Financial Services - Tax Senior Manager - Security Architect - EDGE

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Richmond, Atlanta, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Iselin, Hoboken, Stamford, Hartford, Washington, McLean, Baltimore, Charlotte, Raleigh, Miami, Boca Raton, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Akron, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis, Austin, St. Louis, Kansas City, New Orleans, Milwaukee

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** The opportunity*
* As part of our Financial Services Organization (FSO), you will be part of a technology organization that develops and maintains innovative solutions for our client-serving Tax professionals. FSO professionals will partner with our Tax professionals to develop supporting technology such as digital tools to improve internal operations, development of advanced financial dashboards, visualization, analytics, and reports.

Our Financial Services EY EDGE practice is made up of a team of professionals providing dedicated tax technical services to both US and global clients. EDGE stands for Exceptional Delivery and Growth Engine because this team operates in a technical environment with deep process and service delivery experience that distinguishes EY in the marketplace.

Join our Tax Technology and Transformation team as an Information Security Architect, where you will be part of a technology organization that develops and maintains innovative solutions for our client-serving Tax professionals. This role will translate enterprise security policy, regulatory expectations, and client requirements into scalable, enforceable controls embedded within engineering, platform, and operational workflows.

** Your key responsibilities*
* + Design and mature information security capabilities across a defined platform or product ecosystem.

+ Translate enterprise policies and security standards into practical control frameworks, design patterns, and implementation guidance.

+ Define target-state security capabilities and drive adoption through repeatable, scalable processes.

+ Establish meaningful metrics to measure control effectiveness, remediation progress, and overall program maturity.

+ Embed security controls into software delivery and cloud engineering workflows, including CI/CD pipelines and pre-deployment validation.

+ Partner with engineering teams to implement secure-by-design practices and preventative controls such as secrets protection, vulnerability gating, and policy enforcement.

+ Promote automation and integration of security tooling to improve detection, prioritization, and remediation workflows.

+ Lead risk identification, prioritization, and remediation planning for assigned platforms and services.

+ Support internal audits, external assessments, regulatory reviews, and client assurance activities.

+ Maintain documentation, control evidence, and implementation artifacts that are clear, defensible, and audit ready.

** Skills and attributes for success*
* + Oversee implementation of security controls across cloud infrastructure, identity, application, and workload environments.

+ Drive continuous monitoring and risk visibility for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and control gaps.

+ Serve as a key interface across Engineering, Architecture, Risk, Compliance, and Information Security teams.

+ Drive alignment on priorities, governance, and remediation strategies across multiple stakeholders.

** To qualify for the role, you must have*
* + Bachelor's degree required (4-year degree) Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Economics and/or a master's degree in Accounting, Tax Technology, Management Information Systems, or Computer Science or related field

+ A minimum of eight years of relevant experience

+ You are required to have one of the following certifications: CPA, EA, JD, Master's degree in business administration, finance, economics, computer science, information systems or engineering, Quantitative Economics or Quants

+ Exposure to the financial services industry, accounting/finance/tax, tax or finance performance improvement, tax software development and/or implementation

+ Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and monitoring them until completion, including documenting requirements, configuration, testing, debugging, project profitability, and tax systems and process configuration

** Ideally, you'll have*
* + Demonstrated experience designing and operationalizing enterprise or platform security programs.

+ Strong understanding of cloud security principles, with experience in Azure or comparable cloud environments.

+ Experience working with audit, compliance, or regulatory frameworks in complex enterprise environments.

+ Experience embedding security into Dev Sec Ops  and CI/CD pipelines.

+ Familiarity with integrated security tooling across areas such as SAST, DAST, SCA,…