
FinTrust Connect New York NY Hybrid
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Join our Talent Community for New York. The market favors cloud security leaders across money center banks and fintechs with emphasis on platform guardrails identity governance and exam ready documentation.
As a Cloud Security Architect you will own the end to end cloud control architecture for regulated workloads, align designs to FFIEC and NIST CSF, and coach engineering teams to deliver secure and resilient platforms at scale. You will balance business speed with strong control evidence for audits and regulators.
Requirements
8 to 14 years across security architecture and platform engineering with recent Azure and or AWS depth
Experience translating regulatory language into workable patterns and standards for product and data teams in financial services
Strong identity and access background Entra and PIM and Conditional Access and AWS IAM and federation and secrets and key management
Proven build of cloud control baselines network segmentation private access egress control logging and detection automated compliance checks
Comfortable engaging senior stakeholders and boards with clear risk and design rationale
Responsibilities
Lead architecture for landing zones and guardrails identity network data logging and threat detection. Embed compliance checks into CI and CD and infrastructure pipelines
Maintain control catalog mappings and solution patterns for FFIEC and NIST CSF with evidence collection that audit teams can rely on
Stand up metrics and dashboards for coverage drift and posture. Guide remediation waves with platform and app owners
Partner with risk and internal audit on walk throughs RFIs and control testing
Run readiness reviews for major releases and new services
Outcomes we track
Control coverage 95% across top cloud services within 90 days
High severity misconfigurations reduced 50% in 2 quarters
Access review completion 100% on schedule
Zero repeat findings across two consecutive exam cycles
Compensation and terms
Consultant pay $120 to $179 per hour based on platform and regulatory depth
Contract Hybrid New York NY or Remote US W2 or 1099
How to apply
Apply on our site FinTrust Careers
Or email talent@FinTrustConnect.com with subject [Apply] Cloud Security Architect New York
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Keywords
Cloud Security Architect, FFIEC, NIST CSF 2.0, Azure, AWS, Landing Zone, Identity Governance, Entra, PIM, Key Management, Logging, SIEM, Microsoft Sentinel, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Terraform, Policy as Code, Zero Trust, Audit Evidence, New York

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