Expert Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Description

Discover. A brighter future.

With us, you’ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it — we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine.

Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.

Job Description

At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.

The Expert Cybersecurity Engineer creates the engineering strategy to protect Discover’s Corporate Brand. Designs the Cybersecurity road map to contain potential breaches and deliver highly complex secure systems, cyber applications, technical projects and regulatory and risk requirements. This role researches and introduces robust cyber solutions and builds resilient next-generation systems to solve business challenges and enhance the control environment. Driving the Cybersecurity framework, road map, program optimization, process engineering, risk remediation, and mitigation of operational risk in a high velocity culture are always top of mind for this role. Analyzing cyber technologies, metrics models, and performance indicators are key activities this role performs. Expert Cybersecurity Engineers play an important role in overseeing innovative strategic solutions and technologies to support executive decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the principal advisor to upper management in Cybersecurity matters
• Establish the direction for major engineering initiatives. Provides requirements to Cybersecurity architects and engineers in the design and development of security solutions consistent with business goals and risk tolerance
• Works closely with architects, engineers, and key stakeholders to ensure security requirements are effectively met through all phases of system lifecycles

• Determines whether systems perform as expected, provides input to the determination of operational effectiveness, and takes action to remediate issues and resolve gaps
• Directs security solutions and technical assurance in alignment with business risk and regulatory requirements
• Works closely with management to define, promote, and present the strategic direction of the department
• Provides strong leadership and direction to team members. Provides subject matter expertise across all Cybersecurity technologies, and across Infra, Data, and Operations departments
• Identifies, evaluates and remediates potential vulnerabilities, and develop cyber solutions, internal processes and standards for threat intelligence workflow

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:

• Bachelors – Computer Science or related
• 8+ Years – Information Security, Application Security, Security Engineering or related

• Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of expert on the Dreyfus engineering scale

External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants – with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover.