Title: Information Security Architect

Rate: $60–63/hour

Location: Remote

Job Description

• As a Senior Lead Security Architect, you will lead security architecture efforts for large-scale, customer-facing initiatives across web, mobile, APIs, property, and payments platforms, supporting hundreds of millions of global users, partners, and internal stakeholders.

• With a strong background in software engineering, product security, and application security, you will integrate with delivery teams as a Product and Software Security SME, providing consultation and collaboration to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, and aligned with enterprise and industry security standards.

• Provide recommendations on security requirements, architecture patterns, and security controls to safeguard customer-facing platforms and services.

• Design and review product solution architectures to ensure they are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise architecture models.

• Define security designs and guardrails to prevent common threats such as:

  • Account takeover and credential stuffing

  • Authorization vulnerabilities

  • Request tampering

  • Injection attacks

  • Bot abuse and automated attacks

  • Sensitive data exposure
    
    Translate threat scenarios into actionable architecture requirements and reusable security patterns.

• Own and evolve security reference architectures and standards for customer-facing platforms, including:

  • API security (authentication/authorization patterns, identity propagation, rate limiting, schema validation)

  • Customer identity solutions (OAuth 2.1, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0)

  • Cloud security on AWS (least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, encryption and key management, secrets management, logging and monitoring strategies, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code guardrails)

• Design and review secure architectures for AI-enabled features, including:

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines

  • Agent-based workflows

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations
    
    Ensure privacy, integrity, and protection against misuse by defining guardrails for data ingestion, tool permissions, sensitive data handling, output controls, and auditing.

• Contribute to the development, review, and adoption of enterprise security standards and best practices to address evolving threats and industry advancements.

• Participate in governance processes for platform and application security, ensuring compliance with technology standards and regulatory requirements.

• Develop, document, and maintain security reference architectures and security standards.

• Partner effectively with business and technology stakeholders, clearly communicating security design decisions and recommendations.

Collaboration

• Work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, development, platform, and operations.

• Ensure security is integrated throughout the system lifecycle, from architecture and design through deployment and ongoing operations.

Key Responsibilities / Deliverables

• Lead security architecture for product delivery, defining secure-by-default patterns and architecture guardrails to reduce vulnerabilities and operational risk.

• Contribute to the ongoing development and adoption of security standards and best practices.

• Design and maintain advanced security reference architectures aligned with enterprise architecture across:

  • Web, mobile, and API platforms

  • AWS cloud environments

  • AI-enabled systems and integrations

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in technology or a related field.

• 3+ years of experience in software development or enterprise architecture.

• 5+ years of combined experience in areas such as:

  • Product Security

  • Enterprise Architecture

  • Identity and Access Management (IAM)

  • Cloud Security

  • Cryptography

  • AI Security

  • Payment Security

• Strong understanding of Customer Identity and Authentication technologies, including:

  • OAuth 2.0 / OAuth 2.1

  • OpenID Connect

  • SAML 2.0

  • API security patterns

  • AWS IAM security

• Solid cryptography fundamentals, payment security patterns, and knowledge of fraud prevention solutions.

• Familiarity with major security and compliance frameworks, including:

  • PCI DSS

  • GDPR

  • CCPA

  • NIST 800-53

  • SOC 2

  • ISO 27001

  • PSD2 / SCA

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  
  (or equivalent experience).

• 2+ years experience as a Senior Security Architect.

• Cybersecurity certifications such as:

  • CISSP

  • AWS Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional)

  • AWS Security Specialty

• 3+ years of software engineering or software development experience.

• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder collaboration skills.

• Experience working within the hospitality industry is a plus.

   

  Our Benefits Package Includes:

• Comprehensive medical benefits

• Competitive pay

• 401(k) retirement plan

• …and much more!

• Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business goals and culture. Our services include a variety of professional, project, and talent-based solutions.

  By focusing on excellence and people-first partnerships, we deliver the right solutions to the right opportunities.
  
  Learn more at inspyrsolutions.com.

  INSPYR Solutions is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination of any kind.

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