Senior Security Data Engineer

Regular, full-time position. Fluency in English required. 1st shift (United States of America). Truist will not sponsor work visas or provide immigration support for this role.

About the role

Designs and develops advanced technical cybersecurity data and analytics capabilities across both uniform and bespoke corporate information technology environments. Plans, builds, enhances, and evangelizes cybersecurity data technologies by building, feeding, and supporting data analytics capabilities to drive security response and major positive security impact. Drives maturity across security algebras, elevating others to think in aggregates, graphs, and vectors over tables.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements advanced cybersecurity data solutions that identify risks and guide both response and security assurance efforts.
• Performs and enhances data acquisition and analysis to uncover and remediate significant vulnerabilities.
• Integrates data from various information security technologies in diverse environments, defining and improving automatable scenarios and processes.
• Serves as a key technical point of escalation for challenging security data issues, diagnosing recurring problems and creating reusable solutions that improve how the organization consumes security data.
• Assesses emerging security threats, tools, and architectural options, providing recommendations that shape technical plans, priorities, and goals.
• Collaborates with product, engineering, and operations teams to apply modern security practices in all stages of the security development lifecycle.
• Develops and maintains security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications, contributing to approaches that support regulatory and policy compliance.
• Leads the technical execution of major incident response and forensic activities, coordinating tasks, leveraging tooling effectively, and suggesting improvements to playbooks and processes.
• Provides guidance, coaching, and technical training to other security engineers, hosting reviews and sharing best practices that elevate team capability.
• Lowers the bar to entry for data excellence across the organization through enablement, evangelization, education, and smart design.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Proven experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Deep knowledge of threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC).
• Experience with security tooling and cloud-scale data systems such as Azure Data Explorer and accompanying cloud services.
• Role involves supporting non-customer facing .NET based services.
• Familiarity with emerging cybersecurity technologies, industry trends, and strategic risk management.

Benefits

All regular teammates (working 20+ hours per week) are eligible for benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• Tax-preferred savings accounts and a 401k plan.
• No less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on hire date and full-time/part-time status) during the first year, plus 10 sick days and paid holidays.
• Depending on position and division, may also include a defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan.