Director, Vulnerability Engineering
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Role Overview
The Director of Vulnerability Engineering leads application and data engineering teams building and operating a platform for end-to-end vulnerability management.
The platform will also support exposure management, reporting, internal automation, AI skills, and controls engineering.
The role reports to the Senior Principal, Vulnerability and Exposure Management, and operates at enterprise scale.
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Opportunity Overview
The Director of Vulnerability Engineering leads application and data engineering teams building and operating a platform for end-to-end vulnerability management.
The platform will also support exposure management, reporting, internal automation, AI skills, and controls engineering.
The role reports to the Senior Principal, Vulnerability and Exposure Management, and operates at enterprise scale.
What You Will Do
- Oversee enterprise application security services including secure design, testing, remediation, and training.
- Manage budgets, resources, compliance, regulatory requirements, and complex application security initiatives.
- Lead application and data engineering teams delivering the vulnerability management platform.
- Partner with product teams to design and operationalize platform capabilities for end-to-end vulnerability workflows.
- Define the roadmap for exposure management and reporting and deliver automation and AI capabilities.
- Manage automated controls validation, establish engineering standards, and lead cross-functional technology partnerships.
- Attract, retain, coach, and grow engineering talent across application development and data engineering.
Must Have
- At least 6 years of software engineering experience with progressive leadership responsibility.
- Experience leading application and data engineering teams in an enterprise environment.
- Experience designing and delivering platforms supporting end-to-end operational workflows.
- Working familiarity with data modeling, graph databases, or knowledge graph architectures.
- Experience building and operationalizing automation at scale.
- Ability to translate business requirements into engineering delivery and manage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working within regulated industries, with financial services preferred.
Nice to Have
- Understanding of vulnerability management, exposure management, or cybersecurity operations.
- Experience with AI or machine-learning integration, LLM-based tooling, or intelligent automation.
- Familiarity with security control frameworks and control validation methodologies.
- Experience with Neo4j, Neptune, or similar graph technologies.
- Familiarity with agile delivery practices and engineering governance at scale.
Job Skills
- The posting identifies application security, collaboration, computer engineering, cybersecurity management, decision making, information security management, security architecture, security engineering, leadership, and SIEM among the job skills.
What’s In It For You
- RBC offers total rewards, flexible benefits, development support, coaching opportunities, training, work-life balance options, and challenging work in a collaborative technology organization.
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