Lead Information Security Analyst - Data Analytics and Vulnerabilities
Wells FargoAbout the role
Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Information Security Analyst to join an exciting and fast-paced team driving the effort to protect our customers and companies most critical data. In this critical role, you will explore advanced technology to implement modernized ways of working that drive down risk and increase efficiency.
This is a hybrid role at Wells Fargo.
There is no Visa sponsorship or Visa Transfers.
The req is seated in the location posted on the req.
About this role:
This role will provide technical leadership and be an individual contributor to teams that obtain and analyze data, develop reporting for senior leadership, and conduct governance of critical vulnerabilities and deficiencies across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated experience in the design and implementation of vulnerability management or governance, risk and compliance programs. The ideal candidate will also have demonstrated experience in automated processes including advanced data analytics, visualization, dashboards and remediation monitoring. This role is one part data analytics, one part vulnerability management and one part risk management.
In this role, you will:
Provide advanced information security consultation for all aspects of information security compliance policy, risk management, and remediation
Direct information security risk assessment and research, and recommend remediation plans and strategies
Perform Governance, Risk and Compliance to identify and prioritize key risk areas, monitor remediation and escalation critical risks to senior management
Conduct user engagement on identified areas of policy non-adherence, report and advise on moderately complex remediation or mitigation plans
Design, document, test, maintain, and provide issue resolution recommendations for moderately complex security solutions related to networking, cryptography, cloud, authentication and directory services, email, internet, applications, and endpoint security
Review and correlate technical data to include scanning reports, key and certificate management reports, security logs
Analyze identified vulnerabilities, assess their potential impact, and prioritize remediation efforts based on risk levels
Contribute to the development and maintenance of security policies and procedures related to information protection, information classification, encryption and digital certificates
Develop detailed process documentation and BAU artifact generation for security controls and metrics, governance routines, escalation events, and consequence model
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of Information Security Analysis experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
4+ years in a vulnerability management or governance, risk and compliance role, identifying and prioritizing areas of policy non-adherence, report development, remediation monitoring and escalation to senior management
Strong skills in analysis of information security monitoring data from industry leading tools (e.g. Qualys, Tanium, etc.)
Strong skills in data Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) to include automation of data ingestion, data reduction, data processing, data visualization.
Knowledge of data automation through industry leading tools (MS Power Apps, Tableau, Alteryx, etc.)
Desired Qualifications:
IT Security certification (CISSP, CRISC, GIAC, Cloud, etc)
Demonstrated expertise of Governance, Risk and Compliance principles for monitoring adherence to Information Security policies
Experience with or strong conceptual understanding of data protection principles, frameworks and technologies
Knowledge of Cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or MS Azure
Documentation skills including design diagrams, process flows and content writing
Ability to plan & manage work well, high quality assurance and meet required standards & guidelines.
Should be familiar with financial institution security procedures and policies especially with data handling & protection.
Experience with Agile methodology of project delivery
Ability to communicate confidently and professionally
Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships
Strong time management skills including the ability to handle multiple deliverables concurrently
Ability to influence across all organizational levels
Advanced knowledge of cybersecurity topics and organizations
Job Expectations:
Work independently to conduct governance routines on a weekly, monthly or quarterly frequency
Proactively retrieve data, conduct accuracy
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