Security Architect - Bengaluru

Own end-to-end security architecture across cloud, applications, and APIs. This is a hands-on builder role focused on securing production systems, driving compliance, and partnering closely with engineering, customers, auditors, and regulators.

Company Details
AiPrise is an AI-powered global compliance platform helping fintechs and businesses with KYB, KYC, fraud prevention, risk scoring, and compliance automation across 200+ countries. Website:

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering, security architecture, or a closely related field.

• Proven experience securing production systems at scale.

• Strong hands-on understanding of application code, cloud infrastructure, and API security.

• Strong cloud security expertise across IAM, network segmentation, secrets and key management, containers, workloads, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Deep knowledge of application and API security, including access control, injection, SSRF, authentication, authorization, and secure design.

• Experience with threat modeling, security design reviews, secure SDLC, CI/CD security, dependency security, and container security.

• Strong understanding of SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR, and related security and privacy requirements.

• Experience leading certification, enterprise customer, and regulatory audits and driving findings to closure.

• Strong stakeholder and customer-facing communication skills.

• Strong risk judgment with the ability to balance security, business, and delivery needs.

• Experience with personal, identity, or biometric data is preferred.

• Experience in fintech, regtech, identity verification, or another regulated domain is preferred.

• Penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability research, or DevSecOps experience is preferred.

• CISSP, CCSP, OSCP, CIPP, CIPT, or similar certifications are valued.

• Experience mentoring or leading engineers is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve security architecture across cloud infrastructure, applications, and APIs.

• Partner directly with engineers to identify, prioritize, remediate, and validate security issues.

• Perform threat modeling and security design reviews for new services and major changes.

• Embed security into engineering through secure coding standards, code review, CI/CD controls, dependency security, and container security.

• Define and maintain security standards, reference architectures, and hardening baselines.

• Lead penetration testing, vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and closure of security findings.

• Translate regulatory and industry requirements into practical technical and organizational controls.

• Own technical audit and assessment activities, including evidence, control mapping, and remediation.

• Support enterprise customer security reviews, questionnaires, due diligence, and trust discussions.

• Partner with privacy and data-protection teams on GDPR and other applicable requirements.

• Help protect personal and biometric data through appropriate security controls.

• Contribute to incident readiness, investigation, response, and post-incident improvements.

• Mentor security engineers and, as the team grows, build and manage the security team.

• Set technical direction while remaining hands-on with security architecture and engineering.

Job Details
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Interview Process

• Introductory Discussion

• Security Deep Dive & Practical Assessment

• Security Deep Dive

• Founder & Culture Alignment

Important Note
ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping AiPrise hire a Security Architect.