Senior Manager, Security Architecture

Your Impact:

• Lead the security architecture practice: define how architecture review works at Anaplan, what gets reviewed, when, by whom, and against which bar.
• Own the reusable patterns: drive security reference architectures, identity and authorisation patterns, cryptography architecture, and AI guardrail design as living standards that engineering adopts by default.
• Set security engineering principles: establish and maintain the standards that shape how the platform is built, and keep them legible and usable for engineers.
• Review the highest-risk designs: lead architecture and design reviews for major platform and AI changes, early enough to influence them.
• Partner with platform engineering: engage directly on the Hyperblock and Polaris surface and the AI product line so architecture reflects how the platform genuinely works.
• Support compliance by design: ensure security architecture meets the demands of the enterprise and regulated environments Anaplan's customers operate in.
• Codify decisions into policy-as-code: turn architecture decisions into enforceable, version-controlled guardrails wherever that reduces toil rather than adding it.
• Build and develop the team: hire, coach, calibrate, and mentor the architecture team, and hold a consistent technical bar.

Your Qualifications:

• A track record building or leading security architecture in a SaaS or cloud-first environment, with scope across multiple teams.
• Deep architecture credibility: identity and authorisation, cryptography, secure-by-design, and threat modelling at scale.
• Enough hands-on depth to challenge weak designs on their merits; this is a security leader who stays technically credible, not purely managerial.
• People-leadership judgement: hiring, coaching, calibrating a senior team, and making hard calls on performance.
• Experience aligning architecture to enterprise and regulated environments.
• A clear, non-hyped view of how AI changes the architecture surface: identity, authorisation, supply-chain integrity, and the need for guardrails.

Nice to have

• Working familiarity with AI security standards and references such as the NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, MITRE ATLAS, or the OWASP LLM Top 10.
• Hands-on experience with policy-as-code and turning standards into enforced controls.
• Contributions to security standards, frameworks, or industry practice.

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