Lead Security Engineer

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

As a lead engineer in the Payment HSM Infrastructure management team, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the end-to-end product life cycle. As a core leader, you are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground, with a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations. You will partner closely with Engineering, SRE/Operations, Cybersecurity, Risk/Controls, Compliance, and Audit to deliver resilient platform capabilities while also effectively contributing to key management operations and key ceremonies. You will thrive in a high-control environment, balancing innovation, reliability, and risk reduction, and will serve as a key point of accountability for service performance, governance, and stakeholder alignment.

Job responsibilities

• Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
• Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability

• Oversee payment key management operations across the key lifecycle (e.g., key generation, activation, rotation, archival, and destruction) with strong procedural discipline and accountability

• Ensure consistent, well-governed execution of key ceremonies, including adherence to dual control, separation of duties, approvals, and evidence capture expectations

• Identify and deliver automation and standardization opportunities for key management workflows to reduce manual effort and operational risk while preserving required controls

• Partner with Engineering and Operations teams to maintain operational readiness (runbooks, escalation paths, incident participation, root cause analysis, and remediation tracking)

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management

• Proven ability to operate effectively in high-control environments with strict governance, documentation discipline, and audit readiness expectations

• Strong cross-functional leadership and influence skills across Engineering, SRE/Operations, Cybersecurity, Risk/Controls, Compliance, and Audit

• Strong prioritization and trade-off management skills under ambiguity and competing stakeholder demands

• Ability to define and manage SLAs/SLOs and operational KPIs, and to drive improvements against them

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level storytelling and the ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization