Senior Cybersecurity Data Engineer: Build Defensive Analytics

Habitat For Humanity Of Durham; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation in Raleigh is seeking a senior cybersecurity data engineer to design and develop advanced analytics capabilities across security environments. You will drive data-driven security responses, integrate diverse security technologies, and mentor engineers.

The role emphasizes building automatable data workflows, improving incident response, and shaping security strategy across product, engineering and operations teams.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 various 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, and provides recommendations that shape technical plans, priorities, and goals for the job area.
• 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 in the area of responsibility, contributing to approaches that support regulatory and policy compliance.
• Leads the technical execution of major incident response and forensic activities within the job area, 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 by enablement, evangelization, education, and smart design.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Security analytics

SDLC security

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure Data Explorer

Job description

Truist Financial Corporation in Raleigh is seeking a senior cybersecurity data engineer to design and develop advanced analytics capabilities across security environments. You will drive data-driven security responses, integrate diverse security technologies, and mentor engineers.

The role emphasizes building automatable data workflows, improving incident response, and shaping security strategy across product, engineering and operations teams.