Staff Security Architect

• Lead product security strategy and architecture across the full product lifecycle
• Provide technical leadership for secure product design, development, and deployment
• Drive threat modeling, risk assessments, and security reviews
• Define and implement security standards, policies, and best practices
• Partner with engineering, customers, suppliers, and regulatory stakeholders on security initiatives
• Champion security tools, automation, and scalable engineering solutions
• Provide strategic security guidance for product and business decisions
• Represent the company as a trusted security expert in external engagements
• Build security awareness and capability through training and mentoring

• Bachelor’s degree plus 14 years of relevant engineering experience
• Relevant product security or information security experience, including working knowledge of cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), software and application security (AppSec), secure software development practices, and hardware-based security controls
• Demonstrates expertise in product security architecture, threat modeling and risk assessment, security requirements and acceptance criteria, secure design review, vulnerability management, security verification planning, and pragmatic risk mitigation
• Demonstrates ability to lead major technical efforts, influence cross-functional engineering decisions, author standards and guidance, and communicate security risk and recommendations to both technical and business stakeholders
• Demonstrates strong and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively and professionally with others under challenging circumstances
• Must possess detailed knowledge and experience with high-level language structure in C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, and/or Java relevant to Garmin business needs
• Capable of mentoring junior engineer associates in security engineering practices
• Must possess pragmatic business analysis skills and apply them to threat prioritization, architecture trade-offs, and security investment decisions

Flexible working hours & 30 days’ vacation Fair pay and special benefits such as VL, bAV, job ticket or cash card and much more. Free use of our products in your free time, Family & Friends discount for Garmin products and participation in the Garmin share program Health campaigns, company sports groups and a wide range of further training and seminar offers …And on top of that, you get to experience the Garmin feeling.

Garmin is a leading active tech company. The company develops innovative products for people who live an active life - from smartwatches and bike computers to airplane cockpits and marine radars. Founded in 1989 in Olathe, Kansas, by Gary Burrell and Min Kao, Garmin is today known for a broad, highly differentiated product portfolio in five different segments: outdoor, fitness, aviation, automotive and marine. Over 19,000 employees in 35 countries across the globe help Garmin customers discover their passions and live more active, conscious and healthy lives in line with the Garmin claim “Beat Yesterday”.

In the DACH region, Garmin has offices in Garching near Munich (Germany), Graz (Austria) and Neuhausen (Switzerland). Approximately 250 employees work at these locations. The company also operates a research and development facility in Würzburg (Germany). A key principle behind Garmin’s success and its extraordinary product quality is the company’s vertical integration: with only a few exceptions, Garmin develops and produces its products and their entire technological ecosystem in-house. From innovative sensors to the Garmin Connect app, from concept, design and production to sales and customer support.

We are successful together and you can become a part of it - true to our motto “Together in Würzburg with our colleagues worldwide”., Garmin Deutschland GmbH