Position Overview

Job Description

Harris Williams is a global investment bank specializing in M&A and private capital advisory services. Clients worldwide rely on us to help unlock value in their business and turn ambitious goals into reality. We approach every engagement with boundless collaboration, pooling expertise and relationships across industries, service offerings, and geographies. For over 30 years, our clients have trusted us to think strategically, execute precisely, and deliver premium outcomes to help them grow.

We are ambitious in our goals and steadfast in the belief that clients deserve our very best. To achieve our highest aspiration, we invest in world-class, team-oriented individuals who are smart, driven, and principled – those who are eager to be part of something bigger than themselves. When you join Harris Williams, you are welcomed into a collegial environment where every individual has the opportunity to make an impact in a powerful and significant way. We invite you to learn more about careers at Harris Williams.

Core Competencies:

The Manager – Enterprise Security brings a seasoned, pragmatic technical and security skillset to lead the HW Security team.  This leader will be responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing and supporting a wide range of security technologies and driving capability coverage to protect the firm and our people.  

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide technical direction and subject matter expertise over a collaborative team of engineers, analysts, vendors and third-party providers (where appropriate) to manage and expand the Harris Williams security program.   

• Protect the firm, our people and our data through the design, implementation and ongoing operation of capabilities and processes to reduce cyber and physical risk.

• Partner and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, prioritization and progress in the planning and delivery of tactical efforts and strategic projects.  Perform enhancement work and support requests according to established service levels, budgets, and compliance standards.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, prioritization, innovation, and proactive problem-solving within the Security team.

• Develop and implement a comprehensive cyber and physical strategy and roadmap focused on eliminating technology and process debt, ensuring availability, incident readiness and continued functionality enhancements.

• Redefine, implement and extend IT operational standards in line with ITIL best practices.  Ensure that all relevant platforms and processes are supported with operational playbooks, checklists and schedules that are well managed and measurable.

• Define key metrics regarding security risks, capability coverage, performance and availability and prepare/deliver as part of broader KPI set reported on regular schedule.

• Manage portfolio of security technologies including their engineering, operations and ongoing usage.  Ensure security products are identified, properly utilized and have corresponding backlogs for new features and incremental improvements.  

• Lead the continued evolution and maturity of HW’s cyber readiness posture.  Ensure that appropriate and effective technical and procedural measures are in place to enable recovery and continuity from potential security incidents.  Lead response scenario tests and disaster recovery exercises. 

• Lead the HW Physical Security and Life Safety program, identifying most relevant risks to the firm and clarifying the risk management approach.  Select, onboard and operationalize an appropriate physical security partner to perform on site security, process execution and situation user support and response.

• Represent Security interests in key internal initiatives such as the HW Architecture Review Committee and as a trusted advisor in owned or cross-team projects, provide security requirements and guidance.   

• Ensure technology risk-related requirements and processes are executed timely and effectively.  Support risk and security assessments as required by parent company and / or external as