Product Security & Business Enablement Lead

The role

You will act as a technical security partner to business, product, data, and engineering teams. You will embed security into product roadmaps and designs to enable secure business capabilities.

What you will do

• Work with product, engineering, architecture, and data leaders to shape secure solutions.
• Assess security of composite business platforms including SaaS, APIs, and AI features.
• Facilitate architecture and threat reviews with delivery teams.
• Build and maintain a library of reusable secure-by-design patterns.
• Translate security requirements into actionable designs.
• Advocate for security in vendor evaluation and SaaS selection.
• Collaborate with Security Platform Engineering to deliver self-service security capabilities.
• Partner with Identity & Access and Infrastructure for authentication and authorization.
• Support AI-enabled products and workflows regarding data boundaries and prompt risks.
• Provide security expertise for enterprise data strategy, product onboarding, and M&A activity.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience across security architecture, cloud/SaaS security, solutions architecture, engineering, or SRE/DevOps.
• At least 4 years in a dedicated security role.
• Deep experience designing or securing distributed systems comprised of SaaS, APIs, custom applications, data integrations, and third-party services.
• Proven ability to analyze unfamiliar architectures quickly and identify security gaps.
• Strong partnership skills to work with business, engineering, data, and architecture leaders.
• Evidence of adapting security requirements in light of business needs.

Nice to have

• Hands-on engineering or architecture background plus business-facing experience.
• Success changing perceptions of security from a business obstacle to an enabler.
• Experience with SaaS- and integration-heavy environments or AI-enabled workflows.
• Familiarity with data security concepts.
• Background in financial services, wealth management, regulated environments, or supporting M&A-driven technology integration.
• Security certifications (CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, cloud security).

Benefits

• Progressive opportunities
• Professional growth
• Giving back to the community
• Innovative workplace
• Culture that fosters camaraderie, teamwork and work-life balance

About the company

Mariner is building the next generation of secure, AI-enabled business platforms. The company offers an innovative workplace and a culture that fosters camaraderie, teamwork and work-life balance.