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Security Architect, Senior Director

Reporting to the SVP of Product Engineering, this role leads and directs how all of Teradata’s Engineering teams think, build, and deliver towards a unified security architecture and technical strategy. This Security Architect will operate as a Domain Architect, at a Sr Director level, and will leverage broad technical knowledge of security architecture within a SaaS Data Platform offering. This role guides and defines overarching technical security strategies, across the core Teradata Product, as well as with our 3rd party partners and public cloud partners, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. This role understands and predicts customer and market requirements, to ensure Teradata solutions are designed and implemented to the highest security standards and are differentiated in the marketplace.

The optimal candidate for this role is a highly technical security subject matter expert and will work in conjunction with Teradata Cloud Architects and Senior Developers, along with Product Management and Teradata’s CISO, to ensure the security and compliance of Engineering’s deliverables. The Security Architect is also focused on enabling secure deployments including end-to-end encryption, identity & access management implementation, third-party software integration, incident management capabilities, system hardening requirements, and security requirements development for our development teams.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Ensure a highly secure and compliant product architecture
Define and communicate Product Engineering’s security-focused technical strategy and overarching architectures
Leverage current and future security technologies to foresee and capitalize on security opportunities and trends, so as to increase Teradata’s differentiation
Partner closely with Product Management and the Security Organization to ensure alignment and define priority of Engineering investments
Support relevant requests from customers and global partners, related to Engineering’s security approaches and strategies
Guide other security architects to ensure quality decision making and continued excellence in execution
Define and/or contribute to security standards to be implemented by development teams
Advise developers on cloud architectures and designs to meet accreditation standards
Verify on-prem and Cloud deployments match defined architecture
Build secure architectures to support massively globally scaled, and multi-tenant, environments
Liaison with our consulting practice to develop/enhance and document information security policies, procedures and standards required to design cloud-based solutions
Ensure adherence to standard regulatory and compliance requirements by overseeing regular 3rd party security audits and penetration testing
Understand customer base data security needs and applicable standard compliance requirements, and help design solutions fulfilling those requirements
The SA will have excellent customer facing skills to be able to discuss security concerns raised by client security professionals and executives

Qualifications

15+ years of demonstrated product security, information security, risk management & compliance experience
10+ years of experience with cloud compliance and/or common industry security standards
Experience with encrypting, tokenizing, and/or hashing techniques to maximize data protection
Demonstrated capability to design secure enterprise applications and/or systems on public / hybrid cloud as well as secure solutions for data in transit
Experience with cloud privileges, tenant isolation, and RBAC solutions at enterprise scale
Development experience in C, C++ and/or Java, as well as common scripting languages
Experience with RESTful Microservices
Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
Understanding of industry regulatory and compliance requirements (i.e., FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, NIST, HIPAA)
Technical experience working with database technologies
Experience with the application of threat modeling or other risk identification techniques
Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices
Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience preferred
Industry certifications such as CISSP or CCSP preferred
Excellent written and verbal communication skills