Lead Associate Principal, Security Assurance
OCCAbout the role
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What You’ll Do:
The Lead Associate Principal, Security Assurance is responsible for leading the scoping, planning, conducting, and reporting of various Security assessments, including collaboration with other Security teams to assess risk and requirements for new technology onboarding and PoCs, Third Party Security Assessments to support OCC’s Third Party Risk Management team, assisting with oversight of the Security Observation Risk Tracking process, and special risk assessments as requested by the CSO or DCSO. This position includes supporting Security Assurance team members in the development of these various risk assessments listed above.
Secondary responsibilities include developing and enhancing Security Assurance processes. This includes automation enhancements, the advancement of Cyber Risk practices, and updating relevant policies and procedures to reflect these changes.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.
Scoping, planning, conducting, and reporting Security assessments for internal departments and of OCC third parties and technologies
Collaborate with the Security Engineering & Technology Integration and Threat Intelligence teams to assess risk and set security requirements for new technology onboarding and PoCs
Assist with oversight of the Security Observation Risk Tracking process which includes processing security observations nominated from various sources, assessing risk ratings for observations, communicating observations to risk owners, and managing the observation lifecycle
Collaborate with Threat Intelligence to determine MITRE ATT&CK tagging for observations within the Security Observation Risk Tracking process
Participate in Security review and approval of Linux server privilege elevation, proxy exception, and firewall exception requests
Participate in Security review and approval of Risk Intake, Risk Action Plan, and Risk Acceptance records managed by the Operational Risk Management & Controls team
Research and recommend new or updated risk assessment methodologies, frameworks, and standards
Assist with other Security Assurance Program efforts including but not limited to tracking of remediation and validation of audit, compliance, and regulatory findings as needed.
Collaborate with automation and AI teams to assess opportunities for incorporating AI into team processes
Documenting process flow enhancements and working with Security Business Operations to develop and enhance Security Assurance processes.
Assist Security Analysts, transferring technical and risk management knowledge
Partnering with IT department to disseminate, train, and provide guidance against the Security requirements
Assist in project planning, program development, and process formalization.
Perform other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities:
None
Qualifications:
The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.
Effective oral and written communication, analytical, judgment and collaboration skills.
Analytical skills to successfully analyze, model, and present complex risk assessments
Ability to work independently and effectively with local and remote OCC staff, management, vendors, and consultants while exercising sound judgment
Strong understanding of information technology, risk management concepts, and analytics
Possesses critical OCC values (i.e., fact based, collaborative, credibility/trust and judgment).
Technical Skills:
Advanced understanding of information related frameworks and standards such as COBIT, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO etc.
Experience in security risk management principles and practices.
Experience in working with regulatory frameworks and requirements relevant to OCC such as, Reg SCI, CFTC 99.18, etc.
Experience working in ServiceNow, Tableau, Archer GRC, Jira, and Confluence
Education and/or Experience:
5 years hands-on Information Security experience, preferably within previous work in Compliance, Audit, Risk Management, or Security.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Statistics & Quantitative Modeling, Ma
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