Senior Information Security Architect

About Aspora People on the move deserve a bank that moves with them. Since 2022, Aspora has been building a borderless financial operating system that makes money as mobile and transparent as its users. Backed by influential venture capitalists like Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Hummingbird Ventures, Y Combinator & Global Founders Capital. We're a team of 150+ across India, the UK, the UAE, EU and the US, working with extreme ownership, radical candour, and an obsession with customer impact. We celebrate builders who question assumptions, ship fast, and turn regulatory complexity into elegant solutions. If you’re driven to redefine what global banking can be, we’d love to build the future with you. About the Role We're seeking a hands-on Senior Information Security Architect to design and implement security controls for our regulated digital banking platform. This is a builder role requiring deep technical expertise in cloud security, data protection, and regulatory compliance. You'll architect defensible, auditable, and scalable security systems that balance protection with product velocity. Core Responsibilities Technical Architecture (60%) Design and implement zero-trust security architectures with clear boundaries, assuming breach scenarios and eliminating implicit trust Build data protection systems including field-level encryption for PCI/PII data, cryptographic key management, and envelope encryption patterns Architect hybrid cloud security for AWS-to-datacenter connectivity and vendor integrations with one-way trust models Implement identity-first access controls with service-to-service authentication, zero standing production access, and time-bound sessions Design SIEM and detection systems with logging strategies for legal evidence and correlation across identity, network, and application layers Security Harden and maintain next-gen firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet) and their integration into our workloads, setup security observability Operational Secu