Staff Infosec - Platform Engineer / Product Owner

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GENERAL FUNCTION:

The Lead Information Security Engineer (ISE) is responsible and accountable for risk by openly exchanging ideas and opinions, elevating concerns, and personally following policies and procedures as defined. Accountable for always doing the right thing for customers and colleagues, and ensures that actions and behaviors drive a positive customer experience. While operating within the Bank's risk appetite, achieves results by consistently identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, and reporting risks of all types.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Product Ownership & Agile Leadership

• Serve as Product Owner for one or more InfoSec tools

• Own and manage the product backlog, prioritizing features and enhancements based on business and security needs.

• Translate business and security requirements into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.

• In partnership with the team's agilist, lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.

• Mentor more junior members of the team

Application Ownership

• Act as the IT Application Owner for assigned InfoSec platforms, ensuring operational stability, scalability, and compliance.

• Coordinate with Operations team to oversee lifecycle management, upgrades, patching, documentation, monitoring, and configuration standards.

• Support the Bank's operational information security responsibilities, including the development maintenance of standards, procedures, and guidelines necessary to satisfy the Information Security department's network operations.

• Assist in conducting risk assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of existing controls and determine the impact of proposed changes to business processes, applications and systems.

• Provide technical support to internal and external auditors, as required, to respond to audits and examinations of the Bank's control environment.

Strategic Engineering Support

• Provide engineering support for Zero Trust architecture rollout, including identity, access, segmentation, and telemetry components.

• Support efforts in Enterprise Certificate Management, including PKI integration, automation, and governance.

• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to embed security tooling into broader enterprise initiatives.

• Ensure alignment with regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO, SOC2) and internal security policies.

• Seek and maintain knowledge (cross/up skill) of current and upcoming IT security technologies.

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES REQUIRED:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experience. Master's degree a plus.

• At least 6 years of related experience, including at least 4 years in a hands-on information security development role.

• Industry Standard Certifications such as, but not limited to: CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network +, CompTIA Security +, ISC2 CISSP, and EWS are preferred.

• Commitment to continuous learning and upskilling in IT security technologies

• Must be able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing to management, business and IT sponsors, and technical resources in language that is appropriate for each group.

• Experience leading Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives).

• Experience with Information Security tools (ownership, backlog management, enhancements).

• Familiarity with Zero Trust architecture (identity, access, segmentation, telemetry).

• Knowledge of Enterprise Certificate Management (PKI integration, automation, governance).

• Understanding of IT application ownership (lifecycle management, upgrades, patching, monitoring).

• Ability to conduct risk assessments and evaluate security controls.

• Experience supporting audits and examinations (internal/external)

• Ability to mentor junior team members.

• Strong cross-functional collaboration with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams.

• Financial industry experience is a plus.

• Experience with Lean Six