Application Security Architect Cloud

JOB REQUIREMENTS: CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. We are seeking an Application Security Architect to join our growing technology team. How You'll Create Opportunities The Application Security Architect will bridge application security architecture, engineering, DevOps, and cloud security. In this role, you will lead and support secure design reviews for proprietary and third-party solutions, assess technical and data flows, and identify the security controls needed to protect CLA's technology environment. You will also provide technical governance and automation support for security controls across CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions and workflows, infrastructure as code, containers, cloud environments, and the software supply chain. A key focus of this position will be establishing a Cloud Security Posture Management practice that connects cloud infrastructure security with automated development workflows. In this role, you will: Lead and participate in secure design reviews for proprietary, commercial, cloud, and hybrid solutions. Document identified risks, required mitigations, risk owners, exceptions, and residual-risk decisions. Review system interaction diagrams and detailed logical, functional, physical, and data-flow diagrams. Identify trust boundaries, security boundaries, integration points, administrative interfaces, data stores, and external dependencies. Develop reusable security standards, assessment patterns, review templates, control baselines, and architectural guidance. Establish and build a Cloud Security Posture Management practice by coordinating the appropriate people, processes, technology, governance, and service expectations. Assess cloud permissions, secrets management, deployment architecture, infrastructure as code, container images, orchestration configurations, and cloud-native deployment patterns. Identify opportunities to prevent configuration issues and policy violations before deployment through policy-as-code, automated validation, and reusable engineering guardrails. Provide technical security leadership across Development, Cloud, Platform, Product, Data, Information Technology, Enterprise Architecture, and Risk teams. Connect code, pipeline, identity, integration, data, and cloud architecture risks to practical security controls and business outcomes. Distinguish mandatory security requirements from... For full info follow application link. CLA is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law. EOE/AA Employer/Vets/Disability ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/A958784A4D144FBE