Lakeland, Florida, US (On-site)1 open job
Horizon Farm Credit is a customer-owned cooperative lender serving agriculture and rural communities across Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia with loans, crop insurance, and farm services.
Horizon Farm Credit is a financial institution - specifically a customer-owned cooperative lender inside the nationwide Farm Credit System - extending credit and related services to agriculture, ranching, and rural businesses across Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Headquarters sit in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The book of business is not one product: agriculture loans, home loans for rural customers, land loans, agricultural leases, beginning farmer loans, crop insurance, risk management services, farm appraisal, and accounting support. That breadth is the security problem stated plainly - a lender-grade attack surface spanning loan origination and servicing data, insurance and appraisal records, and customer financial accounts, distributed across five states.
The model adds a wrinkle: Horizon is a cooperative, so profits flow back to customer-owners through a patronage program that can reduce effective interest rates by roughly one percent. Protecting the systems that calculate and distribute those dividends is protecting money that belongs directly to the membership, not to outside shareholders. Combined with over a century of lender experience in the Mid-Atlantic and a mandate that runs from beginning farmers through established operations, the data lifecycle is long-lived and deeply regional - rural customers, agricultural and related industries, and the appraisal and accounting workflows that support them.
Security work in this context is regulated-financial-institution work with an ag-specific payload: lending and finance systems, risk management and crop insurance records, farm appraisal data, and the accounting support layer. The threat model is standard for a mid-market lender with concentrated regional exposure - credential theft and business email compromise aimed at loan and payment workflows, ransomware against systems that serve rural customers who have few alternatives, and data exposure in insurance and appraisal records that describe both finances and physical land.
