Regional Cyber Security Advisor, Vice President

STATE STREET CORPORATION; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

STATE STREET CORPORATION is seeking a Vice President of Cyber Security for the UK & Ireland, based in London with hybrid working. You will embed with regional business units, partner with risk, compliance, and legal teams, and drive cyber resilience through practical security improvements and executive-level influence.

The role requires strong business acumen, stakeholder judgement, and solid technical credibility across offensive security, cyber risk, and security architecture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 10–15 years in cyber security or a financial services security role.
• Relevant certifications (CISSP, CSSLP, GIAC GSSP, OSWE, SABSA).

Responsibilities

• Act as regional cyber advisor and orchestrator for cross-functional activities.
• Provide senior cyber advisory and constructive challenge to business and tech teams.
• Lead regulatory alignment activities, readiness reviews, and remediation tracking.
• Prepare clear executive updates for stakeholders and committees.
• Support client, business, and external engagements with cyber input.
• Review complex cyber issues and contribute to solution design.
• Translate security insights into risk-based remediation plans.
• Drive improvements across governance, metrics, and processes.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Security architecture

Offensive security

Cyber risk

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Security leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT/Engineering

10–15 years of cyber security/tech risk experience

Certifications: CISSP/CSSLP/GIAC GSSP/OSWE/SABSA

Tools

Security architecture tools

Cloud security

Identity and access management

Job description

Who We Are Looking For

We are looking for a Vice President of Cyber Security reporting to the Regional CISO, UK & Ireland. You will act as a senior cyber advisor embedded in the region, partnering closely with business, technology, risk, and compliance teams to ensure cyber security priorities are shaped around regional business needs, regulatory obligations, and client commitments, while still drawing on strong technical expertise to identify practical security improvements and drive change that strengthens cyber resilience. The successful candidate will bring strong business acumen and stakeholder judgement, underpinned by solid technical credibility across offensive security, cyber risk, and security solution architecture. You will be comfortable engaging regional business and legal entity leaders on their priorities, reviewing complex technology and control issues, challenging proposed approaches constructively, and translating technical risk into clear, actionable decisions for senior stakeholders.

Why This Role is Important To Us

The team you will be joining is part of the Regional CISO organization within Global Cybersecurity (GCS), a key function to the bank because it connects global cyber capabilities with regional business, regulatory, legal entity, and client priorities. This is a vital role in ensuring the region's businesses and legal entities are supported with cyber requirements and implementation guidance that reflect local regulatory expectations, client needs, and operational priorities, helping the bank remain secure in a rapidly evolving threat landscape.

What You Will Be Responsible For

In this role, you will:

• Act as the regional point of orchestration for cross-functional cyber activities, ensuring business, technology, risk, and legal entity priorities are understood, owned, prioritised, and progressed through to measurable outcomes.
• Provide senior cyber advisory and constructive challenge and support to business and technology teams, ensuring cyber security decisions support regional business objectives and legal entity requirements.
• Lead or materially contribute to regulatory alignment activities, including impact assessments, evidence reviews, responses to supervisory queries, readiness reviews, and remediation tracking for the region.
• Prepare clear briefings, papers, risk narratives, and executive updates for senior stakeholders, governance forums, legal entity committees, and Regional CISO leadership.
• Support client, business, and external engagement where specialist cyber input is required, presenting the bank's cyber posture and improvement activity in a clear and credible manner.
• Review complex cyber issues and support solution design, including findings from, vulnerability management, security architecture, and secure processes.
• Translate security insights into practical, risk-based remediation plans that reduce risk exposure for the organization.
• Drive change across the bank by identifying recurring control weaknesses, root causes, and opportunities to simplify or improve cyber processes, governance, metrics, and accountability.

What We Value

• Strong business acumen with the ability to understand regional business, regulatory, and client priorities, and to shape cyber security advice accordingly.
• Strong influencing and change leadership skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and bring business and technical teams together around executable solutions.
• Ability to convert regulatory expectations and audit findings into pragmatic implementation plans that work in a complex banking environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical risk in concise, business-relevant language.
• We are looking for a strong technical candidate with hands‑on experience who is able to translate complex technical solutions to both senior technology and business stakeholders.
• Technical cyber knowledge with the credibility to engage senior engineers, architects, offensive security specialists, risk teams, and senior business stakeholders.
• Practical offensive security awareness, including attack paths, common enterprise weaknesses, penetration testing outputs, red/purple team findings, exploitability, and risk‑based remediation.
• Security solution architecture knowledge across cloud, identity and access management, network security, application security, endpoint, data protection, third‑party connectivity, and resilience controls.
• Sound judgement, ownership mindset, and the ability to balance risk reduction, regulatory expectations, business delivery, and operational practicality.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Degree: Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Risk Management, or a related discipline preferred; equivalent industry experience will always be considered.
• Years of experience: Typically 10-15 years of experience in cyber security, technology risk, security architecture, offensive security, cyber consulting, operational resilience, or a related financial services role.
• Certifications: Relevant certification to support relevant experience such as CISSP, CSSLP, GIAC GSSP, OSWE, SABSA, SABSA and vendor specific certification.
• Knowledge of tools or technologies: Practical and demonstrable knowledge of coding, application security, security architecture.
• Role Experience: Experience in senior BISO roles at Financial Services or Critical National Infrastructure organizations is preferred but not required.
• Ability to demonstrate work in complex and advanced cyber security environments is a benefit.
• Additional language requirements: N/A.

Additional Requirements

Some travel may be required for regional stakeholder, client, industry, or regulatory engagement. The role may occasionally support urgent cyber, regulatory, or incident-related activity outside standard working hours. The candidate must be able to handle confidential and sensitive information appropriately.

Hybrid Work Requirement

Hybrid Work Requirement: London-based hybrid working arrangement, with regular presence in the London office in line with business and team requirements.

Shift Timings: UK business hours, with flexibility required to support global stakeholders and time-sensitive cyber or regulatory matters.

About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law. Read our CEO Statement

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success. We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law. Read our CEO Statement

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law. Read our CEO Statement