Lead Security Engineer

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