Principal Security Architect

About Us:

CDK Global is a leading provider of cloud-based software to dealerships and Original Equipment Manufacturers (“OEMs”) across automotive and related industries. The Company’s cloud-based, software as a service (“SaaS”) platform enables dealerships to manage their end-to-end business operations including the acquisition, sale, financing, insuring, repair, and maintenance of vehicles. By automating and streamlining critical workflows, the integrated platform of modern solutions enables dealers to sell and service more vehicles by creating simple and convenient experiences for customers and improves their financial and operational performance.

Position Summary:

The Principal Security Architect is a technical leader responsible for securing automotive retail experience for millions of customers on an industry leading SaaS platform.

Position Responsibilities: 

1. Leadership & Strategy:

· Exemplify security principles and culture

· Lead the development of CDK’s security strategy

· Design and implement technology and processes on CDK’s most critical security projects

· Effectively partner across security, technology, and business teams

· Provide technical leadership to security and technology teams, focusing on technical and engineering excellence

· Develop effective security metrics and use them to drive improvements

2. Security Standards:

· Guide the development and continuous improvement of security standards and guidelines in alignment with risk and compliance requirements

· Drive accurate measurement and reporting of CDK’s compliance with security standards

· Drive adoption of security standards across product, technology, and infrastructure teams

3. Security Architecture and Engineering:

· Guide development of secure architecture practices across security and technology teams – cloud, product, identity, network, infrastructure

· Develop repeatable engineering and automation patterns to enable “secure by default” systems and processes

· Solve the hardest and most complex security and technology problems at CDK global

· Lead the security engineering community to develop a shared pool of good security practices

4. Security Operations:

· Work with CDK Security Operations team to identify and enable detection for advanced/complex scenarios

· Drive good development practices in orchestration and automation of macro response workflows

· Be a force multiplier in rare security incident scenarios

Required Qualifications: 

· Minimum of 12 years’ industry experience, with at least 8 years in security.

· Strong background in security architecture, design, and operations – preferably in a complex SaaS or eCommerce environment.

· Experience designing and deploying infrastructure as code in a multi-tenant public cloud environment.

· Extensive experience with product, application, infrastructure, network, identity, and cloud security solutions

· Experience designing and implementing complex multi-disciplinary security solutions

Salary: $180K - $225K + Bonus