Lead Security Engineer

NVR, Inc.; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

NVR, Inc. in Reston, VA is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for enterprise security engineering. The role involves setting technical direction, owning complex designs, and guiding secure implementations across multiple teams.

You will mentor engineers, ensure practical security controls, and partner with various stakeholders to embed security throughout the system development lifecycle. This is an on-site role in Reston.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead security architecture and engineering decisions across multiple platforms.
• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and improving enterprise information security solutions.
• Strong knowledge of security baselines, controls, and risk management practices.
• Ability to translate risk into practical technical requirements and guide cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise security platforms.
• Establish standards, baselines, reference designs, and runbooks across security domains.
• Provide technical ownership for endpoints, cloud, identity, and network security capabilities.
• Mentor engineers and promote shared engineering practices across the team.
• Conduct risk assessments, threat modeling, control validation, and security testing for initiatives.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, applications, cloud, audit, and business teams to embed security in SDLC.

Skills

Security architecture

Incident response

Cross-functional leadership

Documentation

Risk translation

Technical mentoring

Security governance

Project influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

Microsoft 365 security

SIEM

Cloud security tooling

Job description

NVR, Inc. is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to work on site in Reston, VA.

NVR’s technology teams thrive on providing multiple business lines with the tools and technologies that support NVR’s mission to create a better living experience for our customers. Join NVR Technology and be part of a collaborative team that welcomes innovation, encourages continuous learning, and helps you achieve your career goals.

Summary

We are seeking a Lead Security Engineer to provide hands-on technical leadership for enterprise security engineering. In this lead individual-contributor role, you will set technical direction, own complex security designs and standards, guide implementation across security platforms and services, and serve as a trusted security partner for major technology initiatives. You will lead through influence, mentor engineers, and help ensure that security controls are practical, consistently implemented, and operating effectively.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise security platforms and services.
• Establish technical standards, security baselines, reference designs, configuration requirements, and engineering runbooks across assigned security domains.
• Serve as the security engineering lead for complex projects, translating business and technical requirements into secure, supportable solutions.
• Provide technical ownership for capabilities such as endpoint protection, vulnerability management, privileged access management, cloud and Microsoft 365 security, log management, encryption, secure email, and network security.
• Lead technical risk assessments, design reviews, threat modeling, control validation, and security testing for new and changing solutions.
• Ensure security tools are maintained, integrated, monitored, and configured in accordance with documented standards, current releases, and approved security baselines.
• Provide senior-level support for complex incidents, including technical analysis, containment strategy, remediation leadership, root-cause review, and post-incident improvements.
• Lead vulnerability-management engineering and remediation coordination, including prioritization, exception analysis, trend review, and verification of corrective actions.
• Partner with infrastructure, applications, cloud, architecture, audit, and business teams to embed security throughout the system development lifecycle.
• Evaluate emerging threats, technologies, and products; develop recommendations and present options, risks, and tradeoffs to technology leadership.
• Lead medium-to-large security initiatives and coordinate work across technical teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Mentor security engineers, provide technical review and coaching, and promote shared engineering practices across the team.
• Develop meaningful measures for security control health, operational effectiveness, risk reduction, and continuous improvement.

Job Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience designing, implementing, administering, and improving enterprise information security solutions, including significant responsibility for complex technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to lead security architecture and engineering decisions across multiple enterprise platforms or security domains.
• Deep expertise in several areas such as endpoint security, vulnerability management, privileged access management, cloud security, Microsoft 365 security, SIEM/logging, encryption, email security, network security, or threat management.
• Experience leading incident response, technical investigations, root-cause analysis, and enterprise remediation efforts.
• Strong knowledge of security architecture principles, control frameworks, policies, standards, baselines, audit requirements, and risk-management practices.
• Ability to translate risk into practical technical requirements and balance security, business, operational, and user needs.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional technical projects and influencing outcomes without relying on direct authority.
• Advanced documentation and communication skills, including standards, designs, decision records, procedures, runbooks, executive recommendations, and technical presentations.
• Ability to operate independently, make sound decisions in ambiguous situations, and serve as an escalation point for complex security engineering matters.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Security, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced security certification such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC, CCSP, or a relevant Microsoft, cloud, network, or product certification.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, enterprise cloud security, Zero Trust principles, security automation, and integration of security controls into delivery pipelines.
• Experience in a regulated, audit-driven, or large enterprise IT environment.
• Experience mentoring engineers and establishing repeatable engineering practices across a technical team.

Life at NVR

As the parent company of Ryan Homes, NVHomes and Heartland Homes, NVR is committed to your success and we will give you the tools, training, and industry knowledge you need to excel and thrive. Our management team is tenured and talented, nearly 80% of them promoted from within, so you will have mentors who can share their knowledge and provide career guidance and encouragement.

NVR offers traditional benefits, among the best in the industry. In addition, we offer all employees stock ownership through a profit sharing trust as part of our retirement savings package. NVR has had the highest Earnings Per Share growth rate in the homebuilding industry for the past 10 years, so as we grow financially, so do you!

View more about our exceptional culture and comprehensive benefits at https://www.nvrcareers.com/ .

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Drug Testing and Credit Check are required.

Applicants must be legally entitled to work in the United States, as NVR does not provide visa sponsorship.

This position pays $ 135,000 - $155,000 per year Individual pay is determined by factors including the candidate’s job-related skills, experience, relevant education, and location.