Bay City, Michigan, US (On-site)1 open job
Michigan community bank founded in 1864; ~$5.5B in assets, 60+ locations, ~782 employees. NASDAQ: IBCP. Personal and business banking, mortgages, wealth management, title services.
Independent Bank is a Michigan-based community bank founded in 1864, originally as the First National Bank of Ionia. Its holding company, Independent Bank Corporation, trades on NASDAQ as IBCP. The bank reports roughly $5.5 billion in total assets, about 782 employees, and a footprint of more than 60 locations across Michigan's Lower Peninsula, with headquarters in Grand Rapids.
The threat model is the familiar one for a regulated depository of this size: customer deposit and mortgage data, wealth management holdings, commercial banking relationships, and title services records, distributed across a branch network rather than concentrated in one datacenter. That means the attack surface spans core banking systems, digital banking channels, internal networks at 60-plus sites, and third-party integrations - with the usual banking regulatory perimeter around all of it. Any security role here operates against fraud, credential theft, business email compromise aimed at commercial customers, and ransomware targeting financial infrastructure.
The product line a security team would be protecting runs wide: personal checking and savings accounts, residential mortgages, commercial banking services, wealth and investment management, and title insurance. The bank describes its operating approach as people-focused and relationship-driven rather than transactional, with an stated mission of "inspiring financial independence today, with tomorrow in mind" and commitments to customers, stockholders, and the Michigan communities it serves. It is one of the largest community bank holding companies in the state.
