Senior Security Architect - Bridgewater Associates

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world's markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

Our Culture

Bridgewater's unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other's logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About the Security Group:

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. The Security Department's mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape.

About the Role: 

Our team is looking to hire a hire a Senior Architect to drive the security architecture of cutting-edge technology underlying the company's applications and services to define and implement secure-by-default and defense-in-depth strategies. This individual will play a leadership role in the security department and development communities, setting direction for key technologies and serving as a subject matter expert. A key portion of this role will be to secure and provide programmatic improvements broadly to services, making technical trade-offs between short- and long-term business goals.  

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Shape the security design of the company's applications and services to define and implement secure-by-default and defense-in-depth strategies across a functional area
• Advise, oversee and audit the secure delivery of technology solutions across their architectural lifecycle throughout the entirety of the SDLC
• Partner deeply with other security functions, including Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) to ensure quality risk governance decisions in support of business outcomes
• Evaluate and prioritize risks, both directly through activities like threat modeling, and via deep partnership with security knowledgeable colleagues in Technology
• Hold control owners accountable to have clear capability definitions for their control, with an understanding of gaps and prioritized potential solutions for those gaps
• Coordinate with Security Engineering on the prioritization and execution of industrialized controls to close our most important gaps
• Ensure that Security and Tech leadership are equipped with accurate pictures for a given area – including the risks, controls, value proposition, and state of underpinning technology

Position Requirements

• S. or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience 
• 5+ years of security architecture experience 
• Proven track-record of operating with a high degree of confidentiality and responsibility 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to author and present materials ranging from detailed technical specifications to high-level presentations for consumption by technical/business stakeholders and by senior management 
• Preferred cloud experience and qualifications: Microsoft, AWS, or Google architecture, development, and operations. 
• Preferred security qualifications: CISSP, CCSK/CCSP, CISSP-ISSEP/ISSAP, CSSLP, SABSA SCF/SCP/SCM 

Physical Requirements

This role is offered with fully-remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $335,000 - $475,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

• Learning how to build teams that span levels and organizations
• Developing rich expertise across a broad set of finance operations problems and principles
• Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes.
• Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience.
• Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
• For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer