Global Sr Enterprise Security Architect (Director level)

Job Summary

The Global Sr Enterprise Security Architect (Director level) is a high-impact, strategic leadership role responsible for the long-term security enterprise architecture vision across all Booking Holdings brands. This Senior role is an individual contributor role operating with extreme ownership, driving the end-to-end strategy from initial conceptualization to global adoption.

About the Role

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. For more information, visit BookingHoldings.com and follow us on X (formerly known as Twitter) @BookingHoldings.

Responsibilities

• Lead the evolution of the Booking Holdings Security Architecture blueprint, ensuring its long-term viability and anticipating emerging threats.
• Own the governance lifecycle independently, identifying gaps in current brand implementations and driving remediation.
• Act as a key advisor to Brand CISOs and the Global Chief Security Officer, persuading and aligning senior leadership on security investments that balance risk with commercial velocity.
• Provide "North Star" guidance to security engineers across brands, acting as the final escalation point for complex architectural disputes or trade-offs.
• Lead high-stakes vendor assessments, ensuring chosen solutions provide a competitive advantage through superior ROI and integration.
• Proactively identify opportunities for brands to share security services or tools, driving efficiency and a unified defense posture across the enterprise.
• Drive the current and future AI security architecture, embedding security by design principles into engineering, product, and AI development lifecycles.
• Realize a measurable uplift in identity, cloud, and API security, enabling faster product delivery with embedded security guardrails.

Requirements

• Master's Degree
• Significant years of security enterprise architecture experience
• Experience in building up a new function that was not there before (as an IC) - strategy, influencing
• Proven ability to translate the mission into a resilient technical reality
• Mastery of Cloud/Hybrid Security, Identity (IAM), Zero Trust architectures, and Secure SDLC
• Experience with AI-driven security operations is highly preferred
• Superb ability to communicate "Risk vs. Reward" to non-technical executives
• A track record of taking complex, ambiguous problems and driving them to a successful conclusion with minimal guidance
• Certifications: CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, or SABSA Chartered Architect preferred

Qualifications

• Strategic Thinking
• Ability to translate threat landscape → architecture decisions → business outcomes
• Experience building scalable, repeatable architecture patterns

Skills

• Cloud-native security architecture (multi-cloud)
• Identity & access (human + machine identity)
• API and application security
• Zero trust architectures
• Strong understanding of modern attack surface (SaaS, xIoT, AI, third-party)

Benefits

We are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits program designed to keep you and your family healthy, plan for the future, and make the most out of life. For a glimpse of our benefits offerings, please see here. In addition to competitive health and wellness benefits, we currently offer other perks to eligible employees, such as: tuition reimbursement, fitness reimbursement, discounts, and more!

Pay

The base salary range for Connecticut and the NYC-metro area is $218,700-$267,300. We are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits program designed to keep you and your family healthy, plan for the future and make the most out of life. For a glimpse of our benefits offerings, please see here. In addition to competitive health and wellness benefits, we currently offer other perks to eligible employees, such as: tuition reimbursement, fitness reimbursement, discounts, and more!

Schedule

The role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.