Cyber Security Architect - ZTNA

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC? Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact.

We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high‑quality information through activities that include development of essential building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well‑being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well‑being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

Being a member of IT Cybersecurity and Platform Strategy team, you will lead the design, governance, and implementation of enterprise Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and Secure Service Edge (SSE) capabilities. This role is a hybrid of architecture leadership, governance oversight, and hands‑on technical engagement, supporting secure access modernization across a complex, regulated financial services environment.

• Define and maintain enterprise ZTNA and SSE target‑state architectures, roadmaps, and transition strategies aligned with DTCC security principles.
• Establish and document Zero Trust architecture standards, including identity‑centric access, least‑privilege enforcement, continuous verification, and segmentation.
• Develop and maintain architecture artifacts, including reference architectures and solution patterns, High‑Level Designs (HLDs) and Low‑Level Designs (LLDs), Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Serve as the design authority for secure access and connectivity initiatives.

• Translate enterprise security, regulatory, and risk requirements into enforceable architectural guardrails for ZTNA/SSE platforms.
• Ensure access architectures support policy consistency and traceability, exception management and approvals, periodic access reviews and recertification, audit and regulatory evidence requirements.
• Participate in architecture review boards, security design reviews, and governance forums as the ZTNA/SSE subject‑matter expert.

• Lead and actively participate in platform design and configuration, proof‑of‑concepts and pilot implementations, migration initiatives (including VPN modernization).
• Architect and guide implementation of SSE capabilities, including Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Firewall‑as‑a‑Service (FWaaS) where applicable.
• Integration with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) services.
• Design secure access models for workforce access to internal and cloud‑hosted applications, third‑party and vendor access, privileged and high‑risk access scenarios.

• Design and maintain solutions across a multi‑vendor ZTNA/SSE ecosystem, including Zscaler, Cisco security and secure access platforms, Akamai…