Senior Manager, Security Architect

Senior Manager, Security Architect

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of everyone increases the diversity, complementarity, and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience, and potential you could bring to CHANEL. 

About the role: 

CHANEL is looking for a Security Architect to join our US Information Security Team, reporting directly to the Head of Information Security. The ideal candidate will play a leading role in the development and implementation of security architecture principles across enterprise initiatives. You will champion a Security by Design approach—ensuring security is integrated from ideation to deployment – while balancing risk and enabling our business in a service-oriented Technology department. The role requires close collaboration with application development, infrastructure, and product teams to embed security controls and align technology solutions with our evolving threat landscape. Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of five(5) years of security architecture experience, including advising product and development teams on secure development practices and architectural standards. 

What impact you can create at CHANEL: 

• Through a deep understanding of the Chanel environment and technology stack, you will serve as advisor for secure-by-design frameworks within product and infrastructure development lifecycles. 

• Provide validation of secure solution design across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments on both local and global initiatives. 

• Partner with enterprise architects, software engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure security is embedded in solution architectures from the start. 

• Develop and maintain security architecture blueprints, standards, ensuring consistent “shift left” approaches to enterprise product and architecture builds. 

• Conduct threat modeling and architecture risk assessments for new applications, integrations, and technologies. 

• Manage pre-launch technical assessments including penetration testing and configuration reviews and advising on third party integrations to minimize cyber risk exposure. 

• Align solutions with compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI-DSS, CCPA) and luxury industry best practices. 

• Stay ahead of emerging threats, tools, and technologies in luxury retail, eCommerce, and digital platforms. 

You are energized by: 

• Being a risk-taking technical security expert, acting expeditiously in supporting decision making and recommendations, moving boldly, while understanding the factors of driving results within a matrix style organization.  

• Delivering security as a service to a large, complex organization with both online and physical retail presence in a rapidly growing environment with cyber threats that are continuously evolving.  

• Developing and elevating security-by-design processes for efficiency and easy adoption while delivering high quality scalable solutions that mi