Cybersecurity Lead Engineer/Architect

SUMMARY

The Cybersecurity Lead Engineer/Architect is the firm’s most senior individual contributor in security, joining a lean security operations team responsible for the continued evolution, design, and advancement of the firm’s cybersecurity program. This role deliberately blends high-level strategy and security architecture direction with hands-on implementation engineering: setting the technical vision, reference architectures, and standards while personally building, configuring, and hardening the controls that bring them to life. The role safeguards the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of firm data and systems in alignment with organizational policies and regulatory expectations, leading the design and implementation of security architecture, controls, and technical solutions across the enterprise while proactively identifying risks and recommending strategic improvements.

This individual operates as a highly self-directed contributor within a team responsible for cybersecurity and enterprise risk. The role requires independent assessment of emerging threats, evaluation of control effectiveness, prioritization of initiatives, and ownership of security-focused projects and architectural roadmaps from concept through execution. The Cybersecurity Lead Engineer/Architect regularly collaborates with infrastructure, software engineering, and service desk teams to drive measurable improvem