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Security Solution Architect
Springfield, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts; New York, New York
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Overview
A career with us means you’ll work alongside exceptional people and be empowered to reach your professional and personal goals. Our employees are at the foundation of what enables MassMutual to deliver on our purpose to help people secure their futures and protect the ones they love.
We embrace the idea that we all are stronger and better through our support for one another. We strive to create a culture where employees feel valued and are celebrated for who they are.
“Since our founding in 1851, mutuality has put our policyowners at the center of everything we do. At our core, we’re a company of people helping people in their time of need, and that spirit extends to the culture we’ve built at our company. Our employees support and rely on each other each day, collaborating to deliver the best solutions for our customers and help millions more secure their future and protect the ones they love.”
Job Description
Job Description
Security Solution Architect, Security Platform Engineering
Full Time, Springfield MA
The Opportunity
The Security Platform Engineering (SPE) organization seeks an experienced and detail-oriented Security Solution Architect who can assist with designing and developing security controls to support the Enterprise Cyber Security organization. This role serves as help design, implement, and enhance security capabilities across a modern enterprise technology environment. This mid‑level role is ideal for someone with a strong security foundation who can operate as a generalist across cloud, application, data, and platform security—while also bringing practical exposure to securing AI/ML workloads in an enterprise context. In this role, you'll collaborate with engineering teams, product partners, and enterprise architecture groups to ensure security controls are effectively embedded into new and existing solutions. You will assess designs, identify risks, recommend mitigations, and help guide secure implementation patterns that scale across the organization.
The Team
This role is a part of the Security Solution Architect Team, which is a strategic arm of our Security Platform Engineering organization, and is crucial for maintaining strong security, compliance to security controls, and assisting with operatonal efficiency. This group is responsible for building and maintaining the core security controls for MassMutual, as well as designing and deploying strategic solutions that will enable controls to be embedded into strategic business processes.
The Impact
As a Security Solution Architect, you will be responsible for supporting enterprise security project delivery work, partnering with enterprise architects to design and deploy secure solutions, assisting SPE delivery and operational support teams as needed for troubleshooting. You will partner with vendors to solve strategic challenges that align with enterprise roadmaps and will have an opportunity to utilize your experience and expertise to improve existing processes, patterns, and infrastructure.
*** This position can be located in our Springfield, MA, Boston, MA, or NYC office.
The Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, deploying, and maintaining security solutions across multiple security domains
- 5+ years of experience with IT foundations such as networking, identity, endpoint, OS, cloud, data, and others
- 5+ years of experience working with complex enterprise solutions
- 5+ years of experience working with project delivery teams
- 5+ years of experience with documentation and demonstrated ability in operational hand off
- 5+ years of experience working on Security and Operation Incident objectives
- 5+ years of experience in audit remediation and mitigations
- 5+ years of experience supporting complex environments
- 5+ years of experience with Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Reviews, Intelligence (Analytics), Roles and Rules management, and Segregation of Duties
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
Responsibilities
- Design and architect security solutions that align with business requirements, compliance standards, and industry best practices
- Partner with engineering teams, product stakeholders, and enterprise architects to embed security requirements into solution designs and project delivery workflows
- Evaluate existing security systems and recommend improvements to enhance protection and efficiency
- Support security project delivery by contributing domain expertise, providing architectural guidance, and assisting with implementation activities
- Work with vendors and external partners to evaluate and deliver strategic security capabilities that align with enterprise roadmaps
- Develop integration patterns, automation approaches, and reusable architectural assets to improve engineering efficiency
- Provide consultation across lines of business to ensure secure solution design, secure deployment practices, and adherence to security best practices
- Assist in securing AI/ML workloads, model endpoints, training data, and governance guardrails within enterprise AI platforms
- Communicate complex technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders through clear documentation, presentations, and discussions
- Stay current on evolving cyber threats, technologies, and regulatory requirements
- Ability to collaborate across lines of business to consult and guide projects as needed to follow best practices around identity and access management
- Understanding of web security concepts and security in-depth
- Ability to collaborate across lines of business to consult and guide projects as needed
- Ability to grasp large scale, enterprise class deployments
- Software system integration
- Troubleshooting and triage of complex production issues, with technical support to operations and supporting teams
- Understanding of the Atlassian productivity suite (JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc)
- Excellent Organizational Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Will be communicating technical information to non-technical end users
The Ideal Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Information Management
- 7-10 years of experience in a complex web infrastructure environment
- Experience maintaining various web proxies using Security Access Manager
- Ability to look at the big picture and recommend designs based on industry best practice
- Hands‑on experience with core security domains (identity, data protection, cloud security, application security)
- Emerging experience in AI security—such as securing model endpoints, protecting training data, or working with governance guardrails for enterprise AI platforms
- You should be comfortable partnering with technical peers, interpreting security requirements, and translating them into actionable solution designs
- Ability to think critically under pressure and deliver on time
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
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Salary Range: $121,800-$159,800
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By the numbers*
- 85% of employee respondents say they are proud to work at MassMutual
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% of employee respondents say the work they do at MassMutual is meaningful - 85% of employee respondents say they feel encouraged to come up with new and better ways of doing things
*Source: 2025 MassMutual employee engagement survey
Award-Winning Culture
MassMutual is guided by a single purpose: We help people secure their future and protect the ones they love. As a company operated for the benefit of our members and participating policyowners, we are defined by mutuality and our vision to provide financial well-being for all Americans. It’s more than our company structure — it’s our way of life. We are a company of people protecting people. Our company exists because people are willing to share risk and resources and rely on each other when it counts.
We strive to build a thriving community where everyone is valued, included, and feels that they belong.
At MassMutual, we Live Mutual.
How We Work
MassMutual’s flexible workplace approach combines the importance of connecting in person and the flexibility of working remotely. Our hybrid model puts collaboration first with employees coming in at least three days per week to our spectacular campus settings and also enjoying the flexibility of remote Fridays, company-wide remote weeks, and a bank of flexible remote weeks to use throughout the year.
Benefits for the whole you (and your loved ones)
There’s more to your life than your job and there’s more to your aspirations than a paycheck. We take a holistic view of compensation and benefits that provides the flexibility to create a healthy balance in your life for work, family, and community. We offer the benefits you’d expect, like medical, dental, 401(k), and generous vacation time, but we also offer ones you might not expect, like three paid days for volunteering, a $1,250 annual Well-Being Wallet, and up to 320 hours of caregiver leave.
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