Cyber Security Architect (m/f/d)

We are TecAlliance — founded by more than 30 automotive aftermarket companies as a neutral Data‑as‑a‑Service market connector, serving as the neutral data terrain that interconnects them. With over 1,000 employees worldwide and customers in 140 countries, we enable the market — we never compete with it.

Join us in this full-time role, working 40 hours per week. You’ll be part of an English-speaking team of IT Sec professionals focused on protecting TecAlliance’s platforms and data. You report to our Lead Cyber Security Joao Santos Matias.

Security that is bolted on at the end always arrives too late — so as our Cyber Security Architect (m/f/d), you design it in from the start. You will be the first to introduce security by design practices to our development teams. You decide how security is built into every design: you analyze threats and risks before a single line of code ships, turn them into clear security concepts, and shape architectural decisions that hold up in practice — for the products our clients rely on as well as for our internal tooling. With you, security becomes part of how we build, not a check at the end.

Your goal: enable our organization to live security by design and by default — so that secure products for our clients and secure internal tools are the natural result of how we work, not an afterthought. Without you, security stays a late-stage check instead of a built-in part of every design.

Make an impact with these tasks

• Be the first to introduce security by design practices to our development teams and make security a natural part of how software is planned and built.

• Perform threat and risk analyses for our products and internal tooling.

• Write security concepts that are practical, sustainable and ready to implement.

• Suggest, challenge and discuss architectural decisions in software development, and create secure and effective cyber security architectures.

• Collaborate with different teams and external partners, decide on your own workload prioritization and security priorities within projects, and escalate blockers.

Bring your skills and ideas

Must-haves

• Completed degree in IT or Information Security or a comparable qualification.

• In-depth experience in a security architecture role and as a software developer.

• Experience in a project coordination or management role.

• Knowledge of risk and threat analysis methodologies and penetration testing, and a solid understanding of software development.

• Solid AWS expertise with a focus in security architecture and threat modelling – most of our infrastructure runs on AWS.

• Fluent English.

Nice to have:

• Fluent German is highly advantageous

Discover all the benefits that come with joining us on our career website.

Please only apply with your CV (in English only) via the system. Applications outside of our applicant tracking system cannot be considered due to GDPR.

* Please note

• that TecAlliance can only consider candidates for employment who are legally authorized to work in a country listed in the job posting, where we have an established legal entity and payroll system. Unfortunately, we are currently unable to hire candidates who require relocation, visa support, or are located outside of that country. Of course you can apply, if you hold a work permit and are willing to / or already moved to the country. Thank you for your understanding.

• that it is not possible to work outside of the country you are applying for. Meaning that, if you apply e.g. for Germany, you must work from within Germany. It is not possible to work from abroad. You can work at any location within the borders of the listed country, unless the job posting specifies a certain City.

• if you apply for Spain - that TecAlliance España is committed to equal opportunities in line with our Spanish Equality Plan. For selected roles with low female or diverse representation, and only where final candidates are assessed as equally qualified against the job requirements, positive action measures may apply as permitted by law. Any related data collection is voluntary and handled in accordance with data protection regulations. In case of questions in that regard, please reach out to equality.spain@tecalliance.net with the subject "Spain Equality Plan".

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