A Lead of Integrated Cybersecurity Architecture is responsible for evangelizing the agreed upon cybersecurity architectural principles, standards, and design patterns, and advising engineering teams on how to build secure products and enterprise tools for multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This role is focused on being an integrated member of the product and engineering teams. A separate function defines the architecture guidelines that this role is responsible for advising the teams on how to implement.

By having deep cybersecurity knowledge in the design and build of secure software products and tools in both multi-cloud and on-premises environments, this role will partner with and influence direct and cross-functional teams throughout the organization and collaborate cross-functionally to solve cybersecurity risks that are unique to a business unit’s risk profile and products.

This role will report directly to a Director of Integrated Cybersecurity Architecture at Cox Automotive.

Primary Responsibilities

• Communicate cybersecurity guidelines to engineering and business teams and support their adoption of the guidelines.

• Be integrated with and in continuous contact with engineering teams to advise on their architecture decisions and assist with cybersecurity control implementation.

• Engage with cybersecurity peers to create a cohesive cybersecurity department and share back internally regarding business specific activities. Act as the on the ground cybersecurity security representative to the product and engineering teams.

• Partner with enterprise architecture, infrastructure and engineering teams to review existing architecture, identify gaps and recommend security enhancements.

• Design and implement agentic security review frameworks that leverage AI-powered tools to automate threat modeling, code analysis, and security requirement validation for new product features throughout the development lifecycle

• Lead AI red teaming initiatives to identify vulnerabilities, bias, prompt injection risks, and adversarial attack vectors in AI-powered features and machine learning systems prior to production deployment ensuring adherence to agreed upon guardrails.

• Participate in security events and incident response to identify gaps in current design and propose solutions to prevent threats from reoccurring.

• Support third‑party penetration testing engagements, including scoping definition, test execution oversight, and surfacing risk insights to stakeholders.

• Partner with the legal and security governance, risk and compliance teams to ensure that cybersecurity architecture enables compliance with relevant regulatory and contractual requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 6 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 4 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 1 year of experience in a related field; or 10 years’ experience in a related field.

• At least 4 years focused on cybersecurity.

• Relevant experience with designing, securing, or operating AWS infrastructure and services.

• Clearly articulate the objective of specific cybersecurity policies and procedures to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Excellent customer service skills, writing, and executive presentation skills.

• Develop a strong and productive working environment with key stakeholders and collaborate closely with other Cox entities’ cybersecurity teams to implement cybersecurity best practices.

• Consultative nature to work through controversial or complex topics to employees, leaders, and/or senior leadership.

• Evaluate risks and recommend actions based on impact and likelihood of the risk to the business.

• Knowledge of current cybersecurity and technology architectures such as zero trust, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, virtualization, containerization, DevSecOps, and software-defined networking across a variety of environments and deployments.

• Creatively solving complex cybersecurity challenges while exhibiting solid, pragmatic business acumen.

• Experience utilizing Agile methodologies.

• Initiating change and deploying solutions in Fortune 1000 companies.

• Knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., ISO 27000, NIST, FFIEC) and industry relevant regulations that will guide architectural requirements (e.g., GDPR, FFIEC, GLBA).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the development and design of cybersecurity standard methodologies to all layers of the hosting and application stack in both cloud and on-premises environments.

• Knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM), cryptography / key management, secrets management, access controls and security protocols (e.g., multi-factor, SAML, OAuth, OIDC).

• Experience with application security implementations and standard methodologies.

• Extensive technology knowledge and recognized expertise in several areas including Python, .NET, Java, Spring frameworks, SQL/noSQL databases, serverless, cloud patterns, cloud service and user authentication or similar.

• Experience with firewall, web application firewalls, and other edge services as well as deep understanding of DMZ and other network architectures.

• A strong understanding of the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Experience establishing a strategy for and implementing cloud enterprise solutions in AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• A strong understanding of cloud containers and/or serverless platforms (e.g., EKS, ECS, Lambda, Fargate).

• Knowledge of AI/ML security principles including adversarial machine learning, prompt injection techniques, model security testing, and emerging AI threat landscapes

• Hands-on experience with agentic AI tools, security automation frameworks, or large language model applications for security analysis, code review, or threat detection

• Big four consulting or Fortune 500 company experience.

• Relevant industry certification (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP, Azure, AWS, CISM, CRISC).