Senior Principal Cybersecurity Analyst, CAT

The Senior Principal Cybersecurity Analyst in FINRA CAT is responsible for leading, supporting, and promoting the development, deployment, operation, monitoring, documentation, and oversight of cybersecurity controls and processes.

Essential Job Functions:

• Manages and communicates cybersecurity threats, risks, and state of controls to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and stakeholders.

• Implements and operates security controls and automation across multiple cybersecurity subdomains. Ensures security controls are well designed, effectively implemented, and aligned with organizational policies. Designs and implements automated solutions for efficiently managing cybersecurity risk including use of state-of-the-art tools and technologies such as generative AI to optimize risk management outcomes where appropriate.

• Utilizes a variety of tools and resources to identify cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, configuration defects, and other deficiencies to determine root cause and manage remediation strategies and countermeasures.

• Establishes and executes security processes and procedures across multiple cybersecurity domains, including but not limited to access management, risk management, and audit and compliance (include as relates to NIST SP 800).

• Defines, enforces, and promotes information security policies and related governance artifacts and processes.

• Ensures compliance with applicable regulatory and contractual requirements, including maintaining the artifacts and processes necessary for NIST SP 800 compliance.

• Manages security vendor relationships; ensure vendors comply with contractual commitments. Typical examples include vendors support periodic penetration testing, red team exercises, and IV&Vs.

• Demonstrates FINRA’s values.

• Collaborates, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity.

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, cybersecurity, or technical field preferred and a minimum of eight (8) years of related experience.

• Experience in multiple cybersecurity domains appropriate to the job description, including designing, implementing, operating, monitoring, and assessing security controls for cloud-based systems such as AWS required.

• Substantial experience designing, implementing, and operating a variety of tools and resources to identify cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, configuration defects, and other deficiencies to determine root cause and manage remediation strategies and countermeasures.

• Hands-on coding experience desired, especially as applied to creating tools and automation to customize, optimize, and enhance security controls.

• Understanding of common cybersecurity vulnerabilities and attack patterns and ability to explain how they are both exploited and countered.

• Experience supporting compliance with security frameworks, especially NIST 800, desirable.

• Must demonstrate intellectual curiosity and attention to detail, with strong verbal and written communication skills

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid work environment, with defined in-person presence requirements.

• Occasional travel and extended hours may be required.

For work that is performed in CO, FL, TX, IL, PA, MA, MD, VA, Washington, DC, NY and NJ, please refer to the chart below for the salary range for the corresponding location. FINRA complies with all state and local pay transparency laws and regulations requiring the disclosure of salary ranges for the position. In addition to location, actual compensation is based on various factors, including but not limited to, the candidate’s skill set, level of experience, education, and market considerations. 

 

CO/FL/TX: Minimum Salary $111,400, Maximum Salary $202,100

IL/PA: Minimum Salary $122,800, Maximum Salary $222,400
MA/MD/VA/Washington, DC: Minimum Salary $128,000, Maximum Salary $232,500

NY/NJ: Minimum Salary $128,000, Maximum Salary $242,600

 

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To be considered for this position, please submit an application. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.

The information provided above has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work of the position. It is not a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required.

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