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Lead Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Advisor

Capital One
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Aug 2025
💰 $220,700/yr($175,800/yr$220,700/yr)

About the role

Lead Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Advisor

Cyber Governance and Risk is seeking an associate to develop into a subject matter expert lead within the Payment Card Industry (PCI) team providing consulting to the enterprise regarding the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and other applicable PCI Council standards. The associate is responsible for conducting internal assessments in partnership with information security officers, application owners, and service owners with PCI-DSS compliance tasks such as evidence preparation, evidence gathering and review, aligned to the PCI-DSS requirements. The associate provides input into the creation of hardening standards, researches security best practices and other industry security trends to use as input into the improvement of the information security program.


The ideal candidate will be a highly-motivated self-starting professional with profound understanding of PCI DSS requirements and testing methodology (version 3.2.1 and above). The candidate will have well developed communication and intrapersonal skills with a solid foundational understanding and experience in process, relationship, and program management. The candidate will also be detail-oriented, results-focused, and have a proven track record of driving tasks to completion. The candidate must be a strong team player with a demonstrated ability to work efficiently with other team members cross-functionally and across the PCI team.
 

Essential Responsibilities

  • Developing lasting partnerships with various enterprise teams, to include collaborating on compliance-by-design strategies while balancing risk, business objectives, and business impact

  • Promoting awareness and training of PCI principles, requirements, and security best practices.

  • Leading end-to-end internal assessments based on PCI DSS requirements

  • Managing team communications and visibility into status of deliverables 

  • Obtaining ISA certification within 12 months (if not current)


Basic Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification

  • At least 4 years of experience supporting or leading a Level 1 or Level 2 organization's PCI-DSS compliance effort or implementing security tools or processes covered by PCI-DSS 

  • At least 2 years of experience of direct or indirect work with public Cloud systems and on-premise infrastructure or systems

  • At least 2 years of experience developing and implementing policies, standards, and procedures for PCI or security frameworks 

  • At least 2 years of experience supporting, maintaining, and implementing security frameworks 


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • 2+ years of experience working in the financial services industry

  • PCI QSA or ISA certification

  • CISSP, GIAC, CEH, or Security+ certification

  • AWS Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect certification


At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $193,400 - $220,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical


 

Plano, TX: $175,800 - $200,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical


 

Richmond, VA: $175,800 - $200,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

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