VP, CISO

Alkami is a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the United States that helps clients to transform through retail and business banking, digital account opening and loan origination, payment fraud prevention, and data analytics and engagement solutions. Alkami’s Mobile App Platform has been certified by J.D. Power for providing clients with “An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience.”

Founded in 2009, we continue to be recognized for our intentional culture and tremendous growth (Best Place to Work in Fintech; Best & Brightest to Work For Nationally; and Comparably’s Best Company Culture, Best Career Growth, Best Engineering Team, and Best Places to Work in Dallas, among others). Through our bold investments in technology and people, we empower our clients to grow confidently, adapt quickly, and build thriving digital banking communities through tailored experiences for over 19.5M users.

As a remote-first company, most of our positions can be remote in the US, except for key roles, which will be indicated in the Job Title.

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Alkami Technology is a leading provider of next-generation digital banking that builds financial technology solutions in a SaaS delivery model, the 176th fastest growing company in America on the Inc. 5000 list, and the #1 fastest growing Texas software firm.Alkami is seeking a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to develop and execute on information and cyber security strategies to protect Alkami, its employees, its financial institution clients, and their millions of end-users who utilize our hosted online banking solutions.

This executive-level manager will oversee the technology budget for security technologies and services as well as a team of security engineers and analysts who implement them. The CISO of Alkami will report to our Chief Legal Officer and be directly responsible for ensuring our company maintains a high degree of confidentiality, integrity, and availability across across the enterprise.This position requires a tactical and visionary leader with in depth knowledge of business management, the financial services industry, and comprehensive understanding of
information security technologies and threats.

An ideal candidate will be highly knowledgeable, technical, and aggressively pursue continuous improvement of Alkami’s security posture. The CISO will need to regularly educate and report to stakeholders on enterprise security risks and provide solid recommendations to mitigate them. They will be experienced with software engineering security and help steer a secure software development lifecycle. They will also be seasoned in supporting DevOps teams in public cloud
infrastructures (such as AWS or Azure) in meeting availability and flexibility needs in a secure and compliant way, to the satisfaction of Prudential Regulators.

Responsibilities & Duties

1. Mature and execute a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy that satisfies Alkami’s business needs, regulatory requirements, and security industry best practices.
2. Direct and approve the design and application of security systems.
3. Review and approve security policies and administrative, technical, and physical security controls.
4. Refine and extend vulnerability management programs, penetration testing initiatives, and key security indicator (KSI) dashboards for reporting on posture and readiness to executive stakeholders.
5. Collaborate with in-house compliance and legal experts to help maintain an enterprise risk management program.
6. Collaborate with human resources and other business units to develop effective security programs for reducing risk, increasing user awareness, and improving Alkami’s overall security posture.
8. Develop the talents and expertise of the security teams reporting to the CISO.
9. Provide leadership across the company in incident response scenarios as well as technically thorough root cause analysis for internal and external stakeholders.
10. Present to customers (both current and prospective) on the design, effectiveness and status of our security program.
11. Present to the Board of Directors on the status of our security program and highlight emerging risks posed to the business.

Requirements

● 15+ years of demonstrated experience in information security and cybersecurity techniques, processes, and procedures across a variety of domains, including risk management, software engineering, and hosted and