Cloud Security Architect Principal

Texas Capital is built to help businesses and their leaders. Our depth of knowledge and expertise allows us to bring the best of the big firms at a scale that works for our clients, with highly experienced bankers who truly invest in people's success - today and tomorrow.

While we are rooted in core financial products, we are differentiated by our approach. Our bankers are seasoned financial experts who possess deep experience across a multitude of industries. Equally important, they bring commitment - investing the time and resources to understand our clients' immediate needs, identify market opportunities and meet long-term objectives. At Texas Capital, we do more than build business success. We build long-lasting relationships.

Texas Capital provides a variety of benefits to colleagues, including health insurance coverage, wellness program, fertility and family building aids, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans with a generous 401K match, paid leave programs, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO).

Headquartered in Dallas with offices in Austin, Fort Worth, Houston, Richardson, Plano and San Antonio, Texas Capital was recently named Best Regional Bank in 2024 by Bankrate and was named to The Dallas Morning News' Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex Top Workplaces 2023 and GoBankingRate's 2023 list of Best Regional Banks. For more information about joining our team, please visit us at

Responsibilities

• Cultivate a sense of Cloud security awareness, principles, standardization strategies and best practices.
• Partner with Cloud technology subject matter experts (SMEs) to define and formalize Cloud security policies required to build, support, and consume Cloud services.
• Drive in the Cloud security solution architecture options inclusive of system design, implementation and provide guidance to resolve any architectural impediments associated.
• Complete and/or contribute to documentation for Cloud security controls to keep business initiatives moving forward.
• Publish and maintain a Cloud security roadmap in alignment with business initiatives and security capabilities required when leveraging Cloud services. (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.)
• Assess emerging Cloud security systems, standards, authentication protocols, and products to determine where they fill gaps, overlap with existing solutions, or extend capabilities.
• Ability to communicate Cloud security concepts effectively across all organization levels.
• Formalize Cloud security architecture standards and aligned design patterns.
• Drive opportunities to automate and standardize Cloud security controls.
• Perform complex and systemic risk assessment and support project efforts to attain timely and effective secure Cloud designs.
• Review technical design documentation to ensure security related items are incorporated.
• Communicate the conceptual and logical design of holistic enterprise Cloud security solutions.
• Ability to think critically, prioritize tasks and solve problems independently or as a team member.

The duties listed above are the essential functions, or fundamental duties within the job classification. The essential functions of individual positions within the classification may differ. Texas Capital Bank may assign reasonably related additional duties to individual employees consistent with standard departmental policy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalent experience in Information Technology or Computer Science discipline
• CISSP, CCSP, CCSK and AWS/Azure Cloud architecture security certifications desired
• 10+ years of experience in support, development, design, and implementation of technology solutions on large initiatives - preferably in Financial Services
• 10+ years of experience producing deliverables such as technology designs, architecture overviews, design patterns and technology blueprints within an architecture framework such as Open Security Architecture (OSA).
• Experience working with industry security frameworks (GLBA, CSA, CIS, FFIEC, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA, NIST, etc.)
• Experience building and designing security architecture within Cloud environments
• Strong written and verbal ability to communicate concisely, effectively, and directly (to develop and deliver presentations on complex subjects)
• Understanding of security protocols, cryptography, authentication, authorization, and security relative to Cloud.
• Experience architecting, implementing, and designing Cloud security capabilities in areas of IAM, endpoint security, network security, data protection and application security practices.
• Experience working with 2LOD (Risk) and 3LOD (Audit) functions to remediate Cloud security and as a Service (aaS) related finding.
• Working knowledge of Cloud based Identity and Access management (IAM) including Single Sign On, MFA, identity providers and frameworks. (FIDO, SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect)
• Working knowledge in one or more software development languages (Java, Python, etc.) and technologies such as Kubernetes/Virtualization/ Data Lake
• MS Office skills including Visio, PowerPoint, Excel and Word and experience using these tools to build system designs and provide updates

The duties listed above are the essential functions, or fundamental duties within the job classification. The essential functions of individual positions within the classification may differ. Texas Capital Bank may assign reasonably related additional duties to individual employees consistent with standard departmental policy.Texas Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer.