Security Architect

Salário mediano: $158,600 USD · BLS 2024Aproximadamente R$793,000 ao câmbio atual, antes de IR e INSS. Seu banco aplicará o câmbio real em qualquer transação internacional.

A Security Architect designs the cybersecurity systems other teams operate. You pick the identity model, the network segmentation strategy, the logging topology, and the zero-trust reference architecture. The role sits upstream of engineering, which means decisions you make today shape what the organization can and cannot do for years. I've watched companies outgrow a bad architecture and spend millions rebuilding, and watched good architects earn their salary ten times over by saying no to the wrong shortcut early. The work is diagrams, design reviews, standards documents, and long conversations with platform teams, auditors, and product engineering. You need enough depth to argue with the experts and enough breadth to see the system whole.