Job Description

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. seeks a Lead Security Engineer in Rockville MD.

Hours: Monday Friday 8:00 am to 5:00 pm

Summary of Duties:

• Direct staff in the execution of manual activities and/or automated activities to ensure applications and projects within their portfolio meet defined quality standards.
• Ensure that security risks are comprehensively and effectively managed through 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.
• 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.
• Mentor junior staff.
• Participate in external process improvement committees as a Quality Assurance representative.
• Provide backup coverage for next level management.
• Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all security controls.
• Will supervise 1 employee.

Education requirements: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field or foreign equivalent.

Experience requirements: 7 years experience in financial services industry.

Or alternatively:

Education requirements: Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or related field or foreign equivalent.

Experience requirements: 5 years experience in financial services industry.

Special Skills or Other Requirements:

Experience must include:

• Securing networks and systems architecture.
• Design and implementation of application security controls cloud security controls and access management controls.
• Secure software assurance.
• I ntrusion detection.
• Defense and incident response.
• Security configuration management.
• Access controls design and implementation.
• Security policy and standards development.
• FTP/SFTP SSH TCP/IP and DHCP.

* Hybrid work: Must work at worksite location 2 days per week except during designated holiday flexible weeks and up to 4 additional flexible weeks per year.

Salary: $192500 - $232500 per year

Benefits: PTO; Paid leave (military jury duty bereavement voting care of a family member & childbirth); Paid holidays; OT; Bonus; Health dental & vision; Basic life AD&D suppl. life spouse/DP & dependent life spouse/DP & dependent AD&D STD LTD LTC BTA disability & legal; 401(k) w/ match & addl FINRA-funded retirement contrib.; Tuition reimb. commuter benefits & other wellness benefits (adoption asst. backup family care surrogacy benefits employee asst. & wellness programs).

Work Conditions

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To be considered for this position please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required.

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Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Non-exempt employees are also eligible for overtime pay in accordance with federal state or local law. As part of its dedication to employee wellness FINRA provides comprehensive health dental and vision insurance. Additional insurance includes basic life accidental death and dismemberment supplemental life spouse/domestic partner and dependent life and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment short- and long-term disability long-term care business travel accident disability and legal. FINRA offers immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match and eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution tuition reimbursement commuter benefits and other benefits that support employee wellness such as adoption assistance backup family care surrogacy benefits employee assistance and wellness programs.

Time Off and Paid Leave*

FINRA encourages its employees to focus on their health and wellness in many ways including through a generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off 5 personal days and 9 sick days unless otherwise required by law (all pro-rated in the first year). Additionally we are proud to support our communities by providing two volunteer service days (based on full-time schedule). Other paid leave includes military leave jury duty leave bereavement leave voting and election official leave for federal state or local primary and general elections care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment); and childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment). Full-time employees receive nine paid holidays.

*Based on full-time schedule

Important Information

FINRAs Code of Conduct imposes restrictions on employees investments and requires financial disclosures that are uniquely related to our role as a securities regulator. FINRA employees are required to disclose to FINRA all brokerage accounts that they maintain and those in which they control trading or have a financial interest (including any trust account of which they are a trustee or beneficiary and all accounts of a spouse domestic partner or minor child who lives with the employee) and to authorize their broker-dealers to provide FINRA with duplicate statements for all of those accounts. All of those accounts are subject to the Codes investment and securities account restrictions and new employees must comply with those investment restrictionsincluding disposing of any security issued by a company on FINRAs Prohibited Company List or obtaining a written waiver from their Executive Vice Presidentby the date they begin employment with FINRA. Employees may only maintain securities accounts that must be disclosed to FINRA at one or more securities firms that provide an electronic feed (e-feed) of data to FINRA and must move securities accounts from other securities firms to a firm that provides an e-feed within three months of beginning employment.

You can read more about these restrictions here.

As standard practice employees must also execute FINRAs Employee Confidentiality and Invention Assignment Agreement without qualification or modification and comply with the companys policy on nepotism.

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FINRA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to any legally protected category including race color age national origin ethnicity religion disability genetic information military or veteran status sex or any other status or classification protected by state or local law.

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FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-741.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified individuals on the basis of disability and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities.

FINRA abides by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). This regulation prohibits discrimination against qualified protected veterans and requires affirmative action by covered prime contractors and subcontractors to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans.

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Full time, Temporary work, For contractors, For subcontractor, Local area, Immediate start, Monday to Friday, Flexible hours, 2 days per week

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