Senior Cyber Architect

About the role

The purpose of this role is to strengthen and extend the capacity of the Cyber Security Strategy & Architecture team in response to increasing global demand across cyber initiatives, particularly in security operations, threat management, and emerging areas such as AI and data. The role ensures architectural guidance is available at the pace of business and security demand, reducing delays and enabling more consistent and scalable security outcomes across a federated global environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide architectural support to security operations, with a strong focus on threat management and operational security effectiveness
• Support analysis and resolution of findings from security assurance activities, ensuring outcomes focus on root-cause remediation rather than point fixes
• Improve consistency and quality of security remediation by linking operational findings back to architectural principles and systemic fixes
• Reduce recurrence of similar security findings through stronger architectural interventions and pattern-level remediation
• Support cyber initiative delivery by ensuring architectural input is timely, pragmatic, and aligned to delivery pressures across global teams

Experience & Background

• 5+ years' experience in cybersecurity architecture or senior security engineering roles
• Strong experience in security operations or threat management environments
• Proven experience working with security testing outcomes (red team, purple team, penetration testing)
• Experience in financial services or insurance industry strongly preferred
• Experience operating in global, federated environments across multiple time zones
• Exposure to cloud, application, identity, and data security domains

Pay

The salary range for this role is $137,500.00 – $206,500.00.

Schedule

Full time. Hybrid working expectations (a mix of working from home and in the office) in Madison, WI.

Benefits

• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender-equal basis
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%
• Well-being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education
• Employee Network and Community – QBE actively supports six Employee Networks, and many ways to give back to your community

Skills

• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Customer Service
• Data Architecture Development
• Detail-Oriented
• Enterprise Architecture Framework
• Enterprise IT Architecture
• Financial Systems
• Information Technology Strategies
• Intentional collaboration
• Managing performance
• Process Improvements
• Project Delivery
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning