Lead Security Engineer
Company: FINRA
Location: Dallas, TX 75243
Salary: $114,200 - $248,700 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-27
About this role
The Lead Security Engineer, working independently, will direct staff in the execution of manual activities and/or automated activities to ensure applications and projects within their portfolio meet defined quality standards.
Essential Job Functions:
- Ensure that security risks are comprehensively and effectively managed though leading the application of established and ad hoc processes and techniques to identify, validate, and prioritize.
- Lead the identification of security requirement deficiencies, eliciting of security requirements, and the architecture and design of security controls.
- Develop and implement strategies to promote consistent use of security controls across the enterprise.
- Lead the operation and monitoring of security controls.
- Establish, implement, and promote security control operation and monitoring strategies.
- Ensure that controls are operating effectively; resolve operating discrepancies.
- Review, triage, and prioritize control output.
- Take appropriate action to resolve security discrepancies.
- Lead the identification, evaluation, and recommendation of new security technologies, techniques, and tools.
- Lead team in defining, reviewing, and promoting information security policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures.
- Lead and champion efforts to enforce and monitor compliance with internal and external regulations, policies, and standards.
- Establish and promote strategies to ensure that compliance is effectively monitored and enforced.
- Direct internal process improvement initiatives. Provide feedback on processes by offering suggestions.
- Mentor junior staff.
- Participate in external process improvement committees as a Quality Assurance representative.
- Provide backup coverage for next level management, as appropriate.
- Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.
- Ensure all work products meets/exceeds FINRA standards.
- Demonstration of FINRA’s values.
- Collaboration, b...