Senior Security Engineer: Threat Modeling Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401k plan

Paid vacation days

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation in Greensboro, NC, seeks a seasoned Senior Security Engineer to design, develop, and optimize advanced cybersecurity capabilities focused on threat modeling and secure architectures. This onsite role requires 10+ years in security engineering and deep SDLC security expertise.

You will mentor engineers, lead threat modeling engagements, evaluate threats, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to implement secure by design practices and governance controls

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Cybersecurity principles

Threat modeling

Security testing

Penetration testing

Software development lifecycleSecurity

Information security technologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience

Tools

STRIDE

PASTA

attack trees

abuse cases

data-flow threat analysis

Job description

Truist Financial Corporation in Greensboro, NC, seeks a seasoned Senior Security Engineer to design, develop, and optimize advanced cybersecurity capabilities focused on threat modeling and secure architectures. This onsite role requires 10+ years in security engineering and deep SDLC security expertise.

You will mentor engineers, lead threat modeling engagements, evaluate threats, and collaborate with product and engineering teams to implement secure by design practices and governance controls