Job Overview
PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Enterprise Security Architect at our Tysons, Virginia location. The Enterprise IT Security Architect is a senior security architecture partner to the First Line IT organization. This role ensures security requirements are effectively translated into practical, scalable designs and operating practices that support business outcomes while meeting enterprise risk and compliance obligations.
The architect serves as the critical bridge between First Line IT and Second Line Cyber Security, ensuring second-line control requirements are clearly understood, appropriately interpreted, and consistently incorporated into first line-managed platforms, solutions, and delivery practices.
Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties, and the position will perform other duties as assigned.
Security Architecture & Design
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Partner with First Line IT teams to define and validate security functional requirements across applications, infrastructure, cloud, data, and enterprise platforms.
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Design and maintain 1st line security architecture standards, reference architectures, and patterns aligned to business strategy, regulatory expectations, and cyber risk posture.
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Review and influence technology designs to ensure security is embedded early and by default.
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Evaluate new technologies and platforms to ensure secure adoption and enterprise alignment.
First Line IT Enablement & Support
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Serve as the primary security architecture contact for assigned IT domains, platforms, or portfolios.
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Provide hands-on architectural guidance, issue resolution, and design support for security-related challenges.
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Translate security policies, standards, and control objectives into actionable guidance that delivery and operations teams can implement.
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Enable secure agile, DevOps, and cloud operating models by embedding security into SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and operational processes.
Partnership with Second Line Cyber Security
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Actively partner with Second Line Cyber Security to ensure security control requirements, risk expectations, and policy interpretations are clearly understood and consistently applied.
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Incorporate second-line security requirements into First Line-managed platforms, guardrails, and engineering practices.
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Support alignment between architectural decisions and enterprise cyber risk management frameworks.
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Facilitate efficient issue resolution, risk discussions, and exception handling between first- and second-line teams.
Qualifications
Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
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12+ years of experience in enterprise IT, security architecture, or cybersecurity roles.
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Strong understanding of enterprise security domains, including IAM, cloud security, application security, infrastructure security, and data protection.
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Demonstrated experience supporting first-line IT delivery teams while aligning to second-line risk and control expectations.
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Excellent communication and influencing skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Experience in using A.I. tools preferred.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position will not supervise employees.
Licenses and Certifications
One or more of the following certifications are required:
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Industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CISM, SABSA, TOGAF).
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Experience in regulated industries (e.g., financial services).
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Familiarity with zero trust architectures, secure SDLC, and cloud-native security controls.
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Experience operating in product-centric, agile, or DevOps environments.
Work Environment
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.
*Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*
Travel
Ability to travel to various worksites and be on call is required.
Pay Transparency
The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $121,800.00 - $239,324.00
This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval.
This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.
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Benefits
At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You'll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.
Our Purpose
Helping members achieve their dreams since 1935. Pentagon Federal Credit Union (PenFed) is one of America's largest federal credit unions, serving 2.8 million members worldwide with $29 billion in assets. PenFed offers market-leading certificates, checking and savings, credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, auto loans, and a wide range of other financial services, always with members' interests in mind. PenFed is federally insured by the NCUA and is an Equal Housing Lender.
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices PenFed Realty, LLC is a full-service real estate company ready to assist our clients with buying, selling and renting a home. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of PenFed Credit Union and is the largest independently-owned brokerage in the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices network, placing us in the top 1% of all real estate brokerages in the country. With almost 60 offices and nearly 2,000 world-class sales professionals, we offer complete service coverage in Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Kansas and Texas. In addition, we also offer specialized client services which include management of vacation properties and long-term rentals, corporate relocation services and national referral network.
Equal Employment Opportunity
PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same. PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at
[email protected] .
