{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3beffd2abbd502b357cc69cb","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3beffd2abbd502b357cc69cb","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3beffd2abbd502b357cc69cb","title":"Security Architect","description":"Contract to Hire\nSalary: Open\nBill Rate: Open\nLocation: Bloomington, MN. Hybrid: (Onsite Tue, Wed, Thur)\n\nTop Skills:\nApplication Security\nAWS Cloud & Platform Security\nDevSecOps\nTooling Familiarity\nLocal to Twin Cities\n\nApplication Security - Secure design, secure coding principles, API security, authentication, authorization, session management, input validation, dependency risk, and data protection.\n\nCloud and platform security - Cloud security principles, network segmentation, workload identity, secrets management, container security, infrastructure-as-code security, and least-privilege design.\n\nDevSecOps - Security integration with CI/CD pipelines, automated controls, security gates, vulnerability triage, build/release enforcement, and developer feedback loops.\n\nArchitecture and governance - Reference architectures, design review practices, risk-based decisions, policy creation, reusable patterns, exception handling, and architecture guardrails.\n\nTooling familiarity Experience - with tools such as GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, Snyk, Datadog, Azure Defender/Security Center, vulnerability scanners, container scanners, or equivalent platforms.\n-\n\nIdeas Revenue Solutions\nSecurity Architect\nLocation: Bloomington, MN (Weekly Hybrid)\nContract to Hire\n\nThis role acts as a strategic partner to engineering, architecture, product, platform, and operations teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. The Security Architect will define security standards, lead security assessments of mission-critical applications, guide remediation, implement scalable security capabilities, and help build a culture where security is everyone’s responsibility.\n\nThe ideal candidate combines hands-on technical depth, architectural judgment, organizational influence, and automation-first thinking to improve security posture across modern cloud-based, distributed software platforms.\n\nTechnical Skills:\nApplication Security - Secure design, secure coding principles, API security, authentication, authorization, session management, input validation, dependency risk, and data protection.\n\nCloud and platform security - Cloud security principles, network segmentation, workload identity, secrets management, container security, infrastructure-as-code security, and least-privilege design.\n\nDevSecOps - Security integration with CI/CD pipelines, automated controls, security gates, vulnerability triage, build/release enforcement, and developer feedback loops.\n\nArchitecture and governance - Reference architectures, design review practices, risk-based decisions, policy creation, reusable patterns, exception handling, and architecture guardrails.\n\nTooling familiarity Experience - with tools such as GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, Snyk, Datadog, Azure Defender/Security Center, vulnerability scanners, container scanners, or equivalent platforms.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nSecurity Governance and Architecture\nDefine, maintain, and evolve enterprise security policies, standards, patterns, and architectural guardrails.\nEstablish security governance processes that integrate with architecture reviews, roadmap planning, project delivery, and operational practices.\nDevelop reusable security reference architectures for common product and platform patterns.\nPartner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure security requirements are reflected in platform strategies, modernization efforts, and engineering standards.\nAlign security practices to relevant industry frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST SSDF, OWASP, ISO 27001, and\nSOC 2 where applicable.\n\nApplication Security\nReview mission-critical applications and services for architectural and implementation-level security risk.\nLead threat modeling exercises and identify risks early in solution design.\nReview vulnerability findings and provide clear, risk-based remediation guidance to engineering teams.\nPartner with development teams to improve secure coding practices and reduce repeat vulnerability patterns.\nDefine practical security requirements for APIs, distributed systems, identity flows, data handling, cloud-native services, and AI-enabled capabilities.\n\nPlatform Security Capabilities\nPartner with platform engineering teams to implement security capabilities that improve the security posture of all product teams.\nAdvance tooling and controls for SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, dependency management, container security, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and CI/CD enforcement.\nDesign automated controls that can be embedded into build, test, release, and deployment pipelines.\nDevelop security metrics and dashboards that provide leadership visibility into vulnerability backlog, remediation progress, policy adherence, and platform risk.\nPromote secure-by-default capabilities that reduce security burden on individual product teams.\n\nSecurity Awareness and Enablement\nEstablish and lead a Security Champions model across engineering teams.\nSecurity Architect Job Description | IDeaS\nDeliver targeted security awareness and secure development enablement for developers, architects, product owners, and technical leaders.\nProvide consultative coaching to teams without becoming a delivery bottleneck.\nCreate practical guidance, playbooks, and reusable examples that make secure behavior easier to adopt.\nPromote a culture of shared accountability where security is built into normal engineering practice.\n\nSecurity Automation\nAutomate security governance and validation processes to reduce manual review overhead.\nImprove automated vulnerability detection, triage, and remediation workflows.\nPartner with teams to build automated policy checks, compliance evidence, and exception tracking where appropriate.\nContinuously evaluate tools and platform investments that improve security outcomes at scale.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\n8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, application security, cloud security, or security architecture.\n3+ years in a security-focused technical leadership or architecture role.\nDemonstrated experience securing cloud-native applications, distributed systems, APIs, and CI/CD delivery models.\nHands-on experience with secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and engineering remediation workflows.