Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL
posted 4 months ago
The Senior Associate Cybersecurity Engineer plays a crucial role in shaping the cybersecurity engineering roadmap at Discover. This position is responsible for designing and delivering secure systems, cyber applications, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and risk requirements. The engineer will engage in developing cybersecurity engineered solutions, optimizing programs, remediating vulnerabilities, and reporting metrics to mitigate operational risks in a fast-paced environment. The role requires active management and escalation of risks and customer-impacting issues to management, ensuring that security measures align with business goals and risk tolerance. In this position, the engineer will develop engineering specifications that ensure compliance with security, resilience, and dependability requirements across software applications, systems, and network environments. Collaborating with cybersecurity architects, the engineer will assist in designing and developing security solutions that meet the organization's objectives. The role also involves validating architectural models to assess their impact on assigned Cybersecurity technology systems and ensuring adherence to audit, regulatory, and legal requirements. The Senior Associate Cybersecurity Engineer will build and maintain effective relationships with peers and internal business partners, managing relationships with security partners and vendors. Staying informed about security trends, threats, and attack techniques is essential, as is driving research innovation and continuous coverage of malicious activities through custom intelligence research tools. The engineer will correlate incident data to identify vulnerabilities and provide recommendations for prompt remediation, contributing to a culture that values compliance and risk management.