WHO WE ARE

Leonteq is a Swiss fintech company with a leading marketplace for structured investment solutions. Based on proprietary modern technology, the company offers derivative investment products and services and predominantly covers the capital protection, yield enhancement and participation product classes. Leonteq acts as both a direct issuer of its own products and as a partner to other financial institutions. Leonteq further enables life insurance companies and banks to produce capital-efficient, unit-linked pension products with guarantees.

Leonteq generated turnover of CHF 21.3 billion and posted total operating income of CHF 260.0 million in 2023. As of 31 December 2023, Leonteq's shareholders' equity totalled CHF 780.1 million.

Leonteq has an investment grade rating from the rating agencies Fitch Ratings Ltd. and Japan Credit Rating Agency, Ltd., who have evaluated and assigned ratings to Leonteq AG and Leonteq Securities AG, respectively. Furthermore, Leonteq has ESG ratings from both MSCI as well as Sustainalytics.

Leonteq is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (SIX: LEON) and is a securities firm regulated by the Swiss Financial Market Authority FINMA and is a member of the Swiss Structured Product Association.

Founded in 2007, Leonteq today has offices and subsidiaries in 13 countries, through which it serves over 50 markets. The company employs over 500 professionals from more than 50 nationalities around the world and brings a young, dynamic and diverse workforce to the global fintech market. Leonteq's Portugal branch opened in October 2021 and is part of Leonteq's initiative to support business growth with the employment of up to 100 designated roles along the entire value chain.

About the role
Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer and working closely the IT operations teams, the security engineer will carry out tasks to ensure that the Leonteq IT environments are managed in a security and safe manner.
What you'll do

• Detect and assess security events and incidents across the enterprise
• Ensure security in software development projects by drawing up threat models, creating security concepts, applying secure development principles and other methods
• Plan, configure and implement network threat detection and response systems
• Coordinate with the CISO, the Head of Development and the Head of Operations to review & triage suspicious events
• Collect, aggregate, analyses and triage information from multiple logs/events
• Develop orchestration and automation between security tools
• Understand the global threat landscape through working with threat intelligence resources to maintain awareness
• Assist with containment of threats as well as remediation tasks during or after an incident
• Provide assistance to software engineers and architects in the area of security.
• Track latest security innovations and keep abreast of latest cyber security technologies

What you'll need

• Technical degree from a reputable university in information technology or information security
• Several years of experience in a comparable role with medium to large solution projects
• High affinity for secure software delivery
• Familiar with technologies and methods such as secure development lifecycle, threat modelling, CI tooling, secure design principles and web security
• Hands-on technologist with Dev Ops and IT architecture skills
• Deep technical understanding of networking, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, authentication/authorization and modern security technologies (SIEM, EDR, UEBA, AI/ML etc.)
• Experience in the financial or trading industry
• Great communication skills and outgoing personality comfortable in interdisciplinary teams
• Fluent English

Why you'll love working here

• Experience the dynamics of a leading fintech company
• Possibility to work with domain experts and learn from them directly
• Work in modern facilities at an exceptional location
• Hybrid work system: 3 days office and 2 home office