Sr Application Security Architect

Barcelona - Spain

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 24 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Datavant is the data collaboration platform trusted for healthcare. Guided by our mission to make the worlds health data secure accessible and actionable we provide critical data solutions for organizations across the healthcare ecosystem - including providers health plans researchers and life sciences companies. From fulfilling a single patients request for their medical records to powering the AI revolution in healthcare Datavanters are building the future of how data is connected and used to improve health.

By joining Datavant today youre stepping onto a driven and highly collaborative team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare.

What Were Looking For

As a Sr Application Security Architect at Datavant you will play a key role in shaping the security posture of our products and services. You will lead secure architecture and design reviews across Datavants portfolio of applications ensuring that security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. Partnering closely with engineering teams product leadership and compliance stakeholders you will provide expert guidance on risk mitigation make prioritized and actionable security recommendations and help translate complex regulatory and compliance requirements into practical technical controls.

What You Will Do

Work directly with security senior leadership to ensure maturity depth and coverage of security controls. Youll be expected to interface with our Development Engineering leadership as well as Security Engineering leadership daily.
Help facilitate quarterly planning discussions by providing strategic prioritization of all security-related requests including (but not limited to) architectural feedback vulnerability remediation compliance control implementation etc.
Be fearless in security control descriptions and writing process related elements down. The processes you build are not a castle of tone deaf documentation but a method of enabling development teams to move faster with more clarity.
Review application projects our development teams build. This will mean putting eyes on code through secure code reviews as well as working with the teams to understand the broad architecture of systems being built. Youll be very comfortable providing control feedback in a review environment to development teams. This role is not merely a 1 youll be adept at using your knowledge to the application of practical risk management.
Own and conduct security/threat model reviews and provide expertise on security architecture-related topics.
Own new projects for advancing security in our environment. Be the deep technical expert and collaborate with others on the teams to ensure project success. Your impact here cannot be understated you are a core contributor and have deep influence to empower Datavant greatness.

What You Need to Succeed

You are humble.
You have hands-on experience developing in multiple programming demonstrate strong command of programming and can quickly adapt to new technologies as needed.
Have a deep understanding of Application and Cloud security. Youll use this knowledge to provide architectural reviews and contributions to our development teams.
Have a strong understanding of security controls both those that exist in audit standards as well as practical controls that can help reduce risk and increase safety in application development environments and AWS and/or Azure.
You understand how the broad parts of a security team function and operate in unison.
You can articulate start to finish what role security should play in ideation and build with development teams.
You are a consummate collaborator its inherent in your work behavior.
Ability to understand the tradeoffs between ideal security and what is necessary to appropriately secure a legacy system
You are heavily focused on delivery and being impactful; Understand how to operate and succeed in a very fast-paced environment where the security team should be a partner and enabler for the engineering team rather than a blocker.
6 years of working in architectural and threat modeling review areas.
6 years of working with compliance standards.
Broad scoped projects dont scare you they energize you. However you like to get things done fast (and help others) with limited dependencies.

What Helps You Stand Out

You are often viewed as the expert in the room on building security controls. Development teams know they can depend on you to provide appropriate guidance and build predictable review programs.
You have experience with security in healthcare or other highly regulated space. Examples: HIPAA HITRUST SOC 2 PCI FedRamp experience from an operational response standpoint.

Perks of joining Datavant in Barcelona

25 vacation days
Daily in-office lunch stipend (and a fully stocked kitchen)
Hybrid work model: 2 days/ week in our office in Gracia
Commitment to professional development opportunities
Comprehensive private health coverage w/ out-of-network reimbursements options
Flexible remuneration with Cobee (Restaurant Transportation Nursery)
Peer & company recognition programs

To ensure the safety of patients and staff many of our clients require post-offer health screenings and proof and/or completion of various vaccinations such as the flu shot Tdap COVID-19 etc. Any requests to be exempted from these requirements will be reviewed by Datavant Human Resources and determined on a case-by-case basis. Depending on the state in which you will be working exemptions may be available on the basis of disability medical contraindications to the vaccine or any of its components pregnancy or pregnancy-related medical conditions and/or religion.

This job is not eligible for employment sponsorship.

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What Were Looking For

What You Will Do

Work directly with security senior leadership to ensure maturity depth and coverage of security controls. Youll be expected to interface with our Development Engineering leadership as well as Security Engineering leadership daily.
Help facilitate quarterly planning discussions by providing strategic prioritization of all security-related requests including (but not limited to) architectural feedback vulnerability remediation compliance control implementation etc.
Be fearless in security control descriptions and writing process related elements down. The processes you build are not a castle of tone deaf documentation but a method of enabling development teams to move faster with more clarity.
Review application projects our development teams build. This will mean putting eyes on code through secure code reviews as well as working with the teams to understand the broad architecture of systems being built. Youll be very comfortable providing control feedback in a review environment to development teams. This role is not merely a 1 youll be adept at using your knowledge to the application of practical risk management.
Own and conduct security/threat model reviews and provide expertise on security architecture-related topics.
Own new projects for advancing security in our environment. Be the deep technical expert and collaborate with others on the teams to ensure project success. Your impact here cannot be understated you are a core contributor and have deep influence to empower Datavant greatness.

What You Need to Succeed

You are humble.
You have hands-on experience developing in multiple programming demonstrate strong command of programming and can quickly adapt to new technologies as needed.
Have a deep understanding of Application and Cloud security. Youll use this knowledge to provide architectural reviews and contributions to our development teams.
Have a strong understanding of security controls both those that exist in audit standards as well as practical controls that can help reduce risk and increase safety in application development environments and AWS and/or Azure.
You understand how the broad parts of a security team function and operate in unison.
You can articulate start to finish what role security should play in ideation and build with development teams.
You are a consummate collaborator its inherent in your work behavior.
Ability to understand the tradeoffs between ideal security and what is necessary to appropriately secure a legacy system
You are heavily focused on delivery and being impactful; Understand how to operate and succeed in a very fast-paced environment where the security team should be a partner and enabler for the engineering team rather than a blocker.
6 years of working in architectural and threat modeling review areas.
6 years of working with compliance standards.
Broad scoped projects dont scare you they energize you. However you like to get things done fast (and help others) with limited dependencies.

What Helps You Stand Out

You are often viewed as the expert in the room on building security controls. Development teams know they can depend on you to provide appropriate guidance and build predictable review programs.
You have experience with security in healthcare or other highly regulated space. Examples: HIPAA HITRUST SOC 2 PCI FedRamp experience from an operational response standpoint.

Perks of joining Datavant in Barcelona