About the role

Vice President of Cybersecurity Architecture designing and implementing advanced security architectures for Fidelity. Collaborating across teams to mitigate fraud risk and protect customer trust.

Responsibilities

Design and implement advanced security architectures that safeguard our digital ecosystem, protect customer trust, and reduce operational fraud risk for our FI clients.
Collaborate with fraud analytics teams to integrate real-time fraud detection and prevention mechanisms into system design.
Develop and maintain fraud detection and prevention architectures, reference models, and security patterns.
Define and enforce security architecture standards and best practices, including cloud security design, Zero Trust principles, defense-in-depth, least-privilege access, and secure API frameworks.
Establish comprehensive frameworks for risk assessment, threat modeling, and compliance audits to mitigate fraud and cyber threats across Fidelity Institutional Technology.
Provide expertise to project teams on secure design and integration across the technology stack (security, cloud, DevSecOps, etc.).
Lead Proof of Concepts (POCs) to assess technical and business benefits.
Participate in the definition and enforcement of enterprise security architecture standards across all platforms, ensuring alignment with financial regulatory requirements (e.g., SEC, FINRA, PCI DSS).

15+ years of experience in security architecture, analytics, design, and development of enterprise solutions across multiple platforms.
Expertise in application security implementations and best practices; certifications such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), AWS Certified Security – Specialty, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Fraud Detection and Analytics Certificate (ACAMS) are strong positives.
Expertise and experience in Fraud detection, prevention and mitigation strategies
Deep knowledge of IAM, cryptography/key management, access controls, and security protocols (e.g., MFA, SAML, OAuth, OIDC, API security).
Experience with DevSecOps, AWS security, and secure code development.
Proven ability to establish strategy and implement cloud enterprise solutions in AWS and/or Azure.
Strong background in tool selection and vendor management.
Financial industry experience a plus
Thought leadership in technology selection and security strategy formation.
Ability to guide secure design across all layers of the application stack.
Excellent problem-solving skills and mastery of security principles.
Strong presentation, documentation, communication, and influencing skills to articulate technology direction in a business context.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience.