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If you want to apply, click the Apply Now button at the top or bottom of this page. After you click Apply Now and complete your application, you'll be invited to create a profile, which will let you see your application status and any communications. If you already have a profile with us, you can log in to check status.\nNeed Help?\nIf you have a disability and need assistance with the application, you can request a reasonable accommodation. Send an email to Accessibility (accommodation requests only; other inquiries won't receive a response).\nRegular or Temporary:\nRegularLanguage Fluency: English (Required)\nWork Shift:\n1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:\nDesigns, develops, and optimizes the advanced technical and cybersecurity capabilities for threat modeling. Plans, builds, and enhances cybersecurity technologies by baselining systems, analyzing trends, and preparing for future requirements to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure technology solutions with significant impact on the department and broader organization.This position is onsite, office-centric (5 days a week), based in a Truist core location:\nNorth Carolina: Charlotte/Raleigh/Greensboro\nGeorgia: Atlanta\nVirginia: Richmond\nFlorida: Orlando\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nFollowing is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.\nDesigns and implements sophisticated cybersecurity solutions that safeguard critical organizational and divisional assets, contributing technical direction for complex implementations in line with established strategies.\nPerforms and enhances comprehensive threat modeling for high risk platforms and services, applying advanced techniques to uncover and recommend complex vulnerability remediations.\nActs as a senior technical expert for difficult security issues, diagnosing recurring problems and developing innovative, reusable solutions that improve team and divisional practices.\nEvaluates emerging security threats, technology trends, and architectural patterns, and provides recommendations that inform technical roadmaps and operational plans within the division.\nPartners with senior leadership, product, and engineering teams to implement modern security architecture, secure by design practices, and governance controls throughout development lifecycles.\nEstablishes and documents security baselines, guardrails, and control patterns for systems and applications in the domain, providing input into mechanisms that support regulatory and policy compliance at scale.\nProvides senior technical leadership during major incident response and forensic investigations, shaping response execution, tooling usage, and playbook improvements to strengthen resilience and recovery.\nMentors and coaches other senior and midlevel engineers through code and design reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical training, advancing security engineering skills across teams.\nContributes expert input into divisional technology strategy, security standards, and risk management approaches.\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nThe requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nBachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.\nMinimum of 10 years of experience in security engineering or related cybersecurity roles.\nDeep specialized knowledge in cybersecurity principles, theories, and concepts.\nExtensive experience in software development lifecycle security practices.\nExpertise in threat modeling, security testing, and penetration testing.\nProven experience implementing and managing complex information security technologies.\nPreferred Qualifications\nDeep familiarity with industry security standards and frameworks such as OWASP ASVS, the OWASP Top 10 lists, MITRE ATT&CK, MITRE CAPEC, CWE, and NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF).\nExperience developing or improving threat modeling standards, templates, processes, tooling, or automation for use across an engineering organization.\nDemonstrated ability to lead threat modeling engagements for complex, distributed systems with minimal oversight, translating threat model findings into specific, actionable security requirements and effectively challenging architectural assumptions.\nExperience working with development teams to prioritize threats based on exploitability, business impact, compensating controls, and realistic attack scenarios.\nExperience using findings from security testing to validate findings identified through threat modeling.\nDemonstrated experience applying methodologies such as STRIDE, PASTA, attack trees, abuse cases, or data-flow-based threat analysis.\nStrong understanding of application security architecture, including authentication and authorization, session management, secrets management, cryptography, API security, network trust boundaries, and secure data flows.\nAdvanced cybersecurity certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, GIAC).\nExperience with security automation, orchestration, and advanced threat detection tools.\nFamiliarity with emerging cybersecurity technologies, industry trends, and strategic risk management.\nThe annual base salary for this position is $160,000 - $195,000.\nGeneral Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truistoffers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.\nTruist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. 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