The Principal Security Engineer is the highest-level technical engineering authority within the company, embedded directly within a major banking client. This role is responsible for the overarching design, structural integrity, and hands-on implementation of core security controls across the bank’s enterprise systems and infrastructure. As a subject matter expert in cloud architectures, cryptographic controls, and identity ecosystems, this position collaborates with enterprise architects and senior engineering teams to tackle complex security challenges, ensuring the bank's digital assets are protected in strict alignment with global financial regulatory standards.
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Responsibilities
- Architectural Design & Blueprinting: Lead the technical design of robust security patterns, reference architectures, and engineering baselines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises systems.
- Control Implementation: Oversee and execute the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade security controls, focusing heavily on Identity and Access Management (IAM), data protection, and cryptographic infrastructures.
- Technical Authority: Serve as the final escalation point and engineering authority for complex security flaws, configuration issues, and infrastructure vulnerabilities within the delivery workstreams.
- Encryption & Data Protection: Define, design, and implement enterprise encryption standards, key management lifecycles (PKI/KMS), and tokenization strategies to protect sensitive financial data at rest and in transit.
- Engineering Enablement: Provide deep technical mentorship to senior and mid-level security engineers, establishing engineering best practices and validating code or infrastructure-as-code (IaC) templates.
- Strategic Advisory: Collaborate with senior leadership, risk committees, and client architecture boards to evaluate emerging technologies and ensure engineering roadmaps match the institution's risk tolerance.
Requirements
We need you to have:
- Minimum of 10 years in information security, system engineering, or infrastructure design, with at least 4 years operating in a Principal or Lead Engineer capacity.
- Proven experience designing and engineering security controls within a highly regulated tier-1 or tier-2 banking infrastructure.
- Prior experience in a client-facing professional services or senior consultancy role, managing complex technical deliverables and executive engineering relationships.
- Extensive hands-on experience deploying secure, automated infrastructure using enterprise tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) within CI/CD pipelines.
- Advanced capability to design end-to-end, zero-trust security frameworks for highly complex distributed systems and financial platforms.
- Deep technical proficiency in building and securing native infrastructure and multi-tenant platforms within major cloud providers (AWS and Azure).
- Expert knowledge of enterprise IAM protocols, directory services, federated identities, and privileged access management (PAM) architectures (e.g., OAuth, SAML, OIDC).
- Thorough practical knowledge of symmetric/asymmetric encryption, cryptographic protocols, hashing, and hardware/cloud security modules (HSMs/KMS).
- Capacity to drive technical consensus and influence senior engineering leads and enterprise architects toward secure design choices.
It would also be great if you have:
- Advanced designations such as CISSP-ISSAP, CCSP, AWS Certified Security - Specialty, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer.
- Familiarity with securing automated data science pipelines, model deployment architectures, and MLOps platforms.
- Conceptual understanding of secure coding practices, API gateway security, and microservices mesh architectures.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive personal health insurance
- Visa Sponsorship for the successful individual
- Professional development and certification support
- Subscription reimbursement relating to your role
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects
- Monthly Employee Incentive program
- Career advancement opportunities in a rapidly growing AI company
This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI implementation while working with a talented team of professionals at the forefront of technological innovation. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in driving the company's success in delivering transformative AI solutions to our clients.
At the company, we recognize that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where individuals with different thinking styles can thrive and contribute their unique strengths to our specialized AI and data solutions.
