Senior Product Security Architect

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting‑edge solutions like Zelle, Paze, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment visa sponsorship.

This position consults with Project Management, Product Management, Product Development and Engineering teams to enable them to build and enhance security in EWS products and services in line with EWS and industry standards. This position is highly technical and will lead Product Security efforts in maturing our product security program, mentor others, and be a hands‑on partner to our product teams to deliver innovative and secure products to our customers.

• Complete the identification, measurement, control and minimization of security risks to information systems across a broad range of disciplines including application and host security.
• Develop repeatable application security architectures working with internal and external partners to ensure that systems are placed within the relevant security zones based on the data they house and their purpose.
• Serve as the point of contact for all product security issues in assigned areas.
• Work with architecture teams to ensure that all newly developed and legacy applications and infrastructure implementations are in line with security policy and are compliant to the required frameworks (ISO, PCI, OWASP, NIST 800‑53, etc.).
• Advise and approve changes and architectures for assigned areas from a security perspective.
• Evaluate all product business cases—including functional and detailed design specs—to ensure security standards are met.
• Assist in the security incident response process as assigned.
• Contribute to the development of Early Warning security policy and procedures.
• Develop threat models, design and develop security architectures and publish reference architecture/patterns for products and drive company wide adoption.
• Document and evaluate the present risks and security issues that could impact the confidentiality, integrity and/or availability of the business by assisting in documentation, tracking and creating solutions for mitigation.
• Lead efforts to work with internal and external penetration testing organizations to effectively scope product pentests that help identify and mitigate gaps in security controls.
• Manage efforts with Product Development and Engineering teams to perform security analysis on all internally developed products and services.
• Interact with customer banks to gather yearly testing and security requirements, review penetration testing findings, mitigating controls and/or projects to rectify security vulnerabilities.
• Drive product and stakeholder team efforts in building cloud‑native applications by incorporating cloud security and microservices security best practices and industry standards.
• Drive product security efforts in evaluating new technology stacks and frameworks that help stakeholder and business teams deliver innovative and secure solutions.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or Physical Science.
• Typically 10 or more years of engineering, IT, or Information Security experience with a combined 6 years of application security or security architecture or consulting or related IT or information security experience.
• Advanced knowledge of relational databases, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
• Effective interpersonal skills, with ability to present to peers and…