Lead, Cyber Security Engineer (Remote)

Progressive Leasing is a leading provider of in-store and e-commerce lease-to-own solutions. With more than 20 years in FinTech, we’ve grown from start-up to industry leader by innovating, simplifying, and valuing people. We are a subsidiary of PROG Holdings (NYSE: PRG), a FinTech holding company with three business segments: Progressive Leasing, Purchasing Power (a leading employee purchase program for consumer products and services using payroll deduction), and Four, a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) platform. We are currently hiring a Cybersecurity Engineering Lead to help grow our company and ensure our mission is achieved! This role is work from home position and can be performed remotely anywhere in the continental US or in one of our corporate locations in Utah, Arizona or Colorado WE ARE: Prog Tech embodies the modernity and transformational vision that is core to our business evolution. As passionate and hungry technical experts, we join together on the mission of progressing through technology. We believe in taking pride in our engineering, in the relentless pursuit of daily progress, and to bring others with you in your march to the future. We continuously experiment, fail fast, and constantly deliver. YOU ARE: A hands-on leader who empowers security engineering and technology teams with the expertise, tooling, and direction needed to design, build, and operate secure platforms at scale. You lead a team responsible for core security engineering capabilities including cloud and infrastructure security, threat detection and response tooling, identity and access controls, endpoint protection, and security automation. You combine strong people leadership with deep technical expertise, driving engineering excellence while remaining actively involved in architecture decisions, solution design, and complex security problem solving. This role is a work from home position and can be performed remotely anywhere in the continental US or in our corporate location in Draper, Utah. Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development. YOUR DAY-TO-DAY

• Provide techincal leadership and mentorship a team of cybersecurity engineers to help safeguard the PROG enterprise.
• Oversee the deployment, integration, and maintenance of cybersecurity systems per best practices and business needs.
• Optimize systems to handle growth, stay operational, and perform consistently without disruption.
• Build systems documentation and transition systems to operational support teams.
• Partner with Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC), Identity & Access Management (IAM), Application Security, and Security Operations teams to explore opportunities for continued integration, process improvement, and systems automation.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders in IT, legal, and other business teams to establish alignment on deliverables and goals.
• Build and Maintain systems inventory & technology lifecycle.
• Work with cybersecurity architects to build and maintain the cybersecurity technology roadmap.
• Establishing/Maintaining the strategy, workplan, and financial forecasting for the cybersecurity engineering organization.
• Build and maintain relationships with OEMs and partners of cybersecurity technologies.
• Stay updated with the latest threats and technological advancements in cybersecurity.

YOU’LL BRING:

• Strong leadership and team mentorship skills, with experience leading cybersecurity initiatives.
• Extensive hands-on technical background.
• Proficiency in security technologies and tools, including SIEM, DLP, Email Security, Firewalls, IPS, Endpoint Security and many more to support a defense-in-depth strategy.
• Proven track record in delivering large-scale projects.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and mitigate cybersecurity risks.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple and sometimes competing projects, priorities, or objectives.
• Learns quickly, stays focused on the job with attention to detail, and produces desired outcomes.
• Working knowledge and understanding of risks in a hybrid hosting environment, with cloud concentration in AWS and Azure.

Why Join Us

• Enterprise Impact – Visible leadership role in managing the capabilities that protect the PROG enterprise.
• Remote work
• Collaborative Culture – Join a team that offers the opportunity to collaborate with outstanding people, while promoting innovation and security best practices.
• Gain well rounded experience – Work in a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work across multiple areas of the business.
• Innovation – Working with advanced cybersecurity technologies.

WE OFFER:

• Competitive Compensation
• Full Health Benefits; Medical/Dental/Vision/Lif Insurance + Paid Parental Leave
• Company Matched 401k
• Paid Time Off + Paid Holidays + Paid Volunteer Hours
• Employee Resource Groups (Black Inclusion Group, Women in Leadership, PRIDE, Adelante)
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Charitable Gift Matching
• Job required equipment and services

Progressive Leasing welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace. We do not discriminate in any aspect of employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Progressive Leasing does business. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job