Role Brief
The Senior Manager: Product Security Architecture leads the strategic design and governance of security architecture across Commercial, FinTech, and Digital business initiatives. This role ensures secure-by-design principles are embedded throughout the product lifecycle, balancing cybersecurity requirements with business agility to minimize disruption and reduce fraud risks.
The position provides thought leadership, mentorship, and technical oversight, ensuring all products and services align with Equity’s security policies, regulatory standards, and risk management objectives.
Role Responsibilities
Security Architecture & Design:
- Define and translate security requirements into scalable, resilient product architectures for Commercial, FinTech, and Digital platforms.
- Drive early security integration in the SDLC, collaborating with product, engineering, and business teams.
- Lead security design reviews for applications, APIs, networks, and cloud deployments.
- Provide expert remediation guidance and actionable recommendations to technical teams.
- Develop and maintain security standards, patterns, and reference architectures; ensure adoption across teams.
- Advise on cryptographic technologies (PGP, SSH, SSL) and authentication protocols (OIDC, OAuth, SAML, RADIUS, LDAP, Kerberos).
- Champion secure cloud adoption, network hardening, and data protection strategies.
- Serve as technical authority for security-related strategic initiatives.
Strategy, Risk, and Business Alignment:
- Align product security architecture with enterprise cybersecurity strategy and risk appetite.
- Identify fraud and social engineering risks; recommend preventive controls.
- Map security controls to B2B, B2C, and C2C models, ensuring frictionless customer experience.
- Present complex technical risks in business language to senior leadership.
- Influence investment decisions for security technologies and frameworks.
Leadership & Team Management:
- Lead and mentor the security architecture team, fostering continuous learning and innovation.
- Define team objectives, allocate resources, and manage performance.
- Build strong partnerships with CISO office, product owners, and technology leaders.
- Promote a culture of security awareness across business units.
Key Critical Competencies
- Strategic Leadership: Ability to influence executive decisions and drive security transformation.
- Decision-Making: Balances risk, cost, and customer experience.
- Communication: Exceptional ability to simplify technical concepts for business stakeholders.
- Collaboration: Builds trust across diverse teams and geographies.
- Innovation: Anticipates emerging threats and integrates cutting-edge security solutions.
Role Complexity:
- Document security control for each business service delivery.
- Understand each business function – Commercial, FinTech and digital initiatives
Budgets/ Financial Input
- Provide knowledge business services and product to the security team.
- Consolidate and translate business security needs into finical measurable matrix
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in IT, Network Security, Information Security, Computer Engineering, or related field.
- Professional certifications: CISSP, CISM, SABSA, CEH; PMP is an advantage.
- Minimum 5+ years in security architecture and governance, with 2+ years in leadership roles.
- Strong understanding of financial services, telecom, and FinTech ecosystems.
- Expertise in: Encryption & authentication protocols, Data protection & privacy frameworks, Agile & DevSecOps practices, API security & Open Banking models.
- Familiarity with ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, NIST, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
- Proven ability to develop enterprise security architectures and manage cross-functional teams.
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