Staff Security Architect
Choice Hotels International, Inc.2 months ago
Scottsdale, AZ, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead security architecture for an assigned domain, platform, or set of products using enterprise security standards, patterns, and guardrails.
- Perform architecture reviews and threat modeling and translate security risks into actionable design requirements and control recommendations.
- Partner with engineering, product, and operations teams to embed secure-by-design and defense-in-depth practices.
- Develop and maintain reference architectures, design patterns, and implementation guidance.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives involving cloud, IAM, application security, DevSecOps, and data protection.
- Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and platform services.
- Select controls based on risk, regulatory requirements, and operational constraints and provide risk-informed recommendations.
- Document architectural decisions, escalate risks or exceptions, mentor engineers and architects, and communicate tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field required, or equivalent experience.
- 10–14 years of experience in security architecture, including leading cross-functional programs and defining domain standards.
- Demonstrated experience delivering scalable security solutions and measurable risk reduction outcomes.
- Experience producing threat models, reference designs, and architecture decision records.
- Cloud and identity expertise with technologies such as AWS, Okta, CyberArk, CrowdStrike, Tenable, and Snyk.
- Strong understanding of secure design principles and their integration into the SDLC.
- Knowledge of PCI DSS, SOX, GDPR, OWASP, OAuth, and SAML as they relate to system design.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
- Advanced certifications are preferred, including CISSP, CCSP, CISM, CRISC, SABSA, Security+, or a relevant GIAC certification.
- Ability to demonstrate technical expertise, influence and collaboration, and problem-solving and decision quality.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious-observance leave.
- Retirement and health savings benefits.
- Employee recognition programs.
- Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide.
- Individual contributor role with four days onsite in the North Scottsdale office.
About Choice Hotels International, Inc.
Choice Hotels International is a public lodging franchisor with a portfolio of brands including Comfort, Quality Inn, Clarion, Cambria, Sleep Inn, Econo Lodge, and the Ascend Hotel Collection, serving leisure and business travelers. It earns primarily from franchise fees and reservation, loyalty, and technology services provided to independently owned hotels. Founded in 1939 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, Choice trades on the NYSE (CHH) and franchises thousands of properties across the U.S. and internationally.