Principal Architect - Cybersecurity

A Career at HARMAN Automotive
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About The Role
As a Lead Cybersecurity Architect, you will define and guide the security architecture for automotive cloud services and customer-facing web portals supporting connected vehicle ecosystems. You will translate business, product, cybersecurity, privacy, and regulatory needs into practical security requirements, architecture decisions, and assurance evidence across the solution lifecycle. As a senior individual contributor, you will partner with cloud, backend, web, mobile, vehicle, DevSecOps, privacy, and compliance teams to drive secure-by-design outcomes.
What You Will Do
Own end-to-end cybersecurity architecture for automotive cloud platforms, backend services, web portals, APIs, identity flows, data pipelines, and vehicle-to-cloud interfaces.
Lead TARA activities and translate identified threats and risks into cybersecurity goals, requirements, controls, and traceable architecture decisions.
Define reusable security patterns for identity and access management, authentication, authorization, privileged access, secrets management, PKI, encryption, certificate lifecycle management, and secure communications.
Review cloud and application architectures for trust boundaries, network segmentation, API security, logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, data protection, resilience, and secure deployment.
Guide threat modeling, cybersecurity concept development, architecture reviews, design assurance, and risk-acceptance discussions throughout the development lifecycle.
Align relevant cybersecurity work products and assurance evidence with ISO/SAE 21434, and support activities related to CSMS, SUMS, UNECE R155, UNECE R156, audits, and Vehicle Type Approval.
Partner with engineering and DevSecOps teams to embed security into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, software supply-chain controls, dependency management, and release governance.
Define and review security testing strategies covering SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, API security testing, cloud-configuration reviews, and penetration testing.
Provide technical leadership during vulnerability triage and cybersecurity incident response, ensuring that affected product and service teams engage the appropriate cybersecurity stakeholders.
Communicate technical risks, architecture trade-offs, and remediation priorities clearly to engineering leaders, product owners, auditors, and customer-facing teams.
Mentor architects and engineers on automotive cybersecurity, cloud security, secure design practices, and reusable architecture patterns.
What You Need to Be Successful
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Electronics, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, software architecture, cloud security, or a related engineering discipline, including experience leading security architecture decisions for complex systems.
Hands-on understanding of cloud security principles and services across at least one major cloud platform, such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
Demonstrable experience with web, backend, and API security, including IAM, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, TLS/SSL, PKI, encryption, authorization models, secure session management, and common web security risks.
Experience performing threat modeling and TARA, defining cybersecurity requirements, and maintaining traceability from identified risks and risk treatment decisions to architecture, implementation, and verification evidence.
Working knowledge of ISO/SAE 21434 and its work products, with the ability to support cybersecurity concept, architecture, engineering, and assurance activities.
Understanding of secure software development, DevSecOps, CI/CD security, software supply-chain risk, vulnerability management, and security testing practices.
Ability to evaluate architectures across trust boundaries, data flows, identity flows, network zones, cloud services, vehicle interfaces, and third-party integrations.
Strong analytical, documentation, stakeholder-management, and technical communication skills in English.
Ability to provide technical leadership through influence in globally distributed, cross-functional engineering environments.
Bonus Points if You Have
Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Relevant certification such as CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, or an equivalent cloud or security credential.
Experience with automotive connected services, telematics, OTA, digital key, fleet platforms, vehicle data services, or customer-facing web portals.
Practical knowledge of UNECE R155, UNECE R156, CSMS, SUMS, Vehicle Type Approval, and cybersecurity audit or assessment support.
Experience supporting ISO/IEC 27001 controls, risk management, or information-security management activities in cloud and backend environments.
Familiarity with Android Automotive, Linux, SELinux, TEE, Trusted Applications, secure boot, OpenSSL, JSSE, or embedded and vehicle cybersecurity architecture.
Experience with containers, Kubernetes, service meshes, cloud-native security controls, infrastructure as code, or policy as code.
Knowledge of OWASP ASVS, the OWASP API Security Top 10, NIST guidance, or comparable secure architecture and application-security practices.
What Makes You Eligible
You are eligible to work in India. Specific work-authorization requirements are to be confirmed by Human Resources.
The exact work location, hybrid or on-site expectations, and travel requirements are to be confirmed.
You can collaborate effectively in English with global engineering and customer-facing teams.
You are willing to work with reasonable schedule flexibility when collaboration across time zones is required.
What We Offer
Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
Competitive wellness benefits
Tuition reimbursement
“Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
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You Belong Here
HARMAN is committed to making every employee feel welcomed, valued, and empowered. No matter what role you play, we encourage you to share your ideas, voice your distinct perspective, and bring your whole self with you – all within a support-minded culture that celebrates what makes each of us unique. We also recognize that learning is a lifelong pursuit and want you to flourish. We proudly offer added opportunities for training, development, and continuing education, further empowering you to live the career you want.
About HARMAN: Where Innovation Unleashes Next-Level Technology
Ever since the 1920s, we’ve been amplifying the sense of sound. Today, that legacy endures, with integrated technology platforms that make the world smarter, safer, and more connected.
Across automotive, lifestyle, and digital transformation solutions, we create innovative technologies that turn ordinary moments into extraordinary experiences. Our renowned automotive and lifestyle solutions can be found everywhere, from the music we play in our cars and homes to venues that feature today’s most sought-after performers, while our digital transformation solutions serve humanity by addressing the world’s ever-evolving needs and demands. Marketing our award-winning portfolio under 16 iconic brands, such as JBL, Mark Levinson, and Revel, we set ourselves apart by exceeding the highest engineering and design standards for our customers, our partners and each other.
If you’re ready to innovate and do work that makes a lasting impact, join our talent community today!
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Work arrangement
Hybrid