Principal Security Architect – Data Protection and Workplace Security

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Lead the strategy, design, and governance of enterprise security architecture across data protection and workplace security domains.

This role is accountable for defining the target‑state security architecture and driving execution across critical capabilities, including data security, enterprise data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), email security, and endpoint protection.

Ensure security solutions are aligned with business priorities, enterprise architecture standards, regulatory requirements, and risk management objectives.

This role partners across security engineering, infrastructure, workplace technology, data platform, architecture, risk, and compliance organizations to drive consistent, scalable, and resilient security outcomes protecting enterprise users, devices, communications, and sensitive data while enabling business agility.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and define the strategic roadmap, standards, and target‑state architecture for data protection and workplace security capabilities.
• Provide enterprise‑wide architectural leadership across data security, enterprise data platforms, email security, and endpoint security domains.
• Enforce architecture governance to ensure security requirements are embedded in business and technology initiatives.
• Drive development and adoption of reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation standards across the enterprise.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, workplace technology, and data platform leaders to enable secure‑by‑design delivery and lifecycle management of security capabilities.
• Continuously assess security posture, identify systemic control gaps, and lead remediation strategies and capability maturity improvements.
• Serve as a senior subject matter expert for data protection and workplace security technologies, including DLP, data classification, encryption, masking, endpoint protection, EDR/XDR, secure email controls, and device hardening.
• Lead architectural strategy for securing modern data platforms, including Snowflake, data lakes, and data warehouse environments.
• Define enterprise patterns for secure data access, protection, monitoring, and governance across data platforms.
• Oversee vendor strategy, product evaluations, and architectural due diligence to ensure alignment with long‑term security strategy.
• Partner with risk, privacy, legal, compliance, and incident response leadership to ensure control alignment and operational effectiveness.
• Lead and influence threat modeling, architecture review processes, and security risk assessments.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise security policies, regulatory obligations, and industry control frameworks.
• Communicate architecture strategy, roadmaps, and risk posture to executive…