Tech Architect Security Engineer

Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for ten consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

The Security Engineer is responsible for providing operational security solutions that would enable the success of IT and business initiatives. Security Engineer interfaces with IT Groups across the company, client managers, business customers, third-parties, vendors, and auditors. The Security Engineer co-designs (along with Security Architect) and operationalizes security solutions that can be effectively delegated to Security Analysts or other support/operations functions. The scope of Security Engineers extends across technical and administrative controls that enable the protection and availability of business and IT systems. The Security Architect is responsible for defining the organizations information security architecture and standards and creating prioritized risk based upon technical security control roadmap. The Security architect will coordinate technical design/review activities and develop secure architectural frameworks, operational guidelines and metrics to support a secure computing environment consistent with the organizations Information security policies, standard and overall strategy security risks for the company.

What You’ll Do

• Lead complex technical architecture discussions and design exercises to create solutions designed to drive innovation while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud and other platforms.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, architectures, platforms and application infrastructure required to successfully implement a complete solution providing best practice advice to customers to optimize product effectiveness.
• Build a trusted advisory relationship with strategic customers across the business and engage with Architects and senior management to identify customer priorities, technical objections and design strategies encompassing the entire ecosystem to deliver business value .
• Perform market research on best-of-breed technologies and lead the engineering team to develop successful proof-of-concepts to test and learn new capabilities.
• Lead discussions with business partners to clearly understand opportunities and identify innovative ways to leverage technology to solve complex business issues.
• Design, develop and enhance technical architecture patterns and frameworks for others to leverage across the enterprise.
• Work with customers, stakeholders, product managers, and product owners to understand and maintain a high-level understanding of the current and upcoming requirements for the system
• Understand and communicate the nonfunctional requirements for the system.
• Evaluate design alternatives, and perform cost benefit analysis.
• Develop and maintain whatever models and documentation are necessary to describe how the system does what it is intended to do, including recommended domain and user case models
• Define and split large architectural objectives into smaller incremental objectives.
• Present the technological vision of the solution during planning, provide domain models and exemplary use cases that describe larger system behavior, and participate actively in interactively during the planning process.
• Champion change by serving as a resource to help teams make appropriate system and component level design decisions during implementation.
• Top level technical expert in one or more highly specialized phases of applications programming.
• Research, design, write, test and implement complex software applications and systems.
• Provide practical, actionable approaches to overcoming technical and procedural challenges in implementing strategy.
• Lead Architect governance.
• Champion change; drive and set technical direction affecting multiple groups/business units.
• Provide leadership by instructing, mentoring and training team members within and outside the work group.
• Work with other architects to establish common roadmaps in support of upcoming user and business needs.
• Interact with and influence senior management on technical matters requiring coordination between organizations.
• Provides technical consulting on complex projects.
• Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.

What You'll Bring

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

Required Education, Experience, Certification/Licensure

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Typically have 15+ years of directly related experience.
• Experience working with distributed team is preferred.
• Fluent in multiple application development languages at an expert level
• Expertise with various computer platforms and application environments and automated testing
• Expertise with developing multiple tiers of multi-tiered software applications.
• Expertise in designing programs, applications and systems.
• Constantly updating technical knowledge and skills and mentoring others to increase the skill level of the department and the company.
• Must have conceptual understanding of domain technologies.
• Ability to convey technical and conceptual ideas/topics to non-technical personnel.
• Presentation skills
• Strong organizational or Project Management skills
• Ability to design systems with Infrastructure, Network and server operations team in building complex enterprise level applications.

What We Offer

By choice, we don’t simply accept individuality – we embrace it, we support it, and we thrive on it! Our People First Culture celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but also because it’s the key to our success. We are proud to foster an authentic and inclusive workplace For All. You are free and encouraged to bring your entire, unique self to work. First American is an equal opportunity employer in every sense of the term.

Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.