Application Security Architect

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

 

JOB SUMMARY

Provides technical leadership and is responsible for determining the direction for the IT architecture, standards, design and implementation approaches for the company’s application systems, infrastructure and/or network-based cloud product systems. Creates, evaluates and implements plans and design proposals for high impact IT solutions and their use involving leading edge technologies and methods considering key factors such as their long-term effectiveness (service delivery and cost), practicality, technical limitations and criticality. This is an expert-level role requiring independent action to establish methods and procedures on new and/or special assignments.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

IT Architect

Program management

• Design, build and integrate an enterprise SSDLC program within existing enterprise SDLC and CI/CD processes
• Develop and lead an Application Security domain roadmap and manage related strategy and planning activities

Standards management

• Be responsible for the management of enterprise application and software security standards and promote their use and enhancement with new or existing solutions
• Experience and understanding of OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and Gen AI
• Experience and understanding of NIST AI RMF
• Influence the integration of application security principles in the solution design, processes, and standards, based on business, regulatory, or customer requirements.
• Provide architectural and design guidance, analysis, and direction, for enterprise-wide key projects and strategic initiatives as it relates to the information security and privacy. Find common ground and gain cooperation when conflicts arise and provide process improvements.
• Provide support and guidance to development teams on complex application security designs and vulnerabilities
• Training
• Promote Secure Software Development practices to development teams
• Lead and conduct secure software development training and awareness sessions for development teams
• Tools
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise for all application security technologies (SAST,DAST,SCA,WAF,etc) with heavy participation in key decision-making processes for the acquisition of current/new technologies
• Experience and understanding of how to leverage AI technologies (Kiro, Amazon Q, Amazon Bedrock etc)
• Knowledge and experience with AI Security Platforms (Zenity, PA AIRS, etc) is a plus
• Maintain a relationship with key Third-Party vendors, such as software security vendors to provide support to the infrastructure as needed.

• Know and understand Jabil business strategy
• Know and understand Jabil IT strategy & objectives
• Define the overall solution architecture consistent with Jabil’s methodology
• Be responsible for the technical solution by providing leadership for the customer, project manager, domain architects, domain specialists and application engineers to advance and deliver solutions
• Consult and Inform Enterprise Architects and Senior IT Architects to design and deliver solutions
• Earn trust of clients and management
• Assess merits of alternative technical approaches and gain consensus for best approach
• Learn, follow, promote, and improve recognized methodologies to design and deliver solutions
• Ensure that the non-functional requirements are satisfied including, but not limited to, security, disaster recovery, availability, and performance
• Researches technology and industry trends to hone both personal and Jabil’s competitive edge
• Through modeling or prototyping, validate solution prior to full implementation
• Develop expertise in one of the following disciplines: Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Information Architecture, Application Architecture, Technology Infrastructure Architecture
• Mentor IT professionals

Management Practices