Security Architect

🕒 August 26

🤠 Texas – Remote

🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $161.9k - $272.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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SailPoint

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

SailPoint is a leader in identity security solutions, providing an intelligent and autonomous platform designed to meet the evolving security needs of modern enterprises. Their products, including IdentityIQ and Identity Security Cloud, offer a unified and comprehensive approach to managing and securing enterprise identities. SailPoint helps organizations mitigate cyber risks, improve IT efficiency, and maintain compliance through advanced capabilities such as cloud infrastructure entitlement management, non-employee risk management, and data access security. By integrating AI and machine learning, SailPoint enables organizations to streamline identity processes, enhance security measures, and accelerate onboarding. They serve multiple industries, including education, financial services, government, and healthcare, by offering tailored identity governance and administration solutions.

📋 Description

• Build and establish a mature cybersecurity architecture practice • Establish specialization domains across Cloud Security, Application Security, Network Security, and other cybersecurity disciplines • Produce holistic architectures and reference architectures • Influence roadmaps to meet business objectives, address the threat landscape, and evaluate the risk register • Bridge architecture and engineering by translating abstract concepts into realistic, valuable, viable solutions • Review active engagements and environments to expose gaps and opportunities • Enrich architectural opportunities with metadata to surface high-impact initiatives • Secure leadership alignment and funding for prioritized initiatives • Run hands-on projects • Mentor and guide peer architects and engineers • Collaborate across Cybersecurity, IT, and Engineering as a technical ambassador • Propose an architecture practice strategy within 30 days • Operationalize the architecture practice and produce initial reference architectures and domain roadmaps within 90 days • Compile and present a prioritized cybersecurity opportunity roadmap to executive leadership within 180 days

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, or security engineering • Proven track record of contributing to, establishing, or leading an architecture practice • Deep expertise across multiple security domains, including Cloud Security, Application Security, Identity Security, and Network Security • Experience developing reference architectures and strategic roadmaps • Strong technical background and ability to remain hands-on • Ability to translate abstract architectural concepts into viable engineering solutions • Experience aligning security initiatives with business objectives • Experience securing leadership buy-in and funding • Familiarity with industry frameworks such as SABSA, NIST, and ISO • Strong interpersonal and teaming skills • Ability to mentor peers, lead cross-functional initiatives, and influence stakeholders without direct authority • Ability to operate in an agile, fast-paced environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Short-term and long-term disability coverage • Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) • Supplemental life insurance for employees, spouses, and children • Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent care • Limited purpose flexible spending account • 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company matching • Flexible vacation policy • 8 paid holidays annually • Sick leave • Paid parental leave • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Care Counselors • Legal Assistance, Critical Illness, Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Pet Insurance options • Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution • Potential eligibility for SailPoint Corporate Bonus Plan or role-specific commission • Potential eligibility for equity participation • Remote work option or Austin-based work arrangement