Sr Staff Security Architect (Healthcare)

Location: Remote in the United States or Toronto, Canada

Company

hirify.global provides telehealth support solutions that help companies deliver virtual care across all 50 U.S. states.

What you will do

• Own and continuously evolve security architecture across cloud infrastructure, applications, and corporate systems.
• Lead threat modeling and architecture reviews for product, engineering, infrastructure, patient-facing interfaces, and PHI data flows.
• Design a scalable, risk-tiered architecture review process with self-service patterns and clear review criteria.
• Define application security standards covering secure design, API security, OAuth/OIDC, SAML, data protection, HL7, and FHIR.
• Establish zero trust architecture and govern identity, network, endpoint, key, secrets, certificate, and third-party integration controls.
• Translate GRC, privacy, audit, HIPAA, and SOC 2 requirements into architectural controls while mentoring the security team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of progressive security experience, including at least 5 years in security architecture across enterprise and cloud environments.
• Deep expertise in application, cloud, identity and access management, network, and data security.
• Experience with cloud security architecture, IAM, encryption, key and secrets management, PKI, and cloud-native security services.
• Proficiency in structured threat modeling, SSDLC, OWASP principles, and modern authentication and authorization patterns.
• Working knowledge of HIPAA Security Rule technical safeguards, HITRUST CSF, NIST CSF, and SOC 2, with the ability to communicate risk to technical and executive audiences.

Nice to have

• Healthcare, digital health, or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Production experience with zero trust architecture and scalable architecture review processes.
• Familiarity with HL7, FHIR, SABSA, or TOGAF security extensions.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers or establishing architecture practices from scratch.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with a relatively flat organizational structure.
• Autonomy, competence, and belonging are core organizational values.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Flexible spending or health savings accounts, flexible PTO, and 401(k) with company match.
• Life insurance, pet insurance, and additional benefits.