Varicent

Varicent

Director, Security Architecture & Threat Modeling

Toronto, Canada · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
Distributed SystemsAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesLLMsCybersecurityPerformance ManagementResearchLeadership

About the role

  • This is a highly visible leadership role reporting directly to the VP & Chief Information Security Officer.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Security Architecture & Secure-by-Design
  • Define and execute the Security Architecture and Security-by-Design strategy and roadmap.
  • Establish secure reference architectures, design standards, and security patterns for cloud-native and AI-enabled solutions.
  • Partner with Engineering and Product teams to embed security into development workflows and system design decisions.
  • Drive adoption of secure-by-design best practices by embedding security requirements in epics, user stories and the AI SLDC.
  • Drive Threat Modeling & Risk Analysis
  • Produce actionable threat modeling artifacts including data flow diagrams, trust boundary analysis, abuse cases, attack paths, security requirements, technical specifications, design risks, remediation actions, and residual risk documentation.
  • Analyze recurring vulnerabilities, penetration test results, incident learnings, and security assessment findings to identify systemic design flaws and improve secure architecture standards.
  • Lead threat modeling activities across critical applications, platforms, and AI-enabled systems.
  • Build reusable threat models, security patterns, and design libraries that scale across engineering teams.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of secure application design, cloud security, and modern software architectures.

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