VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer

The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer will serve as a key role in safeguarding enterprise multi-cloud systems, networks, and data. The position is responsible for designing, developing, driving, implementing, leading and managing multi-cloud Information Security Engineering activities for the Cryptography program, including the underlying capabilities/technologies. In addition, this role will be responsible for acting as a trusted peer and stakeholder advisor within the organization, working closely with Information Security Engineering leadership to ensure delivery of the overall program roadmap against the Cryptography strategy and vision. 

The VP, Staff Cryptography Engineer is part of the Synchrony Information Security Cryptography Team, serving as a Cloud Security, Cryptography, Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, Privacy, Public Key Infrastructure, and Tokenization subject matter expert responsible for advancing Cryptography, Data Privacy/Protection, Key/Secrets Management multi-cloud platforms, services, systems, and best practices at Synchrony. The candidate would have an engineering position focused on delivering critical/key enterprise data protection controls, efficient supporting processes, & comprehensive automation capabilities to protect & enable Synchrony’s Information Security Engineering strategy at scale. The candidate is expected to have a strong understanding and technical work experience with Cloud Security, Cryptography, DevSecOps, Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, PKI (competency skills/work experience domains include automation, controls, governance, lifecycle management, operations, process engineering, and security standards development). 

• Adopting and promoting engineering excellence by identifying efficiencies and synergies through means of automation, collaboration, and orchestration 

• Collaborates with architecture to identify capability gaps, develop requirements, identify solutions to address, assist with proof of concepts and testing of solutions 

• Implementation and technical lead responsibilities that include ongoing DevSecOps/Engineering support for a global cryptography program that leverages a portfolio of multi-cloud data protection capabilities 

• Managing technology from the ground up and understanding gaps within the tech stack, including overlap with other technology and/or coverage, capability gaps  

• Maintaining technology from a business as usual (BAU) aspect by ensuring the proper change management, disaster recover, incident management processes are occurring and current  

• Participate as one of several technical leads on team of Information Security engineers 

• Participate in authoring, editing, providing, or reviewing documentation (procedures, standards) to ensure a well-managed and mature security infrastructure 

• Partners with peers within the organization to effectively prioritize work by using Agile processes and ensuring risks, impediments, and asks are brought to leadership in a timely fashion  

• Plays a hands-on role in the engineering and implementation of multi-cloud security measures that protect enterprise applications, computer systems, information, infrastructure, and networks 

• Plays a key role in designing and building multi-cloud solutions that safeguard the organizations platforms and systems  

• Provide day-to-day administration and support for multi-cloud infrastructure related to API, application security, firewalls, encryption, intrusion detection systems, PKI, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, security monitoring tools, penetration testing, authentication, web filtering, identity management, or access control systems, and their associated logs and processes 

• Serving as a leader, mentor, and subject-matter expert (SME) to other Information Security team members and/or stakeholders throughout the organization 

• Serving as a SAFe Product Owner for cryptographic technologies, accountable for defining/leading/maintaining the team backlog and product roadmap 

• Supporting a “you build it you own it” model – meaning the technology built by Engineering is also supported from a wing-to-wing operations aspect 

• Works closely with Information Security program manager, scrum master, and architects to convey technical impacts to development/engineering timeline and risks 

• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned 

• Bachelor degree with a minimum of 5 years experience in Application Development, Information Security, Systems Engineering or related field; in lieu of a degree, a High School Diploma/GED and minimum 7 years equivalent work experience 

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in Cloud, Cryptography, and DevSecOps 

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in leadership roles (as Cryptography Engineer is preferred) 

• Minimum 4+ years of experience with regulatory compliance and information security management frameworks (e.g., COBIT, ISO27001, NIST, etc.) 

• Proficient hands-on technical/working expertise with API development, API security, AWS (Certificate Manager, KMS, Private CA, Secrets Manager), Azure (Key Vault), big data, CI/CD pipelines, Cloudbees/Jenkins, Cloudera, containers, cryptography methodologies, data encryption, databases, GCP (Cloud KMS, Secret Manager) Git/Github, Go, HashiCorp Vault, Java, key/secrets management, Linux, Perl, PKI, Python, storage security, Terraform, tokenization 

• Ability to work under pressure and sustain productivity with multiple simultaneous projects across cross-functional engineering and operational information security teams 

• Certifications in audit, big data, cloud, cybersecurity, governance, information security, PCI, privacy, risk; AWS, Azure, CSA, GCP, GIAC, IAPP, ISC2, ISACA, PCI 

• Cloud Security experience, especially around designing, building, managing solutions with the following vendors: AWS (Primary), Azure, GCP 

• Cyber Security experience, especially around designing, building, managing solutions  

• Demonstrate an understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering consistent, efficient, high quality, reliable and responsive service to the business 

• Demonstrated experience communicating complex and technical issues to diverse audiences (verbally and in writing), in an actionable and easy to understand manner  

• Demonstrated team focused mentality with proven experience to work effectively with diverse stakeholders 

• Experience with Agile, Scaled Agile (SAFe), Scrum 

• Familiarity with problem and incident management, change management, notifications, and basic operational understanding of running and maintaining infrastructure  

• Strong interpersonal skills with an emphasis on demonstrating previous experience at effectively influencing others, cross functionally at all levels within the organization