Distinguished Engineer - Enterprise Security

At Early Warning, we've powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

This position functions as a strategic individual contributor expected to solve challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative environment. The Distinguished Engineer will significantly impact the Security agenda within Early Warning and devise clear roadmaps to deliver next generation solutions across organizational boundaries. An ideal candidate would have a broad technical expertise and the agility to adapt, creating strategic and innovative solutions that drive business transformation and growth.

They should also excel in collaboration, influencing stakeholders to realize benefits that extend beyond their subject matter expertise.

Essential Functions

* Lead design, implementation, and ROI achievement for strategic and innovation efforts within the Security organization.

* Provide architectural and design oversight, working with other key resources to deliver practical solutions on time and within budget.

* Drive effectiveness and efficiency where needed to implement or otherwise enhance workflows to include but not limited to processes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code through orchestration or configuration, and other automation as desired.

* Provide mentorship as needed to key technical staff within the Security organization.

* Develop solutions and approaches for presented or observed challenges to enhance visibility and align to organizational objectives, while maintaining perspective for business, security, and operational ROI

* Provide expert level technical and strategic oversight of key projects and implementations performed by the Security organization; proactively identifies cross-functional dependencies and makes decisions to meet requirements, ensures user experience and minimizes operational and financial risk.

* Lead diagnosis of complex issues, guide, or otherwise perform root cause analysis where needed; provide recommendations or execution for mitigation.

* Champion a culture of innovation and excellence within an environment which requires elevated levels of scalability, security, reliability, and resiliency. Stays current on the latest industry technologies, trends, and strategies.

* Collaborate with all areas of the organization to drive root cause analysis for security related issues.

* Support the company's commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

* Education or equivalent experience in Computer Science and Engineering

* Demonstrated 15+ years of industry work experience within technology industry in applicable technology roles.

* Able to articulate and adapt within fast-paced, complex, and dynamic situations to derive solutions for presented challenges and effectively communicate with direct leadership and key stakeholders across all levels of the organization where desired.

* Expert knowledge of server and endpoint operating systems and APIs

* Expert knowledge of networking protocols and communication flows

* Expert experience with administration of enterprise level solutions across a wide spectrum to include but not limited to addressing high availability and recovery.

* Facilitate solutions through continuous integration, delivery, and deployments using industry.

* Accurately assess problems and requests from multiple perspectives, analyze approach feasibility, and decide on or otherwise drive the efficient course of action.

* Expert knowledge of common interpreted, compiled,…