VP, Cryptography Engineer

Role Summary/

Purpose:

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 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) lead while supporting other efforts, such as Cloud Security, Cryptography, Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, Privacy, and Tokenization. The candidate would have an engineering position focused on delivering critical/key enterprise data protection controls, efficient supporting processes, and comprehensive automation capabilities to protect & enable Synchrony’s Information Security Engineering strategy  candidate is expected to have a strong understanding and technical work experience with Cloud Security, Cryptography, Dev Sec Ops , Information Security, Key/Secrets Management, PKI (competency skills/work experience domains include automation, controls, governance, lifecycle management, operations, process engineering, and security standards development).

Essential Responsibilities:

• The adoption and promotion of engineering excellence by identifying efficiencies and synergies through automation, collaboration, and orchestration.
• Collaborate with architecture to identify capability gaps, develop requirements, and identify solutions to address gaps, assist with proof of concepts and testing of solutions.
• Implementation and technical lead responsibilities that include ongoing Dev Sec Ops  / Engineering support for a global cryptography program that leverages a portfolio of multi‑cloud data protection capabilities.
• Manage technology from the ground up and understand gaps within the tech stack, including overlap with other technology and/or coverage.
• Maintain technology from a business-as-usual (BAU) aspect by ensuring the proper change management, disaster recovery, incident management processes are occurring and current.
• Participate as one of several technical leads on a team of Information Security engineers.
• Participate in authoring, editing, providing, or reviewing documentation (procedures, standards) to ensure a well‑managed and mature security infrastructure.
• Partner 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.
• Play a hands‑on role in the engineering and implementation of multi‑cloud security measures that protect enterprise applications, computer systems, information, infrastructure, and networks.
• Play a key role in designing and building multi‑cloud solutions that safeguard the organization’s platforms and systems.
• Proactively identify problems and clearly articulate solutions and recommendations.
• 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.
• Provide engineering/operations support for multi‑cloud technology and processes, ensuring superior customer service is being met, and identifying process improvements.
• Serve as a leader, mentor, and subject‑matter expert (SME) to other Information Security team members and/or stakeholders throughout the organization.
• Serve as a SAFe Product Owner for cryptographic technologies, accountable for defining, leading, maintaining the team backlog and product roadmap.
• Support a “you build it you…