Roles & responsibilities
1. Security Architecture & Design
Own, govern, and continuously evolve security architecture standards, patterns,
reference architectures, and implementation guidance.
Ensure security requirements are integrated throughout the Secure/System
Development lifecycle (S/SDLC).
Review and approve solution architectures and act as the final design authority
for enterprise security standards.
Define security requirements for cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, SaaS, and
on-premises solutions.
Design security architectures that support confidentiality, integrity,
availability, and regulatory compliance requirements.
Set the technology direction by evaluating emerging technologies and
recommending security controls and architectures to mitigate risks.

2. Cloud Security & DevSecOps
Act as the principal Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud security across
Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Provide guidance on secure cloud architecture, workload protection, identity
security, data protection, and network security.
Partner with engineering teams to integrate security controls into CI/CD




pipelines and DevSecOps processes.
Promote Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) security practices and automated security
validation.

3. Risk & Compliance
Lead security architecture reviews and identify design-level risks across the
portfolio.
Develop remediation recommendations and risk treatment strategies.
Support industry standard compliance e.g. SOC 1 / SOC 2, ISO, COBIT, NIST, CIS,
GDPR.
Define and implement compensating controls where required.
Partner with risk management and audit leadership to address security findings
and drive remediation to closure.

4. Application Security
Review application designs for secure coding and architectural vulnerabilities.
Partner with development teams to implement secure development lifecycle
practices.
Evaluate authentication, authorization, encryption, API security, and secrets
management strategies.
Support threat modeling exercises and security design

📌 Associate Director- GTS Security Architect (Hyderabad)
🏢 KPMG India
📍 Hyderabad