Envestnet

Lead Information Security Engineer

Envestnet$138K — $173K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in security engineering, security architecture, or related fields
  • Hands-on expertise in securing AI/ML systems and applications
  • Familiarity with cloud security and identity/security platform engineering
  • Demonstrated understanding of AI-specific threat vectors and mitigation strategies
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with effective communication to technical and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Continuously assess the organization's security landscape using advanced automation and offensive security techniques
  • Develop and implement security controls, defenses, and countermeasures against attacks
  • Lead Information Security Engineering projects providing direction and support
  • Analyze potential risks to information system security and recommend solutions
  • Integrate network security controls to identify and mitigate risks
  • Secure AI platforms through architecture reviews and risk assessments
  • Conduct adversarial testing and threat assessments for AI systems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical insurance
  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • 401k company match
  • Paid parental leave
  • Education reimbursement
  • Disability coverage
  • Mental health & wellness support
Full Job Description
Description

The application window will close November 1st, 2026

Job Location

The primary work location for this role is Berwyn with a hybrid work model.

The Team You'll Join

You will join Envestnet's Technology team, where we design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and robust WealthTech solutions that power the future of financial advice. The team collaborates closely with product, operations, and business stakeholders to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and enable sustainable growth. Guided by modern engineering practices and a commitment to domain excellence, technical rigor, and collaboration, the Technology team ensures our platforms remain resilient, adaptable, and aligned with evolving business needs making it a core driver of Envestnet's long term success.

How You'll Contribute

Continuously assesses the organization's security landscape, utilizing cutting-edge automation and offensive security techniques to validate controls and uncover potential areas of risk. Utilizes architecture and engineering insights into major cloud and on-premise workloads to integrate continuous monitoring, automated validation and offensive security into a cohesive strategy and strengthen the overall security posture. Works cross-organizationally to ensure that security controls are effective, risks are understood and mitigations properly addressed and validated.
  • Provides Information Security Engineering support for broad areas of the company.
  • Develops and executes security controls and reports, defenses and countermeasures to detect, analyze, investigate and respond to internal or external attacks and infiltration attempts.
  • Leads or provides direction for Information Security Engineering projects.
  • Provides complex analysis of potential risks to information systems security and recommends innovative solutions.
  • Recommends and implements changes to procedures and systems to enhance information systems security.
  • Integrates network security controls into an environment to identify risks and reduce their impact.
  • Provides guidance and advice to less experienced team members.
  • Secure AI platforms, agents, MCP integrations, plugins, toolchains, and agent-to-agent workflows through architecture reviews, risk assessments, and control validation.
  • Implement and enhance AI security controls, including data protection, model governance, source code safeguards, and AI-specific risk mitigation capabilities.
  • Develop and maintain AI security monitoring, detection, investigation, and incident response capabilities to identify and respond to threats across AI environments.
  • Conduct and participate in adversarial testing, threat assessments, and red/purple team exercises involving AI systems, while evaluating emerging AI technologies, attack techniques, and security risks to enable secure adoption.


What You'll Need to Bring

  • Candidates should demonstrate the relevant experience, skills, and capabilities needed to successfully perform in the role. Relevant experience may be gained through current responsibilities, prior roles, project work, leadership opportunities, or other comparable experiences.
  • Progressive experience in security engineering, security architecture, cloud security, application security, or identity/security platform engineering in enterprise cybersecurity roles.
  • Hands-on experience securing AI/ML systems, AI-enabled applications, and agentic ecosystems - including AI governance, agent frameworks, RAG architectures, and LLM integrations - with experience leading the security architecture, implementation, and assessment of AI platforms such as AWS Bedrock, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and MCP integrations. Broad familiarity with the evolving agentic landscape, including plugins, skills, routines, desktop integrations, agent marketplaces, tool-invocation frameworks, and orchestration platforms.
  • Demonstrated experience securing and assessing authentication, authorization, and trust models across complex enterprise and AI environments, including delegated access, workload identities, service principals/accounts, API keys, OAuth/OIDC flows, token delegation, agent impersonation, consent models, permissions, delegated workflows, data access controls, autonomous actions, and cross-system trust relationships.
  • AI-specific threat knowledge - experience identifying and mitigating AI-specific attack vectors: prompt injection, jailbreaking, model/data exfiltration, data poisoning, and insecure output handling in LLM-integrated systems.
  • Securing AI-assisted development and product-line AI implementation - experience assessing risks AI tools and AI-driven features introduce across the software lifecycle, from code generation to production deployment.
  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex security risks and communicate recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.


Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience developing automation to validate security controls, detect configuration drift, and improve visibility into AI usage, security posture, and risk.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native security controls, detection engineering, incident response, and security operations within AI-enabled environments.
  • Experience with AI red-teaming or adversarial testing of LLM- and agent-based systems.
  • Experience assessing third-party AI vendors or SaaS tools for data handling and security risk.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, GIAC) and/or AI/ML, application security, cloud, or identity-focused certifications demonstrating hands-on experience securing modern AI-enabled systems.


Sponsorship

This position is not open to candidates requiring visa sponsorship

Our Investment in You

This role offers a base salary range of $138,500 to $173,100. The range listed represents a good-faith estimate of base salary compensation for this position and does not include incentive compensation, equity or benefits. Individual pay will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, certifications, and geographic location, in accordance with applicable pay transparency laws. This role is eligible for an additional incentive component as part of the total rewards package.

We provide a comprehensive suite of benefits - subject to Envestnet's plan eligibility rules - that support your overall well-being including, medical insurance, paid time off (PTO), 401k company match, paid parental leave, education reimbursement, disability coverage and mental health & wellness support. Our investment in you means supporting you professionally, financially, and personally at every stage of your journey with us. Please visit our benefits page on our career site to learn more.

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About Envestnet

Envestnet, Inc. is a leading provider of intelligent systems for wealth management and financial wellness. The company's platform provides financial advisors with a range of tools and services to help them manage their clients' investments and financial goals. Envestnet's platform includes a range of features, including portfolio management, financial planning, and data analytics. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and has operations in more than 20 countries around the world. Envestnet was founded in 1999 and went public in 2010.
Learn more about Envestnet
Size
4,375 employees
Market Cap
$3.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$3.1 million
Founded
1999
5 Year Trend
+15.5%
Revenue
$998.2 million
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