Company Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, spaneting, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

Role Summary

The Principal Cybersecurity Architect is the subject matter expert in global security solution designs. This role contributes to the long-term strategic vision for IT security, risk and compliance, and is responsible for thought-leadership in enterprise security architecture strategy & planning. This role partners across business divisions to provide complex solutions and align the development of core business capabilities, information assets and technology with security controls and policy. The Principal Security Architect is a seen as an industry leader, with the ability to influence all levels, from engineers to executives.

Key Duties

• Serves as the subject matter expert in global security, providing solution designs and technical consulting services in support of maintaining compliance with all applicable requirements including internal policy, the PCI DSS and relevant data privacy laws.

• Designs the long-term strategy for IT security, risk and compliance through development of security architecture strategy and planning.

• Provides architectural oversight of IT project activities to ensure adherence to standards and security best practices.

• Designs and implements a strategic plan to mitigate security risk within the organization and drives the implementation of the security architecture standards and roadmap for Alaska Airlines.

• Constructs information security standards and patterns that support risk assessments and the development of secure architectures.

• Makes significant impactful decisions for integrating security requirements into technology lifecycle management and contributes to multiple large, complex application projects with cross functional teams and business users.

• Leads Security Engineers through the research and advocacy of new technologies, architectures, and security products that will support security requirements for the enterprise and its customers, business partners and vendors.

• Develops requirements, along with business, application development, and infrastructure partners, to drive the engineering process that produce secure solutions.

• Influences across the company regarding architectural approaches that meet business requirements while managing security risk and maintaining compliance.

• Provides creative thinking and innovation with pragmatic outcomes that build constructive business relationships and gain the trust of others. Drives continuous process and technology improvements.

• Mentors, coaches and trains members of the Information Security team, the broader Information Technology Services team, and other technologists throughout the organization.

• Stays abreast of industry standards, spanet forces and emerging technologies to understand their impact and how they can be best leveraged within the organization and technology landscape.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 7 years of experience in information security, security architecture, or other relevant experience.

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in computer science or related field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.

• Minimum Age of 18 required.

• Must be Authorized to work in the U.

Preferred

• Experience working with stakeholders across multiple functions.

• Experienced with PCI compliance programs.

• Experience working with public cloud security.

• Industry certification in security (e.g. CISA, CISSP).

• Cloud or e-commerce industry experience.

• Prior Airline industry experience.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be respanable.

Salary Range

$136,100 - $204,100 / year

Salary Details

Successful COPS employees maintain their current step in pay, per the Collective Bargaining Agreement.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air

• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits

• Generous 401k match program

• Quarterly and annual bonus plans

• Generous holiday and paid time off

For more information about Alaska/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Requisition Type Management
Location Seattle - Hub
Regulatory Information Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement It is the policy of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.
We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.
To implement this policy, we will:
(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;
(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and
(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.
Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.
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Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2025-13645
Category Software & Technology