What You'll Do:
 

As a member of the Security Architecture team you will be responsible for the architecture of the security controls environment in the cloud and on-premise and ensuring that security requirements are met in OCC systems design and implementation. This position is expected to lead and problem solve in all phases of the security architecture lifecycle, including contributions to departmental strategy.  Position will require cross-department collaboration with Security Services teams and security partners in Information Technology and Project Management.

Secondary responsibilities include defining requirements and scope and objectives for application security, control validation and adversarial testing. Tertiary responsibilities include contribution to automation, streamlining, and modernization of security operational and oversight processes.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

• Key contributor to strategy for security technological and oversight modernization; work with IT architecture and implement functions to ensure that systems conform to security requirements

• Conduct architectural Security control validation testing processes

• Define security requirements aligned with current threat intelligence and industry standards such as the NIST CSF, CSA, OWASP

• Reviewing current system security measures and recommending and implementing enhancements.

• Conduct market surveys of security tooling to identify potential replacements or upgrades to enhance OCC’s security and resilience

• Partnering with IT department to design and implement effective embedded security capabilities

• Drive the maturation and automation of Security information dissemination and oversight processes

• Support Cyber Risk in assessing the effectiveness of planned remediations for identified security defects

• Produce reporting and documentation artifacts for leadership and staff relating to security related activities

• Ensure alignment of security controls and supporting services and related policies and procedures with applicable regulations and industry standard best practices

• Assists Security Analysts, transferring technical and risk management knowledge

• Assist in project planning, program development, and process formalization.

• Perform other duties as assigned

Supervisory Responsibilities

• As a senior member of the department, candidate will provide mentoring and advice to junior members of the Security Services team.

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.

• Excellent oral and written communication

• Analytical skills to successfully analyze, model, and present complex risk assessments and design operationally-effective controls to remediate them

• 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:

Advance experience in the following area:

• Design and specification of security control technologies such as IAM, Network Access Controls, PKI, firewalls, IPS

• AWS and cloud-native tools desired; training provided as needed.

• Standards such as COBIT, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF, ISO etc.

• Security risk management principles and practices.

• Regulatory frameworks and requirements relevant to OCC such as, Reg SCI, CFTC 99.18, etc..

Certifications

• Professional security certifications a plus (i.e., AWS, CSA, GIAC, CISSP, CISA, CISM, CRISC)

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Statistics & Quantitative Modeling, Mathematics a plus or the equivalent combination of education and/or relevant experience.

• 5-7 years hands-on Information Security architecture or engineering

• Previous work in Compliance, Audit, Risk Management, or Security

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