Security Architect

Molecula is an Operational AI company that closes the gap between data and decision, enabling organizations to unlock the power of real-time analytics and AI. Our core technology, FeatureBase, is a feature-oriented database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low latency, high throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.  We are a burgeoning startup with a passionate team of dedicated engineers, marketers, and business experts determined to make a positive impact.

Molecula’s Engineering team is a group of brilliant makers and doers passionate about building world class products and solutions that make AI and ML possible for all. They take really challenging technical problems and turn them into elegantly simple yet incredibly complex solutions that delight our users. Most of all, they take pride in their craft and are a collaborative bunch that truly cares about the team, clients, company, and opportunity.

Molecula is looking for a Security Architect to own and drive Molecula’s security, privacy, and compliance posture across the company. You will be responsible for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and updating privacy and information security controls for the company and our products and services. You will also be working closely with our software engineering teams to understand and establish privacy and information security controls as part of our secure software development lifecycle and to work with our cloud operations teams to implement best practice privacy and security controls as it relates to our customers’ data. Finally, your impact in the company will be far-reaching and critical, and we will look to you for guidance and leadership in security, privacy, and compliance matters. 

Responsibilities include:

• Owning the strategic leadership of the Business's privacy, information security, and compliance programs
• Establish annual and long-range security and compliance goals, define security strategies, metrics, reporting mechanisms and program services; and create maturity models and a roadmap for continual program improvements
• Lead the development and implementation of effective and reasonable policies and practices to secure protected and sensitive data and ensure information security and compliance with relevant legislation and legal interpretation, including SOC II and or ISO27001 compliance, etc
• Keep abreast of security incidents and act as primary control point during significant information security incidents. Convene a Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) as needed, or requested, in addressing and investigating security incidents that arise
• Develop, implement and administer technical security standards, as well as a suite of security services and tools to address and mitigate security risk

Job qualifications:

• Minimum qualifications
• 10+ years of progressive experience in owning and driving security, privacy, and compliance programs in technology companies
• Expert knowledge of common compliance frameworks (e.g. SOX, SOC1, SOC2, PCI, NIST); common privacy laws and regulations (e.g. GDPR, FINRA, HIPAA, FERPA); and common information security standards & practices
• Preferred qualifications
• Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience applying your security, privacy, and compliance skills and knowledge to data warehousing, data lakes, batch or real-time event processing and ETL workflows solutions (i.e. SAP), including architecture design, implementing, tuning, schema design, and query optimization of scalable and distributed systems
• Experience as a technical security practitioner, architect, or engineer
• Excellent listener and always has more questions to ask
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to distill technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Enthusiasm for working in a highly collaborative environment
• You share our values, and work in accordance with those values

To all recruitment agencies: Molecula does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Molecula employees or any other organization location. Molecula is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Molecula is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know as a response in the application.