Data Security Project Lead, VP (C13)

About Citi:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Role:

The Data Security Project Lead is a senior level, technical position responsible for driving efforts reduce the risk in the area of data security. The overall objective of this role is to ensure the execution of Data and Information Security directives and activities in alignment with Citi's data security policy. This role will be a highly technical project manager leading project meetings, creating and updating project plans, communicating status, while tracking and escalating issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead meetings with engineering teams and stakeholders to orchestrate projects and discuss issues, risks, and progress while ensuring consistent momentum and alignment to project timelines and milestones
• Effectively report on project status to both technical and non-technical stakeholders including any risks, challenges, progress, etc.
• Generate projects plans and keep them updated across timelines based on gathered or existing requirements based on project assigned
• Develop corrective action language for Data Security gaps and ensure risk closure meets Citi requirements and industry best practices
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure technical solutions are built, deployed, and modified as necessary according to the project specifications
• Consistently recommend and implement process improvements or standardizations where applicable to address deficiencies and continuously optimize across project timelines
• Facilitate the implementation of approved tools relevant to projects
• Mitigate project risk by analyzing any issues, potential impacts to business, and required corrective actions
• Communicate changes on Data Security regulations and standards to Business and Program owners
• Speak with teams and stakeholders on different global time zones as needed

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience working on highly technical project delivery around DLP, Digital Rights Management (DRM), File Encryption, and Key Management
• Experience with Jira, MS Project, or other project management tools
• Experience or exposure to testing process and tracking on projects (i.e. UAT, Prod, Dev)
• Demonstrated ability to research and apply current information regarding the InfoSec field
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Proven influencing and relationship management skills
• Proven analytical skills

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred
• 1 or more of the following technical certifications is a big plus: CISSP, PMP, CAPM, CISM, CISA, CCSP, Security+

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