Lead Security Engineer - Threat Modeling

Truist Financial Corporation; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 160,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401k plan

Paid vacation & holidays

Disability insurance

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation in Charlotte, NC is seeking a senior security engineer to design, develop, and optimize advanced cybersecurity capabilities. You will baselines systems, analyze trends, and prepare for future requirements to deliver reliable and secure technology with meaningful impact across the department and organization.

The role is onsite (5 days a week) at a Truist core location in the Southeast, and you will mentor other engineers, lead threat modeling efforts, and collaborate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Extensive experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Expertise in threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Proven experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.
• Familiarity with OWASP ASVS, MITRE ATT&CK, and NIST SSDF frameworks.
• Experience leading threat modeling engagements for complex distributed systems.
• Advanced cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC).

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements sophisticated cybersecurity solutions that safeguard assets and provide technical direction for complex implementations.
• Performs and enhances threat modeling for high-risk platforms and services, identifying remediation opportunities.
• Acts as a senior technical expert for difficult security issues, diagnosing problems and developing reusable solutions.
• Evaluates emerging threats and trends to inform roadmaps and operational plans.
• Partners with senior leadership, product, and engineering teams to implement secure by design architecture and governance controls.
• Establishes security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications in the domain.
• Provides senior technical leadership during major incident response and forensics investigations.
• Mentors and coaches engineers through code/design reviews and training to grow security skills.
• Contributes input into divisional technology strategy and risk management approaches.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security testing

Penetration testing

Security architecture

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Automation tools

Threat modeling tools

Security monitoring tools

Job description

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Regular or Temporary: Regular

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Please review the following job description:

Designs, develops, and optimizes the advanced technical and cybersecurity capabilities for threat modeling. Plans, builds, and enhances cybersecurity technologies by baselining systems, analyzing trends, and preparing for future requirements to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure technology solutions with significant impact on the department and broader organization.

This position is onsite, office-centric (5 days a week), based in a Truist core location:

North Carolina: Charlotte/Raleigh/Greensboro

Georgia: Atlanta

Virginia: Richmond

Florida: Orlando

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.

• Designs and implements sophisticated cybersecurity solutions that safeguard critical organizational and divisional assets, contributing technical direction for complex implementations in line with established strategies.
• Performs and enhances comprehensive threat modeling for high risk platforms and services, applying advanced techniques to uncover and recommend complex vulnerability remediations.
• Acts as a senior technical expert for difficult security issues, diagnosing recurring problems and developing innovative, reusable solutions that improve team and divisional practices.
• Evaluates emerging security threats, technology trends, and architectural patterns, and provides recommendations that inform technical roadmaps and operational plans within the division.
• Partners with senior leadership, product, and engineering teams to implement modern security architecture, secure by design practices, and governance controls throughout development lifecycles.
• Establishes and documents security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications in the domain, providing input into mechanisms that support regulatory and policy compliance at scale.
• Provides senior technical leadership during major incident response and forensic investigations, shaping response execution, tooling usage, and playbook improvements to strengthen resilience and recovery.
• Mentors and coaches other senior and midlevel engineers through code and design reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical training, advancing security engineering skills across teams.
• Contributes expert input into divisional technology strategy, security standards, and risk management approaches.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Deep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.
• Extensive experience in software development lifecycle security practices.
• Expertise in threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.
• Proven experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep familiarity with industry security standards and frameworks such as OWASP ASVS, the OWASP Top 10 lists, MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE CAPEC, CWE, and NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).
• Experience developing or improving threat modeling standards, templates, processes, tooling, or automation for use across an engineering organization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead threat modeling engagements for complex, distributed systems with minimal oversight, translating threat model findings into specific, actionable security requirements and effectively challenging architectural assumptions.
• Experience working with development teams to prioritize threats based on exploitability, business impact, compensating controls, and realistic attack scenarios.
• Experience using findings from security testing to validate findings identified through threat modeling.
• Demonstrated experience applying methodologies such as STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees, abuse cases, or data-flow-based threat analysis.
• Strong understanding of application security architecture, including authentication and authorization, session management, secrets management, cryptography, API security, network trust boundaries, and secure data flows.
• Advanced cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC).
• Experience with security automation, orchestration, and advanced threat detection tools.
• Familiarity with emerging cybersecurity technologies, industry trends, and strategic risk management.

The annual base salary for this position is $160,000 - $195,000.

General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation:

All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.

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