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About the Role
The Senior Manager, Cyber Architecture leads security architecture and design assurance for CFS technology initiatives, ensuring solutions are secure by design, aligned to risk appetite, and support customer trust, regulatory obligations, and operational resilience.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support security architecture across enterprise technology initiatives, ensuring solutions align to CFS policies, standards, control library and risk appetite.
- Develop and maintain reusable security patterns, reference architectures and design guidance for cloud, identity, data, AI, SaaS, network, endpoint, logging, cryptography and third-party integrations.
- Provide architecture input and assurance for strategic programs.
- Embed secure-by-design practices into project lifecycles through early engagement, threat modelling, control mapping, design review and pragmatic risk-based recommendations.
- Support governance and assurance by producing clear architecture artefacts, decision records, exception rationale and evidence suitable for risk, audit, regulatory and board-level scrutiny.
- Partner with cyber operations to improve telemetry, logging, monitoring, incident response readiness and detection engineering outcomes.
- Influence technology and business stakeholders to improve security outcomes while enabling delivery, innovation and customer-focused transformation.
- Provide guidance to delivery partners, suppliers and contractors to ensure security architecture work is consistent, fit for purpose and effectively transitioned into BAU.
- Contribute to the ongoing uplift of cyber maturity, control effectiveness, security awareness and architecture capability across CFS.
Requirements
- Strong experience in security architecture, cloud security, identity and access management, data protection and enterprise technology delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to design and assure secure solutions across cloud, SaaS, network, endpoint, application, data, AI and third-party environments.
- Practical knowledge of cyber security frameworks and regulatory expectations relevant to financial services, including NIST CSF, ISO 27001, Essential Eight, CPS 234, CPS 230 and privacy obligations.
- Experience working with modern security capabilities such as SIEM, MDR, EDR, CSPM, DLP, vulnerability management, external attack surface management, identity governance, MFA, privileged access and supplier assurance.
- Ability to translate complex cyber risks into clear architecture guidance, practical controls and business-aligned recommendations.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, consulting and influencing skills, with the ability to work across delivery teams, risk, technology, suppliers and senior stakeholders.
- Experience producing high-quality architecture artefacts, risk assessments, decision records, control mappings and assurance evidence.
- A delivery-focused mindset with a proven ability to balance security, risk, customer outcomes and delivery pace.
- Experience in financial services, superannuation, wealth management or another regulated environment.
Skills
- Security Architecture
- Cloud Security
- Identity and Access Management
- Data Protection
- Enterprise Technology Delivery
- NIST CSF
- ISO 27001
- Essential Eight
- CPS 234
- CPS 230
- SIEM
- MDR
- EDR
- CSPM
- DLP
- Vulnerability Management
- External Attack Surface Management
- Identity Governance
- MFA
- Privileged Access
- Supplier Assurance
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
Benefits
- Access to CFS Employer Super, which offers an expansive investment menu and flexible insurance solutions
- Support with financial services, including discounts on home loans and daily bank accounts through our partnership with a leading financial institution
- Access to 24/7 confidential support covering safety, medical and mental health services
- Additional leave day to celebrate your birthday
- Life Leave - 3 days per annum to focus on your wellbeing or celebrate a special event
- Exclusive discounts on retail, travel and entertainment
About the Company
- At CFS we know that the foundation of our success lies in our exceptional people. We believe in celebrating individuality, have a passion for high performance and creating an environment where you can unleash your full potential. Our people enable us to make a difference and deliver exceptional experiences to help our customers achieve financial freedom.
- At CFS we are committed to creating a thriving environment where individuals can flourish. We believe that success is built upon strong teams, and we are dedicated to celebrating uniqueness, championing individuality and supporting a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe that when you can truly be yourself, you can unlock your full potential.
Equal Opportunity
- CFS requires all candidates to have full work rights in Australia.
- Background checks (including Police, Employment, Bankruptcy checks, ASIC banned and disqualified persons) will be completed prior to the final preferred candidate’s employment being confirmed.
- The outcomes of the background checks do not preclude the preferred candidate, however, they will be assessed against the inherent requirements of the role.