Senior Manager, Security Architecture
Anaplan · Manchester, United Kingdom ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Management
- Company size
- 501-1000
Leads the security architecture practice at a SaaS company, defining standards for identity, authorization, cryptography, and AI guardrails while mentoring a senior team to ensure secure-by-design engineering.
At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.
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Role Summary:
Anaplan is building a formal security architecture practice, and this role leads it. You will turn security architecture into a deliberate, reusable asset for the company: reference architectures, identity and authorisation patterns, cryptography standards, and AI guardrail designs that become the natural, low-friction path for engineering rather than a checkpoint to work around. This is a people-leadership role with deep technical scope, reporting to the Director of Product Security. As Anaplan's AI capabilities and enterprise footprint grow, consistent and well-reasoned architecture decisions matter more with every product that builds on them. You will own that surface, set the standards engineering builds against, and lead a senior team to make secure-by-design the default.
Anaplan is not a simple SaaS application. The platform performs highly dimensional, enterprise-scale modelling with responsive recalculation and strong correctness expectations. The technical surface area includes the legacy Hyperblock engine, the newer Polaris engine, and a growing set of AI-powered products, including CoModeler for AI-assisted model building and CoPlanner for conversational, analyst-style planning support. AI is expanding both the capability and the attack surface of the platform, which raises the value of getting identity, authorisation, supply-chain integrity, and guardrails right by design. Security architecture has high leverage here because it sits close to engineering and platform decisions, and the team is small enough that a strong hire shapes the standards rather than inheriting them.
Your Impact:
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Lead the security architecture practice: define how architecture review works at Anaplan, what gets reviewed, when, by whom, and against which bar.
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Own the reusable patterns: drive security reference architectures, identity and authorisation patterns, cryptography architecture, and AI guardrail design as living standards that engineering adopts by default.
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Set security engineering principles: establish and maintain the standards that shape how the platform is built, and keep them legible and usable for engineers.
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Review the highest-risk designs: lead architecture and design reviews for major platform and AI changes, early enough to influence them.
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Partner with platform engineering: engage directly on the Hyperblock and Polaris surface and the AI product line so architecture reflects how the platform genuinely works.
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Support compliance by design: ensure security architecture meets the demands of the enterprise and regulated environments Anaplan's customers operate in.
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Codify decisions into policy-as-code: turn architecture decisions into enforceable, version-controlled guardrails wherever that reduces toil rather than adding it.
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Build and develop the team: hire, coach, calibrate, and mentor the architecture team, and hold a consistent technical bar.
Your Qualifications:
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A track record building or leading security architecture in a SaaS or cloud-first environment, with scope across multiple teams.
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Deep architecture credibility: identity and authorisation, cryptography, secure-by-design, and threat modelling at scale.
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Enough hands-on depth to challenge weak designs on their merits; this is a security leader who stays technically credible, not purely managerial.
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People-leadership judgement: hiring, coaching, calibrating a senior team, and making hard calls on performance.
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Experience aligning architecture to enterprise and regulated environments.
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A clear, non-hyped view of how AI changes the architecture surface: identity, authorisation, supply-chain integrity, and the need for guardrails.
Nice to have
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Working familiarity with AI security standards and references such as the NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, MITRE ATLAS, or the OWASP LLM Top 10.
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Hands-on experience with policy-as-code and turning standards into enforced controls.
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Contributions to security standards, frameworks, or industry practice.
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