Principal Security Architect (Product Security)

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.</p> <p>What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;">Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating<em> </em>our wins – big and small.</p> <p>Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, <a href="https://www.anaplan.com/careers/">values</a>-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!</p></div><p><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="736">Role Summary</span></strong></p> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="773">This role owns the architecture itself: the reference designs engineering builds against, the review of the hardest problems, and the work of making secure-by-design real across the Hyperblock and Polaris platform and the AI product surface. As the most senior technical individual contributor in the security architecture practice, you set the technical bar the practice codifies into standards. The value of this role is not in producing documents that describe good architecture; it is in producing architecture that engineers adopt because it is genuinely the better path. You will work hands-on, on the problems that carry the most risk.</span></p> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="1428">Anaplan is not a simple SaaS application. The platform performs highly dimensional, enterprise-scale modelling with responsive recalculation and strong correctness expectations. The technical surface area includes the legacy Hyperblock engine, the newer Polaris engine, and a growing set of AI-powered products, including CoModeler for AI-assisted model building and CoPlanner for conversational, analyst-style planning support. AI-assisted capabilities such as CoModeler and CoPlanner are reshaping how the platform behaves, which means identity, authorisation, supply-chain integrity, and verification all need designing rather than reusing. The hardest security design problems land here, with real room to set the patterns. Security architecture has high leverage because it sits close to engineering and platform decisions.</span></p> <hr> <p><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="2263">Your Impact:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="2294">Define reference architectures: own the security reference designs for the platform and the AI products, and keep them current as both evolve.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="2438">Own identity and authorisation architecture: including authorisation for AI agents and analyst-style workflows, where assumptions about who is acting no longer hold.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="2605">Set cryptography architecture: encryption and key-management standards, with a clear position on what is mandatory versus contextual.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="2740">Design AI guardrails: input and output controls, tool and authorisation boundaries, and abuse and prompt-injection defences, informed by references such as MITRE ATLAS and the OWASP LLM Top 10.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="2935">Lead threat modelling on the riskiest systems: and turn the findings into concrete design changes.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="3035">Drive secure-by-design into the supply chain and attack surface: including build integrity and provenance, hardened images, and reduction of exposed surface.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="3194">Set the technical bar the practice codifies: establish the standard that becomes adopted, enforceable guidance across the team.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="3323">Stay hands-on: write and review real designs and prototypes, and pressure-test your own architecture rather than only specifying it.</span></p> </li> </ul> <hr> <p><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="3462">Your Qualifications:</span></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="3509">Deep, demonstrable architecture mastery: secure software architecture, cryptography, identity and authorisation, and threat modelling at scale.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="3654">Real AI and ML security depth, not vocabulary: a working grasp of how LLM-driven features change identity, authorisation, supply chain, and verification.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="3809">Hands-on technical authority: you still design and review real systems and can defend your choices to strong engineers.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="3930">The ability to influence senior engineers without formal authority, especially when risk and delivery pressure are in tension.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="4058">Enterprise-scale, SaaS or cloud-first experience where architecture decisions carried real consequences.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-markdown-start-index="4163">Nice to have</span></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="4178">Published research, talks, or contributions to standards such as NIST, ISO, or OWASP.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="4265">Experience designing for enterprise and regulated environments.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span data-markdown-start-index="4330">An offensive grounding, formal or informal, that you use to pressure-test your own designs.</span></p> </li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) </strong></p> <p>We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it con