Senior Manager, Security Architect

Senior Manager, Security Architect

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of everyone increases the diversity, complementarity, and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience, and potential you could bring to CHANEL. 

About the role: 

CHANEL is looking for a Security Architect to join our US Information Security Team, reporting directly to the Head of Information Security. The ideal candidate will play a leading role in the development and implementation of security architecture principles across enterprise initiatives. You will champion a Security by Design approach—ensuring security is integrated from ideation to deployment – while balancing risk and enabling our business in a service-oriented Technology department. The role requires close collaboration with application development, infrastructure, and product teams to embed security controls and align technology solutions with our evolving threat landscape. Our ideal candidate will have a minimum of five(5) years of security architecture experience, including advising product and development teams on secure development practices and architectural standards. 

What impact you can create at CHANEL: 

• Through a deep understanding of the Chanel environment and technology stack, you will serve as advisor for secure-by-design frameworks within product and infrastructure development lifecycles. 

• Provide validation of secure solution design across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments on both local and global initiatives. 

• Partner with enterprise architects, software engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure security is embedded in solution architectures from the start. 

• Develop and maintain security architecture blueprints, standards, ensuring consistent “shift left” approaches to enterprise product and architecture builds. 

• Conduct threat modeling and architecture risk assessments for new applications, integrations, and technologies. 

• Manage pre-launch technical assessments including penetration testing and configuration reviews and advising on third party integrations to minimize cyber risk exposure. 

• Align solutions with compliance frameworks (e.g., PCI-DSS, CCPA) and luxury industry best practices. 

• Stay ahead of emerging threats, tools, and technologies in luxury retail, eCommerce, and digital platforms. 

You are energized by: 

• Being a risk-taking technical security expert, acting expeditiously in supporting decision making and recommendations, moving boldly, while understanding the factors of driving results within a matrix style organization.  

• Delivering security as a service to a large, complex organization with both online and physical retail presence in a rapidly growing environment with cyber threats that are continuously evolving.  

• Developing and elevating security-by-design processes for efficiency and easy adoption while delivering high quality scalable solutions that minimize cyber risk.  

• Fostering a message that information security enables the business and its objectives by educating and garnering awareness to a range of audiences, both technical and non-technical, while also actively listening to their needs ensuring alignment with program versus organizational objectives.  

• Working in a highly collaborative environment as a courageous leader  

• Navigating complexity and monitoring risk on the regional and global level in close partnership with the wider Information Security team driving consistent transformation and change.  

What you will bring to the team: 

•  Experience: Minimum of 7 years in hands-on information security roles, with at least 3 years in advisory or security-by-design functions.  

• Advisory: Experience in design reviews to ensure that security considerations are integrated into the architecture and design of products and systems, reducing the likelihood of security flaws in the final product.  

• Threat Modeling: experience in helping identify how an application might be attacked and what risks need to be mitigated during development. 

• Vendor and Tool Management: Experience in engaging with security service providers, such as external testers. 

• Standards and Frameworks: Knowledge of industry standards and frameworks such as TOGAF, NIST CSF, ISO 27001, COBIT 

• Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS 4.0 and CCPA/CPRA is preferred.  

• Communication Skills: Exceptional presentation skills with the ability to articulate complex security concepts to peers, TECH leadership, driving informed decision-making.  

• Passion and Industry Fit: Strong enthusiasm for information security and a keen interest in contributing to the luxury retail sector, demonstrating an understanding of its unique challenges and opportunities.  

Position Logistics:  

• Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of 3 days in-person office presence in the New York and/or Piscataway, New Jersey office      

*Chanel, Inc. reserves the right to edit, change, or make exceptions on designations where circumstances where deemed appropriate. 

Compensation:  

• The anticipated base salary range for this position is $87,500-$160,000.  Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay [may/will] be offered for this position. Other components [may/will] include bonus potential, benefits, and/or perks.  

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Benefits and Perks:  

• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing (2-week August Office Closure) and a Wellbeing fund   

• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)  

• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days   

• 401K and other incentives   

• Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program  

• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking  

Additional Information:  

Chanel is a private company whose values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work. We offer a unique work environment where individuals are encouraged to better understand the brand, the business, and motivations, so that together we can unlock the possibilities of growth. This is reflected in:  

Diversity and Inclusion:  

• At CHANEL, we are intentional in promoting Diversity & Inclusion. We foster respect, empathy, and dignity for all.  We believe strongly that the diversity of our people across the full spectrum of human differences is essential to our organisation and the connections we have with each other and our clients.   

• We offer Employee Resource Groups in the US that are voluntary, open to all, employee-led groups formed around a shared identity or lived experience, whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community aligned with the values and missions of the communities they support.  

 Chanel Community:  

• CHANEL Community empowers our employees to channel their passions, talents and sense of purpose to contribute to and learn from our communities.  

• Employees are encouraged to take time off annually to volunteer through CHANEL Community. CHANEL also matches employee donations to select charitable organizations.  

Sustainability:  

• CHANEL Mission 1.5° is our climate action plan. It is focused on transforming the business in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit the average global mean temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.  

• Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives.  

Arts and Culture:  

• We are committed to extending our legacy of cultural engagement. Global support includes the CHANEL Culture Fund, which supports a select group of leading art culture institutions across the globe, and the CHANEL Next Prize for the next generation of creative talent.  US support currently includes Annual sponsorship of the MoMA film program, Tribeca Film Festival programs and Through Her Lens, Support of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and Sponsorship of the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center.  

Fondation Chanel:  

• Since 2011, Fondation CHANEL’s mission is for women and girls to be free to shape their own destiny.  Through multi-year partnerships with financial and technical support, Fondation CHANEL is committed to improving the safety and autonomy of women and adolescent girls around the world, impacting over a million women and girls in its first 10 years.      

• For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here    

 Career and Leadership Development:   

• We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs like Imagine Chanel People, Heart of Leadership and group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes offered on our Bloom platform and by skilled trainers, such as Shape Your Career, to develop career building skills.  

 *Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.