Business Security Consultant

About Flight Centre Travel Group and Role Overview

At Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), we aim to "open up the world for those who want to see" by providing incredible travel experiences globally. We are seeking an experienced security architect to join our Business Information Security Advisory (BISA) team as a Business Security Consultant. This role involves embedding security architecture expertise within business operations, shaping secure solutions, guiding AI adoption, and ensuring security is integrated from the beginning of business changes.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the main point of contact for security architecture in daily business operations.
• Offer security architecture advice across programs, projects, change initiatives, and technology portfolios.
• Assist business stakeholders with architecture assessments, security reviews, and design recommendations.
• Promote reuse of security design patterns and contribute to standardizing architectural approaches.
• Participate in technology governance meetings as the security architecture representative.
• Provide counsel on architecture risks, design choices, security impacts, and AI adoption to the BISA Lead.
• Guide security architecture for application design, API security, integration methods, and secure development practices.
• Stay updated on emerging security standards, threat intelligence, and regulations to keep guidance current.
• Identify, assess, and escalate application security risks from business initiatives.
• Apply enterprise security standards, reference patterns, and configuration baselines thoroughly.
• Conduct initial evaluations of routine security policy exemption requests and escalate complex cases as needed.
• Maintain awareness of the technology landscape to interpret standards locally where necessary.
• Prepare architecture assessments and risk summaries for governance and accelerated submissions.
• Advocate for business architecture requirements through Enterprise Security Architecture governance.
• Provide expertise on AI use cases and ensuring secure AI integrations.
• Identify and raise non-human identity needs from system integrations and automated workflows.
• Keep abreast of evolving AI security architecture patterns and best practices.
• Engage actively in security architecture forums and peer review sessions.
• Collaborate across Identity & Access Management, Security Operations, Detection & Response, Privacy, and Engineering teams to deliver secure business outcomes.
• Contribute to improving enterprise architecture standards and methodologies.

Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum seven years of experience in information security with a strong emphasis on security architecture.
• Proven ability providing architecture advisory services across business, technology, and engineering contexts.
• Expertise in AI security architecture including secure AI integration, API security specific to AI, and MLSecOps practices.
• In-depth technical knowledge spanning network, cloud, identity, and endpoint security domains.
• Experience with application security, secure software development lifecycle practices, API security, and integration protections.
• Skilled in producing clear architecture assessments, governance documentation, and risk reports.
• Experience evaluating security risks and policy exceptions in complex technological environments.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust security frameworks.
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture and security frameworks such as SABSA, TOGAF, and NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or comparable professional experience.

Employee Benefits and Culture

• Work in an inclusive environment certified as a Great Place To Work® in Australia and New Zealand.
• Equal opportunity employment encouraging applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities.
• Personalized learning and development plans to support career growth.
• Access to an extensive online learning platform offering over 24,500 courses in multiple languages.
• Exclusive employee discounts with over 350 leading Australian retailers, health and wellness offers, financial planning services, employee share plans, and more.
• Special travel discounts covering flights, hotels, tours, cruises, and travel insurance for employees and their families.
• Career advancement opportunities across the global network with strong promotion from within culture.
• Health benefits including exclusive discounts on insurance plans and access to an internal gym.
• Support for mental health and employee assistance programs extending to families.
• Engagement in regular company social events, award ceremonies, team-building, and opportunities to attend international conferences (e.g., planned Bangkok conference in 2026).
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives, including workplace giving, volunteering, fundraising, and paid parental and volunteer leave.
• Commitment to environmental sustainability supporting the future of tourism.