SVP- Cloud Security Architect

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It’s more than a career at NAB. It’s about more meaningful work, more global opportunities and more innovation beyond boundaries .

Your job is just one part of your life. When you bring your ideas, energy, and hunger for growth, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for your contribution in return. You’ll have our support to excel for our customers, deliver positive change for our communities and grow your career.

NAB has established NAB Innovation Centre India as a centre for operations and technology excellence to support NAB deliver faster, better, and more personalized experience to customers and colleagues.

At NAB India, we’re ramping-up and growing at a very fast pace. Our passionate leaders recruit and develop high performing people, empowering them to deliver exceptional outcomes to make a positive difference in the lives of our customers and our communities.

Role: We are seeking an experienced Senior Security Architect with deep expertise in Cloud Security Architecture, Security Solution Design, and Security Control Assessments. The successful candidate will provide security architecture leadership across strategic technology initiatives, ensuring solutions are designed, implemented, and governed in accordance with enterprise security requirements, risk appetite, and regulatory obligations. The role requires a highly experienced practitioner capable of balancing security, risk, business objectives, delivery timelines, and technology modernisation initiatives. The individual will act as a trusted advisor and provide thought leadership across cloud transformation, platform security, SaaS adoption, AI services, and emerging technologies.

Key Accountabilities:

• Lead security architecture engagements across cloud, application, infrastructure, AI and platform transformation initiatives.

• Produce and review Security Control Assessments (SCAs), threat assessments, security solution designs and architecture artefacts.

• Evaluate proposed solutions against enterprise security policies, standards, control frameworks and regulatory obligations.

• Define security architecture patterns, guardrails and reference architectures for cloud environments.

• Perform security reviews throughout project lifecycles from concept through to production deployment.

• Analyse business, technical and non-standard solution flows to identify threats, vulnerabilities and security gaps.

• Support risk acceptance and exception processes through the provision of security recommendations and compensating controls.

• Provide architecture governance and challenge where security risks exceed organisational risk appetite.

• Partner with Engineering and DevOps teams to embed security-by-design principles into cloud platforms and delivery pipelines.

• Contribute to architectural review forums and governance committees.

• Develop reusable patterns, templates, standards and cloud security reference architectures.

• Mentor and uplift junior security architects and engineers.

Experience Required:

• 15+ years of experience in Cyber Security, Technology Architecture or Security Engineering.

• Minimum 2+ years of Security Architecture experience.

• Proven experience in Cloud Security Architecture within large enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated experience leading security assessments for cloud migration and transformation programmes.

• Experience engaging senior stakeholders and influencing architectural decisions.

• Experience performing risk assessments, architecture reviews and security governance activities.

• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience within banking, financial services or highly regulated industries highly desirable.

Good to Have Certifications

• SABSA Foundation / Practitioner / Chartered SABSA

• CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)

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Our goal is to foster a culture that fills us with pride, rooted in trust and respect. NAB is committed to creating a positive and supportive environment where everyone is encouraged to embrace their true, authentic selves. A diverse and inclusive workplace where our differences are celebrated, and our contributions are valued. It’s a huge part of what makes NAB such a special place to be.

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We’re committed to delivering a positive experience for our colleagues and a workplace you can be proud of. We support our colleagues to balance their careers and personal life through flexible working arrangements such as hybrid working and job sharing and competitive financial and lifestyle benefits. We invest in our colleagues through world class development programs (Distinctive Leadership and Career Qualified in Banking), and empower you to learn, grow and pursue exciting career opportunities

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