セキュリティアーキテクト（グループ長／部長補佐候補）

The role

This person will lead the PCI Architecture Group and serve as an assistant to the department manager. They will manage security architecture, risk assessment, and governance while collaborating with business and development departments to improve company-wide security levels.

What you will do

• Lead the PCI Architecture Group including PCI DSS compliance support, security consultation, risk assessment, and information asset management.
• Manage the team through goal setting, roadmap design, KPI design, progress management, and task prioritization.
• Promote organizational strength through member training and evaluation.
• Formulate and continuously improve security strategies, policies, and guidelines.
• Evaluate, review, and propose improvements for security architecture for new services, systems, and new technologies.
• Collaborate with business, development, and technical departments to consider and implement security requirements and controls.
• Formulate risk assessment and security response policies for new technologies like Generative AI and AI agents.
• Report to management regarding cyber security risks, countermeasure status, and investment priorities.
• Lead consensus building and problem solving with stakeholders such as audit, legal, risk management, and technical departments.
• Support response during major incidents and lead the formulation and execution of recurrence prevention measures.

Required qualifications

• Practical experience in cyber security, IT risk, or security architecture.
• Team management experience in a security organization or IT/risk management organization (team operation, member training, recruitment, business design/improvement).
• Experience reporting and proposing cyber security risks, countermeasure status, priorities, or investment decisions to management.
• Experience leading from problem discovery to policy formulation and execution while building consensus with diverse stakeholders such as technical and business departments.
• Business level or higher Japanese language proficiency.

Nice to have

• Practical experience regarding PCI DSS (compliance support, evaluation, requirement response, internal audit response, etc.).
• Experience in system audit, IT audit, internal audit, internal control, or IT risk management.
• Experience in security or IT risk management in the finance, payment, or credit card industry.
• Experience in system development, infrastructure operation, cloud (AWS, GCP, etc.) design, construction, operation, or security review.
• Experience in external/management reporting during major incidents, crisis response, or promoting recurrence prevention measures.
• Qualifications such as CISA, CIA, CISSP, or Registered Information Security Specialist.

Benefits

• Social insurance (health insurance, welfare pension, employment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance).
• Corporate-type defined contribution pension plan.
• Asset formation savings system (general, housing, pension).
• Annual paid leave (14 days in the first year, pro-rated depending on the month of joining).
• Personal leave (5 days per year, or 3 or 5 days in the first year depending on the month of joining).
• Overtime allowance, late-night work allowance, and commuting transportation expenses.

About the company

PayPay Card Co., Ltd. was established in 2021 to provide fintech services that are closer and more convenient to users by integrating with the PayPay payment platform, which surpassed 75 million users as of August 2026.