avp, product security architect

Synchrony

<div>Job Description:
Role Summary/Purpose:
Synchrony is seeking an AVP, Product Security Architect to provide enterprise-level product security architecture leadership across Synchrony&rsquo;s application and SaaS ecosystem. This role operates at L11 scope&mdash;setting direction, defining standards, and driving adoption at scale&mdash;while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders to embed security into product strategy and modern software delivery.
The AVP will lead the definition of an Application Security Blueprint (reference architectures, approved patterns, and engineering guardrails) and will influence outcomes across multiple portfolios by enabling teams to design and deliver software that is secure-by-design, resilient, and compliant.
Essential Responsibilities:<ul><li>
Set product security architecture direction for assigned portfolios, aligning security architecture decisions with Synchrony technology strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory expectations.</li><li>
Own and evolve the Application Security Blueprint: enterprise application security standards, reference architectures, reusable patterns, and guardrails that enable consistent secure engineering across teams.</li><li>
Serve as a strategic partner to product and engineering leadership, influencing roadmaps and operating models to ensure security is built-in (not bolted-on) and delivery teams can move quickly with well-defined paved roads.</li><li>
Lead architecture governance for product/application security:<ul><li>
establish review criteria and decision frameworks</li><li>
perform design reviews and approve/drive remediation plans</li><li>
manage exceptions with documented risk acceptance, compensating controls, and time-bound closure</li></ul></li><li>
Drive threat modeling at scale by defining methodology and minimum expectations, and by facilitating modeling for high-risk initiatives&mdash;explicitly documenting trust boundaries, data flows, abuse cases, and security requirements.</li><li>
Define and standardize API security architectures (north-south and east-west), including authentication/authorization, token strategy, schema and input validation, anti-automation protections, and rate limiting/throttling patterns.</li><li>
Define patterns for service-to-service security controls in distributed systems, including workload identity, authorization, mTLS, secrets handling, and policy enforcement&mdash;ensuring controls are practical for engineering adoption.</li><li>
Influence and enable secure SDLC and platform controls with engineering enablement in mind (security requirements, pipeline guardrails, dependency/supply-chain controls, secure configuration guidance), partnering with platform teams to operationalize.</li><li>
Establish and track measurable outcomes (e.g., blueprint adoption, recurring architecture risks, API posture improvements, exception burn-down, control coverage for critical apps) and provide clear executive-level reporting.</li><li>
Act as a coach and multiplier: mentor engineers and architects, elevate secure design skills across teams, and improve security decision-making through clear documentation and reusable assets.</li><li>
Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned.</li></ul>
Qualifications/Requirements:<ul><li>
7+ years in security architecture/engineering, with deep focus on application/product security in modern software environments.</li><li>
Demonstrated ability to operate at an enterprise influence level: setting standards, driving cross-team adoption, and aligning stakeholders with differing priorities.</li><li>
Strong hands-on knowledge of application and service security fundamentals: authentication/authorization, session/token security, cryptography concepts, secrets management, secure logging/monitoring design, and secure data handling.</li><li>
Proven experience leading threat modeling and producing strong architecture artifacts (DFDs, trust boundaries, security requirements, risk assessments).</li><li>
Strong knowledge of API security and common web/service risks (e.g., OWASP Top 10 / API Security Top 10), with the ability to translate risks into enforceable patterns.</li><li>
Excellent communication skills&mdash;able to present clearly to engineering teams and senior leaders, and to produce high-quality architecture documentation.</li><li>
Track record of driving security with product teams: embedding security into product planning, influencing roadmaps, defining &ldquo;definition of done&rdquo; security requirements, and improving time-to-market through paved-road patterns.</li><li>
Experience securing and integrating SaaS applications, including SSO/federation (SAML/OIDC), tenant and data isolation considerations, audit logging, and shared responsibility alignment.</li><li>
Experience implementing service-to-service security patterns at scale (workload identity, mTLS, authorization, policy-as-code concepts).</li><li>
Experience operationalizing security standards into engineering consumables (shared libraries, templates, reference implementations, runbooks).</li><li>
Familiarity with CI/CD-based security enablement (SAST/DAST/SCA, secrets scanning, gating/exception workflows) and vulnerability management operating models.</li><li>
Experience supporting regulated environments and mapping architecture controls to policies/standards.</li><li>
Certifications (preferred): CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP (or equivalent).</li><li>
Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required</li></ul>
Desired Characteristics:<ul><li>
Threat modeling tooling;
</li><li>API gateways/policy enforcement; identity and federation (SSO, SAML, OIDC);
</li><li>application security testing (SAST/DAST/SCA/secret scanning);
</li><li>CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub/Jenkins); vulnerability management platforms; logging/monitoring;
</li><li>service mesh/mTLS patterns; secrets management solutions</li></ul>
Grade/Level: 11
The salary range for this position is 115,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD Annual and is eligible for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.
Actual compensation offered within the posted salary range will be based upon work experience, skill level or knowledge.
Salaries are adjusted according to market in CA, NY Metro and Seattle.
Eligibility Requirements:<ul><li>
You must be 18 years or older</li><li>
You must have a high school diploma or equivalent</li><li>
You must be willing to take a drug test, submit to a background investigation and submit fingerprints as part of the onboarding process</li><li>
You must be able to satisfy the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.</li><li>
New hires (Level 4-7) must have 9 months of continuous service with the company before they are eligible to post on other roles. Once this new hire time in position requirement is met, the associate will have a minimum 6 months&rsquo; time in position before they can post for future non-exempt roles. Employees, level 8 or greater, must have at least 18 months&rsquo; time in position before they can post. All internal employees must consistently meet performance expectations and have approval from your manager to post (or the approval of your manager and HR if you don&rsquo;t meet the time in position or performance expectations).</li></ul>
Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Our Commitment:
When you join us, you&rsquo;ll be part of an inclusive culture where your individual skills, experience, and voice are not only heard &ndash; but valued. Together, we&rsquo;re building a future where we can all belong, connect, and turn ideals into action. More than 50% of our workforce is engaged in our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), where community and passion intersect to offer a safe space to learn and grow. 
This starts when you choose to apply for a role at Synchrony. We ensure all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. We&rsquo;re proud to have an award-winning culture for all.
Reasonable Accommodation Notice:
<ul><li>Federal law requires employers to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or to perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include making a change to the application process or work procedures, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.</li><li>
If you need special accommodations, please call our Career Support Line so that we can discuss your specific situation. We can be reached at 1-866-301-5627. Representatives are available from 8am &ndash; 5pm Monday to Friday, Central Standard Time</li></ul>
Job Family Group:
Information Technology</div>

