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Roles Description
The Principal Enterprise Security Engineer serves as the senior technical authority and strategic thought leader across corporate architecture, SaaS platforms, and workforce technologies. This individual will drive the long-term vision, design controls and paved paths that safeguard corporate assets while enabling business agility and innovation at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
Define and maintain the end to end enterprise security architecture blueprint, covering endpoint, identity, network, and data.
Lead the architectural reviews of major enterprise technology initiatives ( e.g., AI adoption, zero trust modernization, vendor onboarding).
Establish architectural controls, paved paths and perform periodic maturity assessments.
Technical Subject Matter Expertise (SME):
Provide expert guidance on security best practices, technologies, and methodologies to engineering teams.
Architecture & Design:
Review and influence the design of platform and service architectures, ensuring security is integrated from the outset.
Provide risk-based architectural recommendations, influencing executive stakeholders and investment decisions.
Improve org-wide productivity and safety
Automate control deployment and drift detection (IaC/PaC), reduce exception volume, and shorten time-to-adoption via platformized solutions.
Enable safe, rapid change with CI/CD for policy/config and change planning for broad rollouts.
Collaboration:
Work closely with security teams, engineering partners, product leaders, and other principal architects to drive large-scale security initiatives.
Serve as the architecture liaison between Coporate Security and Product Security, ensuring a unified security strategy across enterprise and customer-facing environment.
Serve as a role model for engineers and mentor security practitioners across multiple seniority levels.