Lead Security Architect
Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is the global market leader in press release distribution and regulatory disclosure. We are on a mission to redefine how organizations connect with their audiences - and that’s just the beginning!Organizations, large and small, depend on us to accurately publicize market-moving news and multimedia, and generate social engagements that develop interactions with their target audiences.RoleSummaryAs a Lead Security Architect, you will be responsible fordesigning, developing,and implementing security strategies for implementing Multi-Cloud Hybrid Platform SaaS-based products and solutions. You will work closely withEngineering, Architecture, and Operations teams to solve complex security problems to enable innovative new products, and prototypes. Whether we're designing our next-generation security controls or threat-modeling distributed systems, our goal is to define the future of how we secure Business Wire’s infrastructure and applications. As a Lead Security Architect, you'll be trusted to understand security requirements of our software stack and service-oriented architecture, provide guidance on logical security controls that are manageable at scale. Your leadership skills will influence the roadmap for future security technologies, while working alongside motivated engineers across the company to keep Business Wire’sprevention, detection, and response on the cutting edge.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an efficient and high performing diverse software development organization with a culture of agile development and continuous improvement and learning
- Promote an inclusive team culture that challenges and empowers everyone to do the best work of their career
- Identify organizational optimizations that will help improve development speed and quality
- Work with the leaders on your team to ensure technical best practices are constantly developed and enforced
- Champion engineering excellence, establishing business metrics, and drive continuous operational improvement
- Work independently and suggest ideas, solutions and technical improvements for products and systems to increase revenue, reduce time to market, and make our systems more capable of adapting to shifting business requirements
- Provide escalation support for on call support rotation
- Effectively communicate feedback and decisions to your internal team and external partners
- Lead and participate in critical technical, design, and product discussions with leaders across our product and operations teams
- Own the success of your team's product and deliver quantifiable results in a timely manner
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience in a related field
- 4+ years of managing high performing agile teams engineering teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud native environments
- 2+ years experience leading managers
- 8+ years of full-stack software development experience
- Experienced with Javascript based frameworks
- Experienced in AWS development with hands-on knowledge lambda, S3, and other AWS services
- Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing.
- Proven ability to recruit and retain world-class engineers.
- Excellent managerial skills and interpersonal skills; effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering, ability to interact and work with staff at all levels. At this time, Business Wire will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.What We Offer
- The base salary range for this position is $120K to $200K. Offered salary will be determined by several factors, including but not limited to: applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with geographic market data. Business Wire reserves the right to modify this salary range at any time.
- Business Wire’s total rewards include:
- Ability to work remotely 100%
- Excellent health benefits that begin on your first day of employment
- $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources
- 401(k) plan with generous company match, and annual profit sharing contribution (subject to company performance)
- PTO, Floating Holidays, Wellness Day Off, Birthday Day Off, and more!