Lead Cybersecurity Architect (Atlanta)

Cybersecurity Architecture Lead

Role Overview

The Cybersecurity Architecture Lead provides strategic and hands-on security expertise to technology and product teams, ensuring that systems are designed and built with security embedded from the outset. This role works across cloud and enterprise platforms to guide secure architecture decisions, reduce risk, and promote consistent security design patterns throughout the organization.

The ideal candidate brings a strong technical foundation in modern infrastructure, the ability to influence cross-functional teams, and the skill to translate security principles into scalable, real-world solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted security advisor to engineering and product teams, embedding security considerations into system and application design.
• Guide teams on secure architecture patterns and support implementation of technical security controls.
• Conduct architectural risk assessments and threat modeling for enterprise platforms and customer-facing solutions.
• Provide security architecture input across large initiatives, platforms, and solution domains.
• Collaborate with other security leaders to maintain consistency across policies, standards, and architectural approaches.
• Act as the primary security point of contact for assigned technology and engineering groups.
• Review existing architectures to identify gaps, weaknesses, and opportunities for security improvement.
• Participate in incident response activities and lead architectural remediation planning following security events.
• Promote security awareness by coaching architects and engineers on secure design principles and evolving industry practices.
• Partner with governance, legal, and compliance stakeholders to ensure solutions align with regulatory, contractual, and internal requirements.

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications