SIU Investigator - Part Time (Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

Director of Product Security Architecture

As the Lead Architect and Director of Product Security Architecture for Dematic, you will be critical to the advancement of security throughout the company, enabling the success and growth of the business in an environment of increasing demands for comprehensive and robust product security. Under the Vice President of Global Product Security, you will provide strategic and expertly informed technical security leadership to the product development, execution, sales, and support organizations across Dematic. You will be responsible for defining a broad and detailed technical strategy for security that encompasses all Dematic products, including next-gen software solutions, existing software solutions, and operational technology solutions. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the development of truly secure products and the operation of those products in a robustly secure environment by providing best-in-class architectural guidance and vision, while passionately pursuing personal and organizational excellence in the field of security.

You will collaborate with senior technology leadership and engineering teams to both define and implement the vision and strategy of the Product Security organization. You will inspire, guide, and support our development, execution, and customer-facing teams as they continuously progress toward greater maturity with respect to security knowledge and practice. You will be relied upon as an essential resource to proactively and efficiently defend our systems and data from attack, while ensuring that the security of our products meets and exceeds all relevant regulatory requirements.

What you will do in this role:

• Provide strategic and expertly informed technical security leadership to globally distributed product development, execution, sales, and support organizations across Dematic.
• Define technical security strategy that encompasses all Dematic products, including next-gen software solutions, existing software solutions, and operational technology solutions.
• Collaborate with senior leadership to both define and implement the vision and strategy of the Product Security organization.
• Drive advancement of technical and operational capabilities necessary to implement a robust product security strategy.
• Provide guidance and leadership for all efforts to build security into every aspect of Dematic’s product development lifecycle.
• Perform technical security risk assessments of internally developed as well as third-party products and systems.
• Advise and educate development teams with respect to application, cloud, and product security best practices.
• Build and maintain high-trust, highly collaborative relationships with teams and individuals across the organization.
• Mentor application, infrastructure, and operational technology security engineers.
• Provide guidance in response to product security incidents.
• Continuously learn and evaluate industry trends and technical developments in the product and cloud security domains.
• Perform research into and present on relevant security technology, practices, and threats.
• Work closely with a team of security staff to ensure company products and services withstand all foreseen and reasonable attacks.
• Engage with product management, customer sales/support, and other functions as needed to further business development from a security perspective.

What we are looking for:

• Expert knowledge of application and cloud security principles, patterns, and techniques.
• Expert threat modeling skills.
• Expert knowledge of AWS, GCP, and/or Azure security models and best practices.
• High proficiency in identity and access management technology, principles, and patterns.
• High proficiency in container-based/Kubernetes deployments, serverless architectures, and DevSecOps practices.
• Proficiency in applied cryptography and security tools.
• Strong ability to recognize competing risk mitigation strategies and make wise, business-conscious tradeoffs.
• Highly flexible in decision-making in uncertain environments.
• Passionate and quick learner, self-driven, and highly motivated.
• Strong ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear language for non-technical staff.
• Outstanding written and spoken communication skills, including public speaking.

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.