College Board

College Board

Security Architect, Product

Remote - USA · Junior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$156k-$172kDetected 30 days ago
AWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsCI/CDCybersecuritySOC OperationsZero TrustLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • We value diverse perspectives and ensure every voice is heard.
  • This role requires strong judgment and agency.
  • You will be expected to make risk-based decisions within established guardrails, knowing when to escalate and when to move forward independently.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a trusted security advisor to engineering and product teams, offering clear guidance on secure architecture, design decisions, and remediation strategies.
  • Partner with product teams early in the lifecycle to conduct architectural assessments, threat modeling, and data flow review, ensuring that secure-by-design practices guide every phase of development.
  • Advise on secure implementation of cloud-native services, client/mobile applications, IAM, encryption, storage, access control and data protection, and serverless design patterns.
  • Lead risk-based trade-off discussions (security, privacy, usability, delivery), documenting key decisions and rationale to help teams move quickly and consistently.
  • Lead the creation and documentation of secure architectural reference patterns for recurring use cases across College Board (e.g., external API patterns, secure data ingestion).
  • Collaborate with other architects to shape the long-term technical strategy for secure software and cloud architecture.
  • Mentor junior security engineers and developers, providing coaching on architectural thinking, secure design, and modern application security concepts.
  • Provide architectural guidance that supports audit and compliance readiness by ensuring security and privacy requirements are reflected in system design, technical controls, and documented patterns.
  • At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.

Nice to have

  • Meaningful experience in security architecture, application security, or cloud security, with ownership of architectural decisions and trade-offs.
  • Strong understanding of security risks in modern multi-tenant SaaS architectures (APIs, microservices/event-driven patterns, identity, data protection).
  • Experience leading threat modeling, architecture reviews, and risk assessments, translating findings into clear, actionable guidance for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Cloud security depth (AWS preferred
  • comparable depth in Azure or GCP is valued).
  • Experience securing third-party and customer integrations at scale (e.g., SSO/identity federation and data exchange).
  • A pragmatic, risk-based approach and comfort operating with ambiguity, able to exercise agency and make decisions within guardrails.

Skills

  • A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
  • Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal

Compensation

  • We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.

Benefits

  • You'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.

Company info

  • College Boards' Product Security team is a close-knit group of technologists focused on building secure, cloud-native products.
  • We partner closely with product and engineering teams to identify risks early, solve hard problems, and enable delivery through practical security architecture and DevSecOps practices.
  • Security Architects collaborate with product teams and key stakeholders to translate business needs into secure design decisions.
  • They lead threat modeling and architecture reviews, help teams adopt secure development practices, and contribute to security standards and tooling decisions.
  • About the Opportunity
  • As a Product Security Architect, you will serve as a trusted advisor to product teams building and operating multi-tenant SaaS applications that support millions of students.
  • You'll guide secure-by-design architecture, lead threat modeling and design reviews, and help teams make practical trade-offs across security, privacy, resilience, and delivery.
  • You will also help shape security architecture for high-trust assessment experiences and large-scale integrations common in K-12 and higher education ecosystems.
  • Partner with engineering teams to evaluate failure modes, dependency risks, and systemic weaknesses as part of architectural reviews and threat modeling.
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