Principal Security Engineer - AI Data Protection

Citizens; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement plans

Parental leave

Flexible work arrangements

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Citizens seeks a senior cybersecurity architect to own the browser security program across an enterprise. You will lead architecture, policy design, and integrations with identity, IAM, EDR, SIEM/SOAR, and cloud platforms to ensure robust data protection and secure access.

You will guide incident response, runbooks, automation, and platform health metrics while mentoring engineers and coordinating with multiple business units. This role demands strategic thinking in a regulated enterprise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity, infrastructure, endpoint, or platform engineering.
• 5+ years designing and supporting enterprise security technologies.
• 2+ years with enterprise browsers, browser isolation, secure web access, or browser-based DLP.
• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and engineering initiatives in large, complex environments; regulated-industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise browser security architecture, roadmap, standards, and lifecycle.
• Design and implement browser-based data loss prevention controls, including download, upload, clipboard, print, screen capture, watermarking, and session restrictions.
• Integrate browser platforms with identity, endpoint management, DLP, SIEM/SOAR, secure web gateway, CASB, SASE, and zero trust technologies.
• Provide Tier 3/Tier 4 support, lead major incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and develop operational runbooks.
• Automate deployment, policy management, monitoring, reporting, and platform health checks.
• Partner with Cybersecurity, IAM, Endpoint, Network, Cloud, Risk, Compliance, and vendor teams; mentor engineers and influence enterprise design decisions.

Skills

Cybersecurity expertise

Architecture leadership

Incident leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Certifications: CISSP/CCSP/CISM

Tools

Island

Palo Alto Prisma Browser

Chrome Enterprise Premium

Microsoft Edge for Business

Microsoft Purview DLP

Netskope DLP

Symantec DLP

Forcepoint DLP

Digital Guardian

Microsoft Intune

Tanium

Okta

Entra ID

Active Directory

CyberArk

Git

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Job description

Description

Position Summary

Serve as the senior technical authority for the architecture, engineering, security, and operational support of enterprise browser and browser-based data protection capabilities. Lead platform strategy, complex troubleshooting, policy design, integrations, automation, and continuous improvement across a large, regulated enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise browser security architecture, roadmap, standards, and lifecycle.


• Design and implement browser-based data loss prevention controls, including download, upload, clipboard, print, screen capture, watermarking, and session restrictions.


• Integrate browser platforms with identity, endpoint management, DLP, SIEM/SOAR, secure web gateway, CASB, SASE, and zero trust technologies.


• Provide Tier 3/Tier 4 support, lead major incident response, perform root-cause analysis, and develop operational runbooks.


• Automate deployment, policy management, monitoring, reporting, and platform health checks.


• Partner with Cybersecurity, IAM, Endpoint, Network, Cloud, Risk, Compliance, and vendor teams; mentor engineers and influence enterprise design decisions.

Required Experience

• 8+ years in cybersecurity, infrastructure, endpoint, or platform engineering.


• 5+ years designing and supporting enterprise security technologies.


• 2+ years with enterprise browsers, browser isolation, secure web access, or browser-based DLP.


• Demonstrated experience leading architecture and engineering initiatives in large, complex environments; regulated-industry experience preferred.

Required Toolset

• Enterprise browsers/security: Island, Palo Alto Prisma Browser, Chrome Enterprise Premium, Microsoft Edge for Business, Menlo Security, or equivalent.


• Data protection: Microsoft Purview DLP, Netskope DLP, Symantec DLP, Forcepoint DLP, Digital Guardian, or equivalent.


• Endpoint/identity: Microsoft Intune, MECM/SCCM, Tanium, Jamf, Entra ID, Active Directory, Okta, CyberArk, or Ping Identity.


• Security/monitoring: Microsoft Defender XDR, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Zscaler, Palo Alto, Netskope, or Cisco Secure Access.


• Automation/development: PowerShell, Python, REST APIs, Microsoft Graph, Git, Azure DevOps or GitHub; Terraform preferred.


• Strong knowledge of DNS, TLS/HTTPS, proxies, SWG, CASB, SASE, ZTNA, VPN, and cloud platforms.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering; master's degree preferred.


• Required: CISSP, CCSP, CISM, or a comparable advanced security certification.


• Preferred: Microsoft SC-100, SC-300, or SC-400; GIAC GCED/GCIH; AWS Security - Specialty; Azure Solutions Architect; ITIL 4; or TOGAF.

Core Competencies

• Enterprise architecture, technical leadership, strategic planning, executive communication, vendor management, risk assessment, incident leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Pay Transparency

The salary range for this position is $150,000 to $190,000 per year, plus an opportunity to earn additional incentive earnings. Actual pay is based on various factors including, but not limited to, the budget, work location, and relevant skills and experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plans, parental leave, flexible work arrangements, education reimbursement, wellness programs, and generous paid time off exceeding local requirements.

Citizens Benefits Overview

For an overview of our benefits, visit our Careers site - https://jobs.citizensbank.com/benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.

Why Work for Us

At Citizens, you'll find a customer-centric culture built around helping our customers and giving back to our local communities. When you join our team, you are part of a supportive and collaborative workforce, with access to training and tools to accelerate your potential and maximize your career growth

Background Check

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