\nAbility to influence architects, engineers, and leaders through practical guidance, clear tradeoff analysis, and collaborative problem solving.","company":"C4 Technical Services","rawCompany":"c4 technical services","city":"Minnesota","state":"GA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-06T15:43:01.202Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.05","title":"Information Security Engineers","slug":"information-security-engineers"},{"code":"15-1212.00","title":"Information Security Analysts","slug":"information-security-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Security Architect","description":"Contract to Hire\nSalary: Open\nBill Rate: Open\nLocation: Bloomington, MN. Hybrid: (Onsite Tue, Wed, Thur)\n\nTop Skills:\nApplication Security\nAWS Cloud & Platform Security\nDevSecOps\nTooling Familiarity\nLocal to Twin Cities\n\nApplication Security - Secure design, secure coding principles, API security, authentication, authorization, session management, input validation, dependency risk, and data protection.\n\nCloud and platform security - Cloud security principles, network segmentation, workload identity, secrets management, container security, infrastructure-as-code security, and least-privilege design.\n\nDevSecOps - Security integration with CI/CD pipelines, automated controls, security gates, vulnerability triage, build/release enforcement, and developer feedback loops.\n\nArchitecture and governance - Reference architectures, design review practices, risk-based decisions, policy creation, reusable patterns, exception handling, and architecture guardrails.\n\nTooling familiarity Experience - with tools such as GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, Snyk, Datadog, Azure Defender/Security Center, vulnerability scanners, container scanners, or equivalent platforms.\n-\n\nIdeas Revenue Solutions\nSecurity Architect\nLocation: Bloomington, MN (Weekly Hybrid)\nContract to Hire\n\nThis role acts as a strategic partner to engineering, architecture, product, platform, and operations teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. The Security Architect will define security standards, lead security assessments of mission-critical applications, guide remediation, implement scalable security capabilities, and help build a culture where security is everyone’s responsibility.\n\nThe ideal candidate combines hands-on technical depth, architectural judgment, organizational influence, and automation-first thinking to improve security posture across modern cloud-based, distributed software platforms.\n\nTechnical Skills:\nApplication Security - Secure design, secure coding principles, API security, authentication, authorization, session management, input validation, dependency risk, and data protection.\n\nCloud and platform security - Cloud security principles, network segmentation, workload identity, secrets management, container security, infrastructure-as-code security, and least-privilege design.\n\nDevSecOps - Security integration with CI/CD pipelines, automated controls, security gates, vulnerability triage, build/release enforcement, and developer feedback loops.\n\nArchitecture and governance - Reference architectures, design review practices, risk-based decisions, policy creation, reusable patterns, exception handling, and architecture guardrails.\n\nTooling familiarity Experience - with tools such as GitHub Advanced Security, SonarQube, Snyk, Datadog, Azure Defender/Security Center, vulnerability scanners, container scanners, or equivalent platforms.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nSecurity Governance and Architecture\nDefine, maintain, and evolve enterprise security policies, standards, patterns, and architectural guardrails.\nEstablish security governance processes that integrate with architecture reviews, roadmap planning, project delivery, and operational practices.\nDevelop reusable security reference architectures for common product and platform patterns.\nPartner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure security requirements are reflected in platform strategies, modernization efforts, and engineering standards.\nAlign security practices to relevant industry frameworks such as NIST CSF, NIST SSDF, OWASP, ISO 27001, and\nSOC 2 where applicable.\n\nApplication Security\nReview mission-critical applications and services for architectural and implementation-level security risk.\nLead threat modeling exercises and identify risks early in solution design.\nReview vulnerability findings and provide clear, risk-based remediation guidance to engineering teams.\nPartner with development teams to improve secure coding practices and reduce repeat vulnerability patterns.\nDefine practical security requirements for APIs, distributed systems, identity flows, data handling, cloud-native services, and AI-enabled capabilities.\n\nPlatform Security Capabilities\nPartner with platform engineering teams to implement security capabilities that improve the security posture of all product teams.\nAdvance tooling and controls for SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, dependency management, container security, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and CI/CD enforcement.\nDesign automated controls that can be embedded into build, test, release, and deployment pipelines.\nDevelop security metrics and dashboards that provide leadership visibility into vulnerability backlog, remediation progress, policy adherence, and platform risk.\nPromote secure-by-default capabilities that reduce security burden on individual product teams.\n\nSecurity Awareness and Enablement\nEstablish and lead a Security Champions model across engineering teams.\nSecurity Architect Job Description | IDeaS\nDeliver targeted security awareness and secure development enablement for developers, architects, product owners, and technical leaders.\nProvide consultative coaching to teams without becoming a delivery bottleneck.\nCreate practical guidance, playbooks, and reusable examples that make secure behavior easier to adopt.\nPromote a culture of shared accountability where security is built into normal engineering practice.\n\nSecurity Automation\nAutomate security governance and validation processes to reduce manual review overhead.\nImprove automated vulnerability detection, triage, and remediation workflows.\nPartner with teams to build automated policy checks, compliance evidence, and exception tracking where appropriate.\nContinuously evaluate tools and platform investments that improve security outcomes at scale.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.\n8+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, application security, cloud security, or security architecture.\n3+ years in a security-focused technical leadership or architecture role.\nDemonstrated experience securing cloud-native applications, distributed systems, APIs, and CI/CD delivery models.\nHands-on experience with secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and engineering remediation workflows.\nAbility to influence architects, engineers, and leaders through practical guidance, clear tradeoff analysis, and collaborative problem solving.","datePosted":"2026-08-06T15:43:01.202Z","dateModified":"2026-08-06T15:43:01.202Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"C4 Technical Services","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Minnesota","addressRegion":"GA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"3beffd2abbd502b357cc69cb"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3beffd2abbd502b357cc69cb"}}