Principal Cybersecurity Architect

Business Unit:
Global Technology

Salary Range: $170,000 USD - $210,000 USD

Specific compensation will be based on candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, commercial considerations, and other job-related factors permitted by law. At Russell Investments, salary is just one part of our compensation package. Our total rewards approach includes an annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility criteria) in addition to participation in our competitive benefits programs including healthcare, retirement, vacation, and wellbeing programs.

At Russell Investments, our purpose is to improve financial security for people.
We are seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Architect to serve as the strategic and technical leader advancing our global cyber architecture and engineering maturity. Reporting directly to the CISO, this individual will act as the principal technical authority on cybersecurity architecture and engineering execution—driving secure design practices, technology modernization, automation, and adoption of emerging security capabilities.

This role partners closely with application, infrastructure, and business teams to define, evaluate, and implement cybersecurity architectures that balance innovation, agility, and risk management. The successful candidate will help evolve our hybrid security ecosystem, spanning on-premises and Azure Cloud environments, and lead engineering initiatives in emerging areas such as AI Security, Cloud-native defense models, AI-driven automation, and continuous controls monitoring.

• Serve as the CISO’s principal technical advisor on cybersecurity architecture, engineering strategy, and emerging technology risks.
• Drive the execution of architectural and engineering objectives within the cybersecurity program, ensuring alignment with the CISO’s overall strategy and governance framework.
• Lead Cybersecurity Technology Build (CTB) initiatives, identifying opportunities to modernize, automate, and integrate security capabilities across platforms.
• Translate complex security architecture requirements into actionable roadmaps that balance business priorities, risk tolerance, and regulatory expectations.
• Contribute to shaping the cybersecurity technology roadmap, evaluating innovative solutions through lab testing and strategic vendor partnerships.

• Define and maintain cybersecurity architectural blueprints, ensuring alignment across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and data domains.
• Conduct architecture design reviews across applications, infrastructure, and cloud domains to ensure adherence to corporate policies, technical standards and security best practices.
• Evaluate, pilot, and integrate emerging security technologies—including AI/ML security controls, continuous controls monitoring solutions, and Zero Trust frameworks.
• Develop and maintain enterprise security architecture patterns and reference models, consistent with NIST CSF, ISO 27001, and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.
• Oversee threat modeling, security assessments, and control design for major technology initiatives.
• Guide engineering teams in implementing secure configurations, hardening standards, and automated control validations to embed security-by-design principles across the enterprise.

• Collaborate with Cyber Operations, GRC, and IT Infrastructure teams to ensure consistent architecture enforcement and operational integration.
• Establish and evolve governance processes to ensure architectural consistency, control effectiveness, and secure technology adoption across global programs.
• Contribute to cybersecurity strategy development, budget planning, and investment roadmaps.
• Partner with global cybersecurity and IT teams across North America, EMEA, and APAC to ensure alignment and operational consistency.
• Act as a technical point of contact for community engagement with industry groups such as FS-ISAC, participating in intelligence sharing and best-practice exchanges.
• Mentor and develop engineers and architects, fostering technical excellence and a culture of continuous improvement.

• Education: B…