Senior Security Architecture Specialist

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About the role

  • Senior Security Architecture Specialist at Morgan Stanley ensuring compliance and security governance in architecture. Leading design standards and cross-team collaboration in cybersecurity.

Responsibilities

  • Steward the security architecture standard across all verticals – ADRs, threat models, trust boundaries, and control plane design.
  • Produce compliance traceability artifacts mapping architecture decisions to compliance requirements.
  • Drive cross team architecture influence with principal engineers and engineering leads.
  • Support security standards, create templates and patterns to increase efficiency and adoption of security programs.
  • Operate and evolve the design governance toolchain.
  • Define the ADR lifecycles from creation to deprecation, ensuring decision records remain authoritative.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of work experience in the IT field or equivalent.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and governing SDLC security controls at scale – SAST, SCA, OSS governance, and container scanning.
  • Hands-on experience with policy as code frameworks (OPA, Sentinel, or equivalent) and the ability to review and write policies, not just evaluate vendor tooling.
  • Experience producing architecture decision records, threat models, or equivalent design governance artifacts that served as authoritative references for engineering teams.
  • Strong writing skills to translate architecture decisions into compliance traceability artifacts and executive-facing recommendation documents.
  • Track record of driving adoption through influence.
  • Strong scripting background (Python, PowerShell).

Benefits

  • Comprehensive employee benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Professional development opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

PythonSDLC

Location requirements

HybridMontrealCanada

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