Job Description Summary

This role provides the scope to lead and enhance security for our next generation of products, while ensuring the current products are kept secure, to deal with the constant changes in the threat landscape. Day to day primary responsibilities include leadership in enhancing security tools and processes, relationship management, providing guidance to the team to deliver quality and secure application and our clients. Relationship building, influencing change, and creating synergies are key. These requirements can be achieved by leveraging and creating alignment with the extended team within BD, suppliers/partners and with the larger BD organization of resources and experts.

Job Description

We are the makers of possible

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.

Why join us?

A career at BD means learning and working alongside inspirational leaders and colleagues who are equally passionate and committed to fostering an inclusive, growth-centered, and rewarding culture. You will have the opportunity to help shape the trajectory of BD while leaving a legacy at the same time.

To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of health. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive. And find satisfaction in doing your part to make the world a better place.

Become a maker of possible with us!

Our vision for Medication Management Solutions at BD

With our technical capabilities, the Medication Management Solutions (MMS) team are able to manage multiple systems and our operational capabilities enable us to have medications available when and where needed, reducing inefficiency and waste for nursing and pharmacy teams.

About the role

Being a Staff Product Security Engineer, your role will be vital in defining and guiding the security strategy for our product lineup. This opportunity enables you to instil a culture that prioritises security, ensuring that our products satisfy the highest cybersecurity and regulatory standards. You will oversee a team that delivers exceptional performance, promote collaboration across departments, and integrate secure-by-design principles from product conception to post-market phases. Your leadership will be pivotal in reducing risk, fortifying product robustness, and aligning security endeavours with BD’s corporate targets and customer expectations.

Main responsibilities will include:

• Lead and cultivate a top-performing Product Security team that backs various products within the business unit.

• Boost team efficiency to minimize security risk and strengthen product resilience within the portfolio, while ensuring alignment with BD’s cybersecurity strategy and regulatory standards.

• Nurture a culture of answerability, ingenuity, and continual advancement to drive tangible outcomes.

• Foster risk reduction and elevate security measures within the product portfolio by incorporating secure-by-design principles, threat modeling, and proactive vulnerability management.

• Collaborate with R&D, Quality, Regulatory, and IT teams across functions to embed security throughout the product lifecycle—from inception to post-market.

• Translate cybersecurity strategy into practical plans, aligning team efforts with BD’s enterprise security objectives, regulatory demands, and customer expectations.

• Track and report security status, using measurements and benchmarks to showcase progress, identify weaknesses, and inform decision-making.

• Instruct engineering teams on comprehending security requirements and identifying practical solutions for incorporating them into new and existing products.

• Deploy software security solutions and plan/develop products following recognized industry norms for medical device security, encompassing encryption, disaster recovery, authentication, audit logging, hardening measures, patch management, and vulnerability monitoring.

• Conduct product security risk evaluations, hazard assessments, and offer guidance on vulnerability remediation to software engineers in product development, both on-site and off-site.

• Assist in the Product Security Documentation process, including: Offering standardised Product Security documentation, Employing document management systems (SAP, DocuSign, SharePoint), Coordinate and assist in the document review and approval process and Ensure that all tasks are completed promptly and meet the necessary quality standards

• Facilitate technical design appraisals and code examinations. Supply clear, actionable recommendations to project team members.

• Support product development teams in the creation of Incident and Vulnerability Management Plans and Product Security White Papers.

• Contribute to teams handling product security incidents.

• Collaborate with other technical departments like the Penetration Testing Team, Systems, Hardware Engineering, Quality, and technical services.

• Ensure compliance with BD development policies and software quality procedures.

About you

• BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or other related engineering fields or equivalent work experience required

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in IT-Security architecture, secure software development, systems & architecture concepts, and designs.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes:

• Experience leading and managing a team.

• Working experience with various encryption algorithms and PKI solutions.

• Understanding of security issues and solutions for embedded devices.

• Experience with Dynamic and static code analysis tools.

• Proficient knowledge of networking and associated security elements and prevalent threats.

• Demonstrated understanding of developing in a regulated environment and adhering to a quality management system.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills are essential.

• Demonstrated positive work ethic with a strong commitment to achieving project goals.

• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office applications and tools.

Click on apply if this sounds like you!

At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. Remote or field-based positions will have different workplace arrangements which will be indicated in the job posting.

Becton, Dickinson and Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We evaluate applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, marital or domestic or civil union status, familial status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, disability, military eligibility or veteran status, and other legally-protected characteristics.

To learn more about BD visit: https://bd.com/careers

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Primary Work Location

IRL Limerick - Castletroy

Additional Locations

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At BD, we are strongly committed to investing in our associates—their well-being and development, and in providing rewards and recognition opportunities that promote a performance-based culture. We demonstrate this commitment by offering a valuable, competitive package of compensation and benefits programs which you can learn more about on our Careers Site under Our Commitment to You.

Salary or hourly rate ranges have been implemented to reward associates fairly and competitively, as well as to support recognition of associates’ progress, ranging from entry level to experts in their field, and talent mobility. There are many factors, such as location, that contribute to the range displayed. 

The salary or hourly rate offered to a successful candidate is determined by their experience, education, and skills, as well as the labor laws and Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) requirements applicable to the work location.

Salary Range Information

€73,500.00 - €125,000.00 EUR Annual