AVP Information Security — Strategic Security Partner

State Street; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking an Information Security Officer to lead security initiatives across business units. You will partner with IT and business leaders to embed security into strategic plans, champion security mandates, and align with Global Cyber Security to reduce risk.

The role requires 5+ years in information security, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate complex security concepts to diverse audiences. Strong collaboration and governance skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in information security, preferably in a cyber risk management capacity.
• Project management experience leading small and medium sized teams to successful completion.
• Modern technical understanding and experience developing and implementing innovated techniques and solutions to delivering cost efficient security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Actively promote and deliver on the ISO program and its mission.
• Collaborate with Global Cyber Security and business partner teams to ensure alignment addressing security policies in their products and services.
• Create visibility through effective metrics and reporting.
• Participate actively in decision making with engagement management and seek to understand the broader impact of current decisions.
• Create and deliver effective presentations as a means for communicating project and deliverable progress.
• Build and nurture positive working relationships with clients with the intention to exceed client expectations.
• Ability