LastPass is looking for a Chief Security Architect
The ideal candidate will be essential to the success of our growing LastPass Trust & Security team. The Chief Security Architect will lead the existing team, drive secure architecture modernization from both product and enterprise perspectives, standardize security requirements, ensure alignment with policies, and help protect our millions of customers, employees, infrastructure, and operations. This role reports directly to the CISO.
You will define and evolve the strategic vision for security architecture, create a roadmap for Secure-by-Design initiatives across enterprise and product portfolios, establish standards and design patterns, and prioritize investments. You will also support budgeting cycles and ensure all initiatives align with business goals. Additionally, you will lead, mentor, and grow the security architecture team.
Candidates should have extensive leadership experience across multiple security domains, bringing a holistic, business-driven perspective to security architecture that considers operational support, cost management, and portfolio rationalization for effective deployment of security controls across the organization.
If you are passionate about complex problem solving and motivated by scale, then this is the role for you!
Who will you work with?
You will collaborate with various technical and business stakeholders, particularly the Software and Platform Architecture teams, who will be your closest partners, as well as Product Management, the Privacy Operations, Safety, and Trust (POST) function, and IT/Enterprise Architecture and Data teams. Together, you will ensure that our security solutions are built on solid foundations, function effectively within our business and operational context, adhere to sound security architecture principles, and meet non-functional requirements such as performance, availability, cost, maintainability, reliability, and security.
What are some of the exciting challenges you will be working on?
- Help mature our Security Architecture function across all organizational domains and assets, including multiple hosting environments, SaaS applications, managed devices, IT infrastructure, secure third-party access, and the security of our software factory and development practices.
- Establish a consistent vision and strategy for Security Architecture within the Trust and Security function, defining a strategy for Security-by-Design and Demand.
- Lead the design of reference architectures, blueprints, patterns, and solutions to protect our products, services, organization, and customers.
- Take responsibility for designing security solutions and selecting products within our security control portfolio, ensuring effective technology governance and appropriate metrics for portfolio rationalization.
- Support the mitigation of security risks through control selection and solution prioritization.
- Provide mentoring within the security architecture function, offer peer support to other architects, and ensure succession planning for direct reports.
What does it take to work at LastPass?
- Leadership experience, ideally at the Director level or higher, across multiple security domains.
- Experience operating a certified or certifiable management system.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills for clear and effective interactions.
- Strong writing and documentation skills for clear, concise, and comprehensive records.
- Ability to work independently with exceptional initiative, planning, and organizational skills to complete tasks efficiently.
- Skill in translating complex technical concepts into understandable terms for all stakeholders, clarifying the purpose and process of solutions.
- Detail-oriented and collaborative, promoting teamwork and meticulous attention to tasks.
It's great, but not required:
- Prior experience with American federal and state security standards, such as StateRAMP or FedRAMP, is desirable but not mandatory.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $180,000 in the lowest geographic market and up to $220,000 per year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on several factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