AVP, Product Security Architect

VyStar Credit Union

<div>At VyStar, we offer competitive pay, an excellent benefit package that includes a 401(k) Plan, an extensive paid technical and on-the-job training program, and tuition reimbursement-available to all full and part time employees. Part time positions start at a minimum of 30 hours per week.
We encourage you to become a part of VyStar Credit Union's family of employees.
Associate Security Engineer &ndash; Application &amp; Product Security
ACCOUNTABILITY STATEMENT
 
 
In support of the AVP, Application Product Security, the Application &amp; Product Security Engineer will perform various functions, including the collaboration and assurance of building processes for securing software applications and APIs, ability to create and integrate security standards through assessments, advisement, and coordinating with the AVP in consultative engagements with various business units (directly and via their technology delivery teams). Application Security focuses on partnerships with multiple product teams to drive risk reduction through a thoughtful, targeted, and collaborative model. This role will help to support the AVP in communicating security to many audiences, including business and technical leaders and individual contributors, as well as others within the Information Security Team.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Support Security Enablement via an Agile Method: Support multiple concurrent security integration initiatives with various business units for various development and deployment projects in offset phases within an agile framework with a dedicated staff of specialists through the requirements, design, development, and operating phases.
Support the AVP, Application and Product Security in implementing a robust Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM) function to ensure security and privacy aspects to registration, authentication, self-service, personalization of experience and privacy of member data is secure and meets required regulatory requirements. Specifically,<ul><li>
Supports scalability of platform to meet the needs of members based on product or services enablement.</li><li>
Implement required authentication and identity parameters (e.g., SSO, MFA, geo-location, etc.)</li><li>
Implement attack protection for CIAM across enterprise public-facing platforms through enablement of services such as Web Application Firewall (WAF), DDoS, Bot protections ensuring robust monitoring, alerting and actionable policies are in place to protect against external threats.</li><li>
Support program strategy for API security, mergers and acquisitions evaluations, and open-source security.</li></ul>
Support the AVP, Application and Product Security in the implementation of secure engineering practices such as design &amp; code reviews, API security reviews, threat modeling, penetration testing, continuous integration, and security focused behavior-driven development. Specifically:<ul><li>
Threat Modeling: Support threat modeling for platform/applications/services that deliveries core services to B2B and B2C customers.</li><li>
Secure Software Development: Implement and support security services and practices including static and dynamic scanning and code review, Penetration testing, open and internal sourced component lifecycle management, SDLC policies and standards.</li><li>
Support the design development, and validation of secure code of systems, solutions and processes from a security perspective and premise, hybrid and with multiple cloud providers.</li><li>
Support secure code and API interface reviews with internal and external product teams.</li><li>
Support application security continuous improvement plan and drive execution by driving best practices within teams with respect to security policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines in line with industry leading practices for on-prem, hybrid and cloud specific environments, application and product development.</li><li>
Support secure development through the CI/CD pipelines, toolchains, and operations on secure code practices.</li><li>
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.</li><li>
Maintain and optimize existing APIs for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability.</li><li>
 Support secure API code reviews with internal and external product teams.</li><li>
Support secure API development through the CI/CD pipelines, toolchains, and operations on secure code practices.
</li><li>All employees and business units, as first line of defense, are expected to proactively help identify, assess, manage, and report risks within their domain of work. To enhance a healthy risk culture and support our growth for good pillar, employees will maintain vigilance in safeguarding our operations while ensuring compliance with regulatory mandates. The Risk team serves as the second line of defense by providing risk oversight and credible challenge whereas the Audit team serves as the third line of defense by providing risk assurance.</li></ul>
Incumbent is expected to demonstrate each of the following VyStar Excellence behaviors in performing the duties and responsibilities of their job:<ul><li>
Focus - Focus your full attention by carefully listening to and observing client or member.</li><li>
Connect - Consistently be friendly and approachable. Demonstrate your care.</li><li>
Understand - Listen empathetically and ask questions (70%/30% rule).</li><li>
Counsel - Recommend solutions based on your member&rsquo;s needs and objectives.</li><li>
Advance - Ensure that member&rsquo;s expectations were exceeded.</li><li>
Verify necessary follow-up actions.</li></ul>
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
EDUCATION<ul><li>
High School Diploma or GED required.</li><li>
Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, or another related field is preferred.</li></ul>
CERTIFICATIONS<ul><li>
Security+ and GSEC security certifications are preferred. Career development plan to include certifications upon hire.</li></ul>
EXPERIENCE<ul><li>
0-2+ years Information Security experience.</li><li>
0-2+ years Application/Product Security experience.</li><li>
0-2+ years API Security analyst experience.</li></ul>
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, &amp; ABILITIES<ul><li>
Knowledge of security offerings within one or multiple major cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), etc.) preferred.</li><li>
Knowledge of container and service-oriented security architecture for cloud-based services preferred.</li><li>
Knowledge with a modern SDLC including CI/CD pipelines, cloud architecture, API economies, and container deployment preferred.</li><li>
Knowledge of enterprise applications (support, and troubleshooting) preferred.</li><li>
Knowledge of application security tools, functions, and services similar to Snyk, Veracode, Netsparker, BurpSuite, Imperva, Radware, BugCrowd, SD Elements, OPSWAT, Okta, ThreatMetrix, and Auth0 preferred.</li><li>
 Understanding of OWASP API Security Top 10</li><li>
Demonstrated self-starter with strong analytical skills.</li><li>
Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet established deadlines.</li><li>
Ability to collaborate with business teams on technology &amp; security-related controls, tasks, and projects.</li><li>
Ability to work productively while remote and communicate effectively in a virtual team and on location hybrid work environment.</li><li>
Ability to work within agile and waterfall project methodology.</li><li>
Ability to stay current with new technology.</li><li>
Ability to support appropriate Information Security and Technology standards to meet business requirements.</li></ul>
DISCLAIMERS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT
Nothing in this position description is an implied contract for employment. The position description is intended to be an accurate account of the essential functions. The functions are not all encompassing and are subject to change at any time by management. The work environment characteristics described are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. As required or requested, may exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
VyStar Credit Union is not seeking outside assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies or search firms for employment or contractor opportunities. Any resumes submitted by an outside vendor to any employee at VyStar via e-mail, internet, or directly to hiring managers without a valid written search agreement with the Talent Acquisition / HR department will be deemed the sole property of VyStar Credit Union.
No placement fee will be paid if a candidate is hired as a result of the referral, or through other means.
Thank you for your inquiry regarding our current job opening. Your resume will be carefully reviewed against the position requirements. Should your experience and skills match, you will be contacted by one of our Human Resources department staff members.
Thank you again for your interest in this position!
VyStar Credit Union Human Resources</div>

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