Lead Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

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. 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.