Staff / Platform Security Engineer

The Staff / Platform Security Engineer works under limited supervision and serves as a senior technical contributor responsible for engineering security capabilities that protect FINRA's platforms, endpoints, and workspace environments. This role combines strong hands-on engineering expertise with ownership of security standards, guidelines, and technical controls designed to reduce risk across the FINRA environment. The engineer will identify security risks, design and implement scalable security solutions, establish practical security requirements and guardrails, and partner across technology teams to drive their adoption. The ideal candidate has the technical depth to engineer and troubleshoot complex security solutions, along with the initiative and leadership to define how technologies should be securely deployed, configured, and operated across FINRA. Essential Job Functions: Partner with stakeholders to promote compliance with internal and external security requirements, policies, and standards, and develop technical approaches for improving and measuring compliance. Develop, own, and continuously improve security standards, technical guidelines, secure configuration requirements, and guardrails for endpoint and workspace technologies. Assess the security posture of platforms and technologies against established standards; identify gaps and systemic risks; develop technical strategies and solutions to reduce those risks. Review, develop, and maintain information security policies, standards, guidelines, procedures, and technical documentation, with particular emphasis on actionable technical standards. Apply security engineering principles, established processes, and technical expertise to identify, validate, prioritize, and reduce security risks across FINRA's technology environment. Engineer, automate, operate, and continuously improve security controls, emphasizing scalability, consistency, reliability, and measurable risk reduction. Provide security engineering guidance and technical expertise for the secure adoption, configuration, deployment, and operation of new and existing technologies. Architect, design, implement, and maintain security controls and solutions that protect endpoint, workspace, and related technology platforms. Partner with technology owners, engineers, architects, and other security teams to translate security requirements into practical, scalable engineering solutions and drive adoption of security standards across FINRA. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and health of security controls; investigate discrepancies or control gaps; and drive technical remediation through resolution. Review and analyze security findings, telemetry, and control output across multiple data sources to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies; prioritize risks; determine root causes; and develop repeatable technical methods for identifying and remediating security issues. Evaluate emerging security technologies, techniques, capabilities, and tools, and provide technical recommendations based on FINRA's security requirements and technology strategy. Lead or co-lead security engineering initiatives and cross-functional projects that improve security capabilities, processes, automation, and the overall security posture of FINRA. Identify opportunities to improve existing security processes, controls, and engineering practices and take ownership of driving appropriate improvements. Provide technical leadership, knowledge sharing, and mentoring to engineers and other technology professionals. Assist with adherence to technology policies and comply with all applicable security controls. Ensure work products meet or exceed FINRA standards and demonstrate FINRA's values through technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Collaborate effectively, both in person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA's mission of investor protection and market integrity. Education/Experience Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least three (3) years of related experience, or equivalent training and / or work experience. Experience must include direct experience in more than one of the following areas: securing networks and systems architecture, design and implementation, secure software assurance, intrusion detection, defense and incident response, security configuration management, access controls design and implementation and security policy and standards development. Knowledge of communications protocols. Experience with one or more Cyber Security tools, including: Configuration Assessment, Log Aggregation, Integrity Verification, Web Application Security Testing, Network Access Control System, Network Intrusion prevention systems, and Endpoint Security Solutions. Strong written and verbal technical communication skills. Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships that improved the quality of work products. Should be well organized, thorough, and able to handle competing priorities. Ability to maintain focus and develop proficiency in new skills rapidly. Ability to work in a fast paced environment. Solid knowledge of more than one Information Security principle and discipline Preferred: Experience with SQL and regular expression (Regex) skills, with demonstrated ability to query and analyze large datasets, correlate security telemetry across multiple data sources, identify patterns and anomalies, and develop repeatable methods for security analysis and reporting. Work Conditions: Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements. Occasional travel and extended hours may be required. For work that is performed in CO, CT, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, WA, DC, NY, NJ, WA please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and re