Arlington, Massachusetts, US (Hybrid)2 open jobs
Massachusetts bank founded in 2002 with more than $5 billion in assets, offering residential and commercial mortgages, business banking, and deposits across New England.
Leader Bank is a Massachusetts financial institution that has grown from a seven-person startup in 2002 to 450+ team members, 7 branch offices, and more than $5 billion in total assets. The business runs on residential and commercial mortgage lending, business banking, and deposits - with annual residential mortgage originations exceeding $2 billion. For security work, that combination matters: the institution holds deposit accounts, business banking relationships, and the deep personal and financial data that a mortgage pipeline generates, across Massachusetts and the wider New England market.
The stated technical agenda is digital transformation, data-driven decision-making, and banking platform technology, alongside a stated focus on continual improvement of products and processes. That framing implies modernization of legacy banking workflows and an expanding surface around the systems that move money and underwrite loans - the two functions where fraud, account takeover, and data exposure carry the most direct cost. The bank describes an entrepreneurial banking culture built on personal client service and long-term client relationships, which in practice means the security posture has to protect trust at the account level, not just at the perimeter.
Scale has come fast: from $6.5 million in assets at launch to over $5 billion, from 1 branch to 7. Growing institutions tend to accrete tooling and integrations faster than they consolidate them, and a mortgage book of that size touches lenders, borrowers, commercial real estate counterparties, and third-party services. The bank cites competitive compensation and benefits, work-life balance, and a diversity and inclusion focus alongside its digital transformation push.
