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Lead Information Security Officer

Citi
Jacksonville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 21 Jul 2025
💰 $212,160/yr($141,440/yr$212,160/yr)

About the role

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.

Overview of Chief Information Security Office (CISO):

The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) is home to deeply talented colleagues that work to ensure the safety of Citi's clients', our revenue, our employees and our proprietary data. We manage information security as one end-to end program – one with a clear mandate and accountability. Our mission is a program that is fully anchored to modern control and architectural frameworks, is fully aligned with the enterprise architecture of the firm and is deeply integrated into the sectors and functions.

Overview of the Role:

We're looking for a Lead Information Security Officer to join Citi's expanding Wealth cybersecurity team and build the future of secure software.The Lead Information Security Officer will be responsible for protecting Citi's information assets by collaborating with business and technology teams to assess and mitigate risks, manage security incidents, and ensure compliance with security policies, standards, and regulations mandated by the CISO Organization. This includes driving the information security program, improving application and architecture security, providing risk guidance on projects, conducting security reviews and exercises, defining secure configurations, and overseeing security assessments across applications, infrastructure, and business processes, ensuring any non-compliant items are resolved. The officer will also contribute to technical strategy, participate in application selection, and provide security awareness training.


Responsibilities:

  • Work directly with business, functions and technology units and relevant stakeholders to facilitate/ perform Citi’s IS risk assessment and risk management processes in order to protect information assets

  • Work with business and technology management to drive the information security program and information risk management activities

  • Work with the internal Applications Development function to drive the development of strategies and plans for improving both architecture and application security

  • Provide strategic risk guidance for business and technology projects, including the evaluation and recommendation of security controls and corrective actions to mitigate or remediate risks

  • Manage security incidents and events to protect corporate IT assets, including intellectual property, regulated data and the company's reputation

  • Conduct and facilitate security reviews and table-top/red-team/scenario analysis exercises in conjunction with other Subject Matter Experts by monitoring changes in the risk profile and exposure for the application

  • Define secure configurations leveraging technical knowledge and problem solving skills in the network, database, API, Mobile and Web technology areas in accordance with the secure pr

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