Principal Security Architect

Job ID: 40109

Location: Bangalore, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 17 Oct 2025

**Job Summary**
- As a Principal Security Architect, you will have the opportunity to lead initiatives that protect our digital assets and maintain the trust of our customers. Your contributions will directly impact the resilience and integrity of our banking services in an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape. If you are passionate about cybersecurity and thrive in a collaborative environment, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of secure banking operations.
- You are required to engage with the senior stakeholders within the Bank - Cybersecurity and otherwise. It is crucial that you have strong Security Architectural, Leadership and Technical Skills (in one or more Cybersecurity domains) to be successful in this role. You must have proven experience in all these three areas.

**Key Responsibilities**
- A Security Architect will be responsible for one or more of the following at the same time.**Create Security Architectures**

**Establish Security Architecture Methodologies and Frameworks**
- Establish security architecture frameworks (policies, standards, processes, procedures, guidelines, etc.) for various platforms.

**Security Architecture Governance**
- Participate in Enterprise Security Architecture governance forums.

**Collaborate with Delivery Teams**
- Work closely with development and IT teams to integrate security measures into the software development lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring that security is prioritized from design through deployment.

**Conduct Risk Assessments**
- Perform regular risk assessments and vulnerability assessments to identify potential security weaknesses and develop effective mitigation strategies.

**Achieve systemic risk reduction**
- Lead security domain practices to create security strategy for the domain, including baseline security architecture, target security architecture, roadmaps, risks, and mitigation plans.

**Evaluate and Recommend Security Technologies**
- Stay current with emerging security technologies and trends, evaluate their applicability to our environment, and recommend solutions that enhance our security posture.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key stakeholders**
- CISO and ICS functions
- Lines of Business and SC Ventures
- Tech Organization and Platform Owners
- Engineering Teams
- Compliance and Risk Management
- OTCR and Audit
- Suppliers and Partners

**Skills and Experience**
- Information Security Architecture
- Leadership Skills
- Information Security Technologies
- Software Engineering
- Software Development
- Emerging Technologies

**Qualifications**
- Education Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Related Fields
- Certifications CISSP OR Equivalent Certificates
- Languages English

**About Standard Chartered**
- We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.- Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.- Together we:
- **Do the right thing** and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- **Never settle,** continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- **Are better together,** we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

**What we offer**

**In line with our Fair Pay Charter,** we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.- **Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,** with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- **Time-off** including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 da