Principal Security Architect

Take a Huge step in your career and join Worldwide Flight Services. WFS employs over 22,200 of the finest professionals in ground handling across a global network of more than 170 locations and 22 countries on five continents. A career with us opens up a world of opportunities to develop your existing skills, to learn new skills, and to experience working with different customers and cultures with the sole aim of always delivering a world-class service.

WFS provides a full-service capability that includes Aviation cargo, Airline passenger, and Aviation ramp services. Our team of people is highly trained, highly skilled, and confident airport service professionals who are supported by local training and development. We are passionate, capable, and always willing to explore new opportunities presented by customers all over the world.

Join our Worldwide Flight Services family and contribute to the timely delivery of cargo shipment, luggage, business to customer delivery, and on-time flights while operating safely and securely. We perform at the highest level for our customers every day, and strive to be an exceptional leader in our industry with our teams of cargo, passenger, ramp handling, and technical service experts in 164 airport locations, 18 countries, and on 5 continents.

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The Principal Cybersecurity Architect role is a leadership position preferably with transportation and aviation industry experience who can blend deep technical expertise in security architecture with strategic leadership in policy development and enterprise-wide influence. The successful candidate will be experienced with modern security capabilities and technologies, AI adoption strategies, an ability to lead projects, implement compliance requirements with best practices through designs and patterns, define and drive multi-year security roadmaps aligned to business objectives, and will be a hands-on strategic leader for the organization.

Tracking and adjusting to evolving threats and techniques will also be critical in this role. The main work includes developing and enforcing security architecture policies, providing oversight across diverse projects, and ensuring security controls are integrated into technology solutions that align with compliance and risk tolerance. The ideal candidate acts as a bridge between technical cybersecurity teams and IT business focused leadership, influencing IT strategy through a security lens while mentoring others, strengthening the organization’s overall security posture.

• Serve as principal security advisor, reviewing and influencing solution designs and implementation plans to meet enterprise policies, compliance, and risk tolerance.
• Design, maintain, and evolve reusable security architectural patterns that enable secure-by-design practices across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Collaborate with internal teams to define, refine, and standardize cybersecurity technologies, policies, standards, and control frameworks, ensuring alignment to NIST CSF and ISO 27001.
• Act as a key contributor between cybersecurity teams, IT, and business stakeholders, translating strategic security principles into actionable architectural guidance.
• Develop, maintain, and validate secure implementation of identity, access, monitoring, detection, and response systems, software, and capabilities.
• Support planning and strategy for system hardening, service and API security, devops/CI/CD/code security, and secure configuration of cloud resources and architectures.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews of critical projects to ensure early and continuous integration of security requirements.
• Lead assessments of enterprise-wide architecture in partnership with Risk Management, identifying opportunities for improving resilience, reducing attack surface, and strengthening the overall security posture.
• Monitor and review emerging cybersecurity threats, attack techniques, and regulatory developments to continuously improve policies, patterns, and architectural standards.
• Guide and mentor others, fostering technical growth and…