Principal Security Engineer Job Listing at Valley Bank in Morristown, NJ (Job ID 26-724)

Description

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Establish and maintain security engineering capabilities and processes, including vulnerability management, secure configuration management, patch governance, security testing, penetration testing remediation, secure software development practices, and security automation.
• Assess, secure, and govern emerging technologies, including AI and machine learning solutions, establishing security requirements, risk frameworks, data protection controls, model governance practices, and responsible AI security standards across the organization.
• Lead and evolve enterprise security architecture, engineering, and cyber risk management capabilities, establishing strategy, standards, and roadmaps across vulnerability management, cloud security, application security, infrastructure security, identity security, and emerging technology domains.
• Drive risk-based security assessments and remediation efforts across infrastructure, cloud platforms, applications, endpoints, identities, and external attack surfaces, partnering with Engineering, IT, Product, and business stakeholders to reduce enterprise risk and improve security resilience.
• Design, implement, and govern security controls aligned to Zero Trust principles, including identity and access management, privileged access management, authentication and authorization models, conditional access policies, segmentation strategies, and continuous verification approaches.
• Develop and maintain security architecture standards, reference designs, and engineering patterns for cloud, infrastructure, applications, APIs, data protection, identity services, and AI-enabled solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Own API Security and Integration Governance, defining security standards, configuration baselines, and architectural guardrails while ensuring secure API authentication, authorization, encryption, traffic management, and onboarding of new services across enterprise environments.
• Enhance security visibility, telemetry, and automation by integrating security platforms, cloud inventories, asset management systems, identity platforms, AI-powered analytics, ticketing systems, and operational workflows to improve detection, prioritization, and response capabilities.
• Provide technical security leadership, governance, and strategic direction, developing executive-level metrics and risk reporting, supporting audit and regulatory readiness, serving as a subject matter expert across security architecture, engineering, identity, and vulnerability management, and mentoring team members on security best practices and innovation.