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Cybersecurity Architect

First Interstate
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 22 Jan 2025

About the role

**If you are a current FIB employee, please apply through the Career Worklet in the Employee Portal.

This position may be located at any of the First Interstate Bank offices in Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota or Wyoming.

What’s Important to You

We know your career is just one aspect of a meaningful, complex, and demanding life. That’s why we designed our compensation and benefits package to provide employees and their families with as much choice as possible.

  • Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) in addition to paid federal holidays.
  • Student debt employer repayment program.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with a 6% match.
  • The health and happiness of the places we call home matter to us. Learn a little more about what we do for the communities we serve, and why we want YOU to be a part of it.

We encourage you to apply. Reach for what you want and tell us why your work ethic and willingness to learn make you a natural fit for #TeamFirstInterstate.

SUMMARY

Plays an integral role in defining and assessing the organization's security strategy, architecture and practices at First Interstate Bank. Required to effectively translate business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security processes enabled by security technologies and services.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following: other duties may be assigned.

  • Develops security strategy plans and roadmaps based on sound enterprise architecture practices for all environments including cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
  • Develops and maintains security architecture artifacts (e.g., models, templates, standards and procedures) leveraging the Enterprise Architecture tool that can be used to understand and integrate security capabilities in projects and operations.
  • Develops standards and assist in developing practices for data encryption and tokenization in the organization, based on the organization's data classification criteria.
  • Drafts architecture security standards to be reviewed and approved by executive management and/or formally authorized by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).
  • Documents and addresses organization's information security, cybersecurity architecture, and systems configuration and security engineering requirements throughout the acquisition life cycle.
  • Performs security reviews, identifies gaps in security architecture, and develops a security risk management plan.
  • Validates IT infrastructure and other reference architectures for security best practices and recommend changes to enhance security and reduce risks, where applicable.
  • Coordinates with the Enterprise Architecture team to develop and maintain a security architecture process that enables the enterprise to develop and implement security solutions and capabilities that are clearly aligned with business, technology and threat drivers.
  • Collaborates with the IT teams to define baseline security configuration standards for operating systems (e.g., OS hardening), network segmentation, identity and access management (IAM), and cloud deployments.
  • Coordinates with the privacy officer or office to document data flows of sensitive information in the organization (e.g., PII or ePHI) and recommend controls to ensure that this data is adequately secured (e.g., encryption and tokenization).
  • Liaises with the vendor management (VM) team to conduct security assessments of existing and prospective vendors, especially those with which the organization shares intellectual property (IP), as well as regulated or other protected data for third party providers.
  • Evaluates the statements of work (SOWs) and master services agreements (MSAs) for these providers to ensure that adequate security protections are in place. Assesses the providers' audit reports for security-related deficiencies and required "user controls" and report any findings to the CISO and vendor management teams.
  • Liaises with the internal audit (IA) team to review and evaluate the design and operational effectiveness of security-related controls.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Knowledge and experience with financial regulations such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
  • Privacy Practices
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
  • Center for Internet Security (CIS) Critical Security Control
  • Other cyber security frameworks, architecture

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