Principal Associate, Cyber Risk & Analysis

Capital One Financial

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VA
Salary
$131,300–$149,800 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $141k
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This role pays less than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $140,528–$193,037 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $141k versus about $167k for comparable roles.

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About Capital One Financial

Capital One Financial is a bank holding company specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking, and savings products, known for its data-driven approach to consumer and commercial finance. Industry: Financial Services & Banking

Capital One Financial currently has 998 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Associate, Cyber Risk & Analysis

As a Principal Associate, Cyber Risk & Analysis within the Cyber organization, you will build, operate, and evolve tooling to maintain an up-to-date threat landscape for every asset in the enterprise portfolio. You will serve as a subject matter expert bridging threat intelligence, security engineering, and AI-driven automation. Your daily responsibilities include designing and maintaining a multi-agent AI profiling platform involving agent logic, prompt pipelines, and confidence scoring; managing queryable records of historical threat profiles; and developing portal and API capabilities for asset search and compliance gap exports. To succeed, you must possess expertise in AI/ML workflows, threat intelligence structures, and security breadth across cloud and application domains. Required skills include experience with Databricks, Spark, AWS or GCP environments, CI/CD integration, and familiarity with frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, and PCI DSS.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain a multi-agent AI profiling platform including agent logic and prompt pipelines.
  • Manage the production of accurate threat profiles for all assets in the enterprise portfolio.
  • Maintain a persistent, queryable record of historical threat profiles while ensuring data integrity and compliance.
  • Develop portal and API capabilities to provide automated asset search, delta views, and system integrations.
  • Monitor coverage commitments and freshness windows to identify and remediate gaps before SLA breaches.
  • Engineer production-quality tools and pipelines that security teams use at an enterprise scale.
  • Orchestrate AI agent workflows including prompt engineering, output validation, and confidence-based QA gating.

What we're looking for

  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification.
  • At least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology.
  • At least 2 years of experience in a hands-on security engineering, threat analysis, or security tooling role.
  • At least 2 years of experience building or operating automated security assessment or threat intelligence pipelines.
  • Experience designing and operating AI/ML pipelines, multi-agent systems, and prompt engineering in a security context.
  • Proficiency with cloud-native environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including IaC, APIs, containers, and CI/CD integration.
  • Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, SOX ITGC, and FFIEC.
  • Work authorization that require immigration support from an employer.

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