Sr. Security Engineer

Posted 4 Days Ago
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Chicago, IL
Senior level
Fintech
Inspira Financial's innovative financial wellness solutions help people plan, save, and invest.
The Role
As a Sr. Security Engineer, you will lead security initiatives for Inspira Financial by designing and implementing reliable identity and access management solutions while ensuring compliance with security protocols. You will collaborate with teams, enhance the security posture, and manage vendor relationships, all while mentoring junior engineers and providing strategic guidance.
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Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. You will help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement. Become part of a company that is people centric and client obsessed in every interaction; a community of forward-thinking individuals focused on driving results to deliver our mission with an unwavering commitment to integrity. Join us as we strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey -- relentlessly pursuing better outcomes for all. We believe in finding the best talent! While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote roles can sit in any of the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WV. Remote status and role locations are subject to change. Relocation is not provided.
Don't meet every single requirement? Here at Inspira Financial, we believe there is no "perfect" candidate and want to encourage applying even if all the requirements listed aren't met. Our goal is to build an authentic workplace by valuing diversity in our candidates. We work to ensure that our team reflects the diversity of the businesses and clients we serve. We are always looking to expand our growing team with dynamic and enthusiastic individuals. If you enjoy a collaborative, fun environment that champions career development, Inspira Financial is the place for you! We look forward to receiving your application! Check out this Inspira Financial video to learn more about our company!
Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. With more than 7 million clients, representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira works with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners -- helping the people they care about plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Inspira relentlessly pursues better outcomes for all with our automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings funds, custody services, and more. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com .
We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In's 2024 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Sr. Security Engineer empowers business leaders to continue to grow our business securely and our clients to achieve financial wellbeing with confidence. We are a cloud enterprise, with critical services delivered in hybrid cloud environments and emerging cloud-based data warehouse. This role will engage with leaders and colleagues across the enterprise. The incumbent will ensure the highest standard of security for Inspira Financial products and our clients. This role will lead collaborations across various teams to develop, design and execute security priorities that directly impact all of Inspira Financial client facing platforms. The incumbent will research, recommend, and deploy new services and solutions.

  • Develop a strong knowledge and skillset across all security functional areas including application security, technical project management, third party risk, policy governance, awareness training.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert that contributes directly to the development of Inspira's IAM strategy, policy, standards, and procedures.
  • Collaborate with various business areas and teams to evaluate IAM strategies to improve security posture and enhance protection of sensitive data, evaluate potential compliance areas to identify gaps, and ensure full compliance with data protection laws and regulations.
  • Plan, develop, implement, and maintain a digital identity program to support the protection of Inspira while satisfying compliance and contractual requirements.
  • Assist in the design, configuration, and implementation of robust identity and access solutions including tools to support onboarding, offboarding, user provisioning, deprovisioning, single sign on, federated identities, multi-factor authentication, and privileged account management solutions.
  • Define or augment access control protocols and establish role-based access control mechanisms to maintain a strategy of least privilege.
  • Manage and mature processes for recertification of user access.
  • Develop and maintain key vendor and other partner relationships to support the identity program.
  • Define metrics and develop reporting on the efficacy of access controls.
  • Assist and coordinate cross-functional work with other internal business units, such as Compliance, Legal, IT, Finance, HR, and engage with other leaders to drive security outcomes that benefit the organization.
  • Provide guidance to Security Engineer I/II roles.
  • Other duties as assigned


Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software/Computing Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or related field
  • 5 - 7 years of applicable experience
  • Background in all aspects of Identity & Access Management
  • PAM and/or Secrets Management experience
  • Experience with Cloud Privileged Access Management platforms
  • Experience with SaaS platforms and Auth0 or equivalent CIAM tools (AWS Cognito, OneLogin, PingOne
  • Experience with Access Federation and Multi-Factor Authentication
  • Working knowledge of authentication and authorization capabilities for operating systems and applications as well as working knowledge of security protocols such as Kerberos, SAML, OAUTH, OIDC, etc
  • Highly self-motivated
  • Possess a combination of technology, security, and analytics skills
  • Knowledge of the Financial or Insurance Services Industry preferred
  • Intellectual curiosity to find new and unusual ways of how to solve cyber security issues
  • Ability to approach cyber security challenges while keeping an eye on what is important
  • Experience interpreting, analyzing, and maintaining systems
  • Ability to create and maintaining respectful, strong working relationships with both IT and business units to integrate security principles with business operations
  • Strong client service orientation
  • Ability to prioritize, plan and take initiative and be highly self-motivated
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills; positive attitude; ability to work as team member
  • Experience in a high availability environment preferred
  • Knowledge of NIST and CIS practices and frameworks preferred


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Compensation & Benefits
The compensation for this position will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive and bonus opportunities.
Inspira provides industry-leading benefits including, but not limited to: healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, paid time off, parental leave and an employee assistance program.

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The Company
HQ: Oak Brook, IL
1,537 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 2000

What We Do

Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. With more than 7 million clients, representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira works with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners — helping the people they care about plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Inspira relentlessly pursues better outcomes for all with our automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings funds, custody services, and more. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com.

Why Work With Us

Inspira Financial is a leading financial services company offering specialized financial wellness solutions to employers, institutions, advisors, and individuals.

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Our company is located in the heart of Oak Brook, IL, a suburb of Chicago, located about 19 miles west of the Chicago Loop (downtown Chicago).

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