Senior Software Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Who Are We?

Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category

Technology

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range

$135,700.00 - $223,900.00

Target Openings

1

What Is the Opportunity?

Travelers is seeking a Senior Security Software Engineer to join our Cybersecurity & Identity Engineering organization as we grow and transform our Technology landscape. This role will focus on enhancing the security posture of our products, applications, and infrastructure, ensuring compliance with quality systems and processes. Individual will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing comprehensive cybersecurity plans across our portfolio, including expansion of secrets management platforms, cryptography services, public key infrastructure, cloud services, zero trust supporting infrastructure and custom in-house services. The ideal candidate will possess advanced technical proficiency with software development, process automation and communication skills to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external consultants. This position is integral to the Cybersecurity, Identity and Engineering organization, where you will lead and support security activities, including risk assessments, security analysis, technical documentation and mentorship. The individual in this role will influence without authority, across the entire security engineering community at Travelers, while partnering with architecture and infrastructure engineering.

What Will You Do?

• Take lead in design, installation, maintenance, upgrade, security, disaster recovery and enhancement of custom in-house or off the shelf security software.
• Rapidly master the technical aspects of Travelers security products and business partner needs to drive essential changes and improvements.
• Perform complex analysis, advanced level design, configuration and develop functions for impactful and high-visibility tasks.
• Drive automation strategies for encryption, secrets, key management products and services, zero trust supporting infrastructure, and security applications deployed in physical, virtual, and Cloud environments.
• Oversee activities in functional areas, divisions, or projects as needed, ensuring compliance with company policies and regulatory requirement.
• Participate in research, analysis and evaluation of new zero trust solutions and services in the cloud, local data center, and desktop environments.
• Develop metrics and dashboards for deployed security solutions coverage and utilization and implement performance improvement measures.
• Take the lead on directing and implementing solutions to moderately complex, loosely scoped problems that are aligned with team goals.
• Deliver efforts both independently and by leading other team members.
• Act as a technology advocate, independently seeking opportunities where technology can be utilized to improve the business.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship while fostering a team environment.
• Apply knowledge of current industry trends and techniques to formulate solutions within the context of assigned efforts.
• Seek opportunities to expand technical knowledge and capabilities.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Broad knowledge of all IT related technologies with subject matter expertise in IT Security related technology and business exposures impacting organizational vitality preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, with ability to relate to the audience. Prior experience presenting to the leadership and software engineering community, creating content that is audience appropriate.
• Basic application security skills are a must.
• Desire to grow in application security space is a must.
• Prior application architecture experience is a plus.
• Leadership skills. Able to take work from inception to completion with minimal oversight.
• Delivery - Advanced delivery skills including the ability to determine the software design strategy and methodology to be used for efforts, use automated tests, analysis, and informed feedback loops to ensure the quality and production readiness of work before release, monitor the health of work efforts and that of adjacent systems.
• Domain Expertise - Demonstrated track record of domain expertise including the ability to develop business partnerships and influence priorities by identifying solutions that are aligned with current business objective and closely follow industry trends relevant to domain, understanding how to apply them, and sharing knowledge with coworkers.
• Problem Solving - Strong problem solver who utilizes data and proofs of concepts to find creative solutions to difficult problems, reflects on solutions, measuring their impact, and uses that information to ideate and optimize. Also adept at making decisions that involve a significant number of factors with broad implications.
• Communication - Strong communicator who possesses the ability to describe technology concepts in ways the business can understand, document initiatives in a concise and clear manner, collaborate effectively with teammates and others regardless of role, quickly extract core issues from discussions and meetings, give and receive constructive feedback, offer help when asked, and ensure everyone has a chance to share their thoughts and are heard; an attentive and empathetic listener.
• Leadership - Advanced leadership skills with the ability to take action even when there is no clear owner, inspire and motivate others, and be effective at influencing engineering community at Travelers.
• Application Security - Demonstrated knowledge of application security tools and best practices, including vulnerability scanning and management.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or its equivalent in work experience.
• Three years of programming/development experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results. 

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Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

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