Senior Lead - Security Engineering And Architecture

In short

In the dynamic landscape of On, our technology thrives like a spirited runner: always moving, always improving. As Senior Lead – Security Engineering & Architecture, your mission is to build and lead a high-impact engineering organization responsible for embedding security into cloud platforms and software delivery at scale. You will own both the technical strategy and the delivery outcomes for DevSecOps and Cloud Security, ensuring security is designed in, automated, and operationally effective across the company. This is a leadership role for someone who can connect architecture, engineering execution and people leadership—turning security vision into scalable, reliable and measurable outcomes.

Your Mission

Team Leadership & People Management: Act as the primary leadership; direct and mentor a specialized team of DevSecOps and Cloud Security engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and high-impact delivery

Cloud Security Ownership:

• Own security design and engineering for cloud environments across identity, network, workload and data protection. As well as ensuring consistent security posture across multi-account / multi-subscription environments
• Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to harden and continuously improve cloud security baselines

DevSecOps:

• Oversee the integration of security into the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring secure software development practices and automated vulnerability management are standard across all engineering teams
• Enable product and platform teams to adopt secure-by-default tooling and practices
• Continuously improve pipeline security, artifact integrity, dependency security and build-time assurance

Strategic Architecture:

• Lead the identification and mitigation of cyber threats by designing resilient system architectures that safeguard critical applications and data
• Establish scalable patterns for: secure cloud landing zones, workload and container security, CI/CD pipeline security, secrets management and identity integration
• Drive architectural decisions that prioritize automation, resilience and developer experience

Delivery & Execution Ownership:

• Own the end-to-end delivery of security engineering capabilities for cloud platforms and software delivery pipelines.
• Ensure initiatives are delivered on time, with measurable risk reduction and operational impact
• Balance strategic roadmap execution with operational and emerging security needs

Your story

• Over 10+ years of hands-on experience in Secure Architecture and Cloud Security, with a demonstrated track record of leading security initiatives and managing technical teams
• Deep understanding of modern cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure), cloud-native architectures and software delivery pipelines
• Strong hands-on and architectural experience designing and operating: CI/CD security controls, infrastructure-as-code security, container and workload security, cloud identity and access patterns
• Demonstrated ability to translate security strategy into clear engineering roadmaps and delivered outcomes, not only designs
• A leadership style built on clarity, trust and technical credibility, with a focus on scaling security through engineering rather than process alone
• Strong awareness of developer experience and operational sustainability when designing security solutions
• Desirable experience participating in security incident response and supporting on-call rotations, with the ability to guide teams through complex investigations and high-impact situations

What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

• Step One

  It starts with you...

  You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

• Step Two

  Interview with a recruiter

  What ignites your spirit? This is where we’ll start getting to know all about you and what makes you tick – and it’s your first chance to get a feel for our culture. Chatting with a member of our talent team, you’ll learn more about On and how we work. We’ll learn about what motivates you and what you could bring to the team.

• Step Three

  Interview with a hiring manager

  Ready to dig into the details? This second interview will be held with your future manager and will focus on the specifics of the job. Together you’ll delve into your unique skills and experiences and how they could be relevant at On. It's also a time to assess how you might feel working side-by-side. Bring any questions you have about the job, the team or anything else you might like to know – this is an open forum.

• Step Four

  The Case Study

  What's your style? This task will help us understand how you think, face a challenge and give insight into your novel ideas. Designed to give everyone their best shot, your case study is based on something you might typically experience on the job. This is your chance to show us what you’ve got. So express yourself. Be you.

• Step Five

  The Experience Day

  Your first taste of the Oniverse. This is a time to meet some of the people you'll be working closest with. In person or virtually, you'll get a feel for the day-to-day at On and the people who make it happen. You'll chat with a few potential teammates - the conversations will be as equally driven by the role and your experience as by our values. We believe how you do things is just as important as what you do.

• Step Six

  The Result

  Are we a good fit? We’ll get together internally to share our feedback and decide if we’re a match. We know that job searching is a big time investment, so it’s not a decision we take lightly. It’s also time for you to reflect on the experience – are we the right place for you? No matter the outcome, we’ll give you meaningful feedback.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.