SagentSA

Principal Cybersecurity Architect

Sagent is a fintech software company that modernizes mortgage and loan servicing for banks, lenders, and consumers through its comprehensive platform. It aims to simplify homeownership by providing tools for servicing operations, consumer engagement, and default management.

Sagent

Employee count: 501-1000

United States only

Why you'll LOVE Sagent:

You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. A place where you will make a difference and have a great time doing it!

By choosing Sagent, you can be part of our mission to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for all consumers.

Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!

Overview:

We are seeking a Principal Cybersecurity Architect to lead the strategic design and implementation of secure architecture across our platform and within our corporate enterprise.
In this role, you will work closely with engineering, infrastructure, risk, and compliance teams to ensure our systems are resilient, compliant, and aligned with
best practices for cybersecurity in a highly regulated industry.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role that combines deep security expertise with the ability to influence architecture at scale.

Your day-to-day at Sagent:

Security Architecture Leadership:
  • Define and drive the overarching cybersecurity architecture strategy across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
  • Serve as a technical expert and thought leader, guiding secure design and architecture decisions that align with business needs and compliance requirements.
  • Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and architectural risk assessments for both existing systems and new initiatives.
Collaboration Across Functions: 
  • Partner with Engineering, DevOps/DevSecOps, Product, Legal, and GRC teams to ensure security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with network infrastructure and operations teams to enforce secure configurations, identity and access management (IAM), encryption, an incident response readiness.
  • Act as a security liaison to internal stakeholders and external auditors, helping translate architecture into understandable, auditable security practices.
Technical Oversight & Advisory:
  • Evaluate, select, and implement security technologies and frameworks, including zero-trust models, secure SDLC processes, cloud-native security tools, and automation.
  • Guide and review implementations to ensure alignment with NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and other relevant standards and frameworks.
  • Stay current on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices to continually evolve the organization’s cybersecurity posture.
Security Governance & Risk Management: 
  • Contribute to the development and enforcement of security policies, standards, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements.
  • Support incident response planning, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies from an architectural standpoint.
  • Conduct security assessments and provide architecture-level input during third-party vendor evaluations and product integrations.
Mentorship
  • Mentor engineers and technical staff on secure coding, system hardening, and threat prevention techniques.
  • Provide through leadership across the company on topics such as cloud security, data protection, and application security architecture.
  • Represent the security function in high-level architectural reviews, design forums, and strategic planning discussions.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or relevant discipline with 6 - 10 years of experience in a related field. Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
  • 8+ years of progressive experience in information security and architecture, with a strong background in cloud-native security, network security and secure application design.
  • Extensive experience designing security architecture for SaaS platforms and enterprise-scale cloud environments (e.g. AWS, Azure).
  • Deep knowledge of industry standards and frameworks such as NIST, CIS, ISO, SOC 2, PCI DSS, OWASP.
  • Proven experience with threat modeling, IAM, encryption strategies, secure coding practices, and risk assessments.
  • Strong understanding of financial services or regulated industries, ideally with prior experience in mortgage servicing or fintech.
  • Relevant Certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GDSA, -ISSAP, or SABSA preferred.

Perks!

As a Sagent Associate, you will be eligible to participate in our benefit programs beginning on Day #1! We offer a comprehensive package including Remote/Hybrid workplace options, Health Benefits, Unlimited Flexible Time Off, Family Planning Services, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Family Leave, 401(k) Matching, Pet Insurance, LinkedIn Learning, Virtual Social Experiences, Career Pathing, Focus Time Fridays and much, much more!

Why Sagent?

Sagent is transforming the mortgage servicing industry by bringing the modern experience customers now expect from loan originations to loan servicing. Our platform lets customers manage their home-owing lives from anywhere while giving servicers lower costs, scale compliance and higher servicing values through full market cycles.

Sagent is a joint venture that combines Fiserv Inc.'s decades of market-leading fintech expertise with Warburg Pincus' skill in growing technology companies. We hire innovators and doers to disrupt the last and most complex frontier of lending and housing. We're growing fast and need you to help shape our future.

Sagent is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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About Sagent

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Sagent's story begins with a clear mission: to revolutionize the mortgage servicing landscape. What started as Fiserv Lending Solutions, a part of the financial technology giant Fiserv, underwent a significant transformation in 2018. This was the year Sagent Lending Technologies was born, emerging as a joint venture between Fiserv, Inc. and Warburg Pincus, a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing. This strategic partnership was designed to combine Fiserv's decades of market-leading fintech expertise with Warburg Pincus's skill in nurturing and expanding technology companies. The goal was ambitious yet straightforward: to modernize the lending and homeownership experience for both loan servicers and consumers. Sagent set out to tackle the complexities of mortgage servicing, an area of lending and housing often seen as the last and most intricate frontier.

From its inception, Sagent focused on empowering banks and lenders to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for millions. The company recognized that the modern consumer expected a seamless digital experience, akin to what they received during loan origination, to extend throughout the entire lifecycle of their loan. Sagent's vision was to create platforms that would allow consumers to manage their home-owning lives from anywhere, while simultaneously providing servicers with tools to lower costs, ensure scale compliance, and enhance servicing values across all market conditions. A pivotal moment in Sagent's journey occurred in March 2022, when it entered into a landmark deal with Mr. Cooper. As part of this agreement, Mr. Cooper became a Sagent customer, and Sagent acquired Mr. Cooper's highly experienced mortgage servicing fintech team, significantly boosting its talent pool, particularly in India. This acquisition also involved Mr. Cooper selling certain intellectual property rights for its cloud-based technology platform to Sagent and receiving a minority equity stake in the fintech company. This move further solidified Sagent's commitment to building a cloud-native, end-to-end loan servicing software platform. The company continued to evolve, with Geno Paluso taking the helm as CEO in February 2024, succeeding Dan Sogorka. Under new leadership, Sagent has remained dedicated to its core mission, launching innovative solutions like the Dara platform, aimed at transforming the servicing ecosystem. Sagent's journey reflects a relentless pursuit of innovation and a commitment to simplifying the complexities of mortgage servicing for the benefit of both financial institutions and the homeowners they serve.

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