Data Security Architect, Security Engineer

Location: New York, NY
Salary: 200k – 225k base; 275k – 325k TC

Job Description

Currently seeking an Associate Vice President of Cybersecurity Engineering to join the Cybersecurity team in our New York office. The IT group consists of over 280 team members globally and is responsible for the firm’s technology landscape. The Cybersecurity team within IT oversees and manages our global information security governance, controls engineering, and operations.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about data and information security, architecting and engineering solutions to security challenges, and dealing with the latest threats. This position will require program build and thought leadership in enterprise data security, as well as hands-on experience engineering innovative solutions in the cybersecurity control space. The candidate must interact with various IT functions to properly design solutions that balance business enablement with security.  This role will work closely with other members of the Cybersecurity and Information Technology teams, as well as with stakeholders across the business.

Primary functions and essential responsibilities

• Architect and lead a data security program, with engineering and implementation support from others on the cybersecurity engineering team.
• Design, build, and maintain a secure environment that optimally enables our business needs while reducing risk and ensuring compliance with industry and regulatory standards.
• Investigate environment to understand business needs and technical constraints
• Document data and technical security control objective, design, implementation, and maintenance
• Recommend iterative improvements to environment and processes
• Deliver projects on time and within budget

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical subject (e.g., Computer Science or Information Technology); or equivalent professional experience

Experience Required: 

• 10+ years of professional experience working directly with enterprise cybersecurity teams; preferred experience working with teams focused on meeting regulatory obligations in financial services sector
• Professional experience designing and building a technical program, ideally in data security
• Record of direct responsibility for delivering cybersecurity controls to enable business processes
• Record of working collaboratively with other engineers to deliver against a strategic vision
• Professional experience creating automations (e.g., PowerShell scripts) to facilitate responsibilities
• Professional experience with data security platforms and tools

General Requirements:

• Strong communicator; able to translate business requirements into technical controls and explain the control lifecycle verbally and through documentation to a non-technical audience
• Thought leadership; able to contribute meaningfully to a strategic program vision and own the program that delivers against that vision
• Team player; able to give and receive constructive feedback as part of team collaboration
• Self-starter; able to identify impactful work and execute with minimal supervision
• Timely; delivers work before deadline without micromanagement
• Adaptable; gets focused and delivers when faced with uncertainty or unexpected situations
• Interest in cybersecurity and data security; continually learning about the practice of cybersecurity