Lead Security Engineer

Title: Lead Security Engineer

Location: Remote

Role Summary

Information Security is standing up a security architecture practice and needs a Principal Architect to lead the security transformation of our enterprise through expert technical design and delivery. You will work directly with security leadership and senior technical resources on our strategic initiatives — from discovery through architecture and delivery oversight.

Responsibilities

* Lead technical discovery workshops with IT & Security SMEs — assess current-state maturity, identify security exposure, define target architecture

* Design end-to-end solutions across CI/CD security hardening, AI vulnerability assessment, and AI-native security feedback loop engagements

* Maintain architectural standards across all security domains

* Present findings and solution designs to CISO, CTO, and CIO-level stakeholders — translating between engineering depth and business risk language

* Collaborate with WWT Sales & Services experts to stay up to date on industry best practices and direction

* Mentor Security & IT Engineers and serve as the senior escalation point on delivery

* Drive innovation and thought leadership from a multi-domain, architectural level

* Incorporate secure AI solutions into the architecture wherever possible

* Strong organizational, program management, and stakeholder alignment skills, with the ability to lead complex multi-party architecture engagements from scoping through delivery.

Qualifications

* 8–12 years in solutions architecture with genuine depth in security architecture

* Deep cloud architecture experience (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform) with security-native design patterns: zero trust, least privilege, IAM/NHI design

* Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, OWASP (traditional and Agentic Top 10), NIST AI RMF — able to apply them in architecture design, not just cite them

* Executive presence — can hold a room with a CTO and CISO simultaneously and keep both engaged