[Hiring] Lead Information Security Engineer @Reinsurance Group of America

Role Description

Leads the design and delivery of security data engineering and intelligence capabilities that integrate, correlate, enrich, and operationalize data across security, governance, cloud, application, endpoint, vulnerability, and risk platforms. Builds governed, reusable data products and analytics that improve risk prioritization, remediation effectiveness, control visibility, and measurement of security outcomes. Serves as a hands-on technical lead, leads small and complex cross-functional initiatives, mentors technical staff, and partners with leaders, control owners, remediation teams, Enterprise Data Platform teams, and other stakeholders. Helps define, build, validate, and socialize trusted KPIs, KRIs, control-effectiveness measures, and outcome-based metrics that support clear accountability and measurable risk reduction.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) or equivalent experience
• Preferred: Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) or relevant professional industry certification
• CISSP, CISA, CCSP, CGRC, Comptia CASP+, OSCP, CEH Certifications

Requirements

• Required: 6+ years of experience in security engineering, information systems, data engineering, security analytics, application development, or a closely related discipline, including significant hands-on security technical delivery.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical projects or small project teams, guiding solution design, mentoring others, and driving work through delivery.
• Preferred: Experience managing and developing security data products, analytics, reporting, or metrics within a governed enterprise data environment.
• Preferred Technical Experience:
  • Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Atlan, Power BI, Git-based development workflows, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containers, or serverless application patterns.
  • Experience with security platforms such as Wiz, GitHub Advanced Security, GitGuardian, CrowdStrike, Tenable, Nucleus, LogicGate, or comparable technologies.
  • Knowledge of exposure management, vulnerability prioritization, risk-based remediation, security program measurement, and control-effectiveness reporting.
  • Experience with AI-enabled integrations, automation, or Model Context Protocol.
  • Relevant cloud, security, data engineering, analytics, or architecture certifications.

Skills and Abilities

• Strong information security knowledge and the ability to work with vulnerability, exposure, cloud, application, endpoint, identity, governance, and control data.
• Experience defining and operationalizing KPIs, KRIs, control measures, and outcome-based metrics, including calculation logic, thresholds, targets, ownership, and validation.
• Working knowledge of governed data-product practices, including role-based access, lineage, metadata, data quality, ownership, and secure data sharing.
• Experience with security analytics, business intelligence, dashboard development, data visualization, and executive or operational reporting.
• Advanced hands-on skill with Python, SQL, APIs, data modeling, databases, and automated data pipelines.
• Experience building analytical models, pipelines, or data products on Snowflake, an enterprise data platform, or a comparable cloud data ecosystem.
• Experience designing, developing, deploying, and operating applications or data services in AWS or another major cloud platform.
• Advanced oral and written communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical and risk concepts to leaders, control owners, engineers, and remediation teams.
• Advanced ability to translate business and security needs into maintainable technical solutions, measurable outcomes, and actionable recommendations.
• Advanced investigative, analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder-management, change-management, negotiation, and influence skills.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture with hands-on engineering, manage competing priorities, and operate effectively with limited direction.
• Ability to work effectively across technical, operational, risk, governance, and business functions.

Benefits

• Gain valuable knowledge from and experience with diverse, caring colleagues around the world.
• Enjoy a respectful, welcoming environment that fosters individuality and encourages pioneering thought.
• Join the bright and creative minds of RGA, and experience vast, endless career potential.

Compensation Range

$126,710.00 - $188,840.00 Annual. Base pay varies depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and market location. In addition, RGA provides an annual bonus plan that includes all roles and some positions are eligible for participation in our long-term equity incentive plan. RGA also maintains a full range of health, retirement, and other employee benefits.