We are looking for a External Security Architect to join us on a part-time basis (approx. 30–40% of a full-time role, or 12–16 hours per week). The contract will be for a fixed period of 9–12 months. The role is suitable for candidates seeking flexible part-time employment or freelancers interested in a stable, long-term engagement.
Responsibilities
- Act as a consultant for engineering teams on secure software design and development practices
- Lead and perform security reviews of applications, systems, and infrastructure
- Evaluate results from external audits and drive effective risk mitigation strategies
- Plan, commission, and oversee security audits across products and processes
- Assessment of known vulnerabilities and definition of mitigation measures
- Provide architectural guidance and long-term security strategy for software and cloud environments
- Design and document security concepts, policies, and standards
- Support and lead incident response and management activities.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience in security roles within finance, SaaS, banking, or government industries
- Strong expertise in application security, cloud security, cryptography, DevSecOps, and identity management
- Demonstrated experience with regulatory compliance and security audits
- Solid understanding of secure software architecture and risk management principles
- Hands-on experience in modern software environments (Java, Kubernetes, AWS)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German and English
- Strong collaboration skills with engineering, DevOps, and compliance teams.
Benefits
- A chance to be a part of a casual but professional environment where you will have a safe place to try, fail and learn
- Have full ownership over your code
- Coaching from our tech leads to advance your soft and technical skills and set your development path
- Defined and organized the onboarding process for both, the company and the project
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
- Sport clubs – from fishing to basketball, whatever rocks your boat
- Awesome referral fees - because great people know great people
- Work-life balance – this is the company that really supports your professional, family and personal goals
- Freedom to decide how you want to work - partly or fully remote or from our offices.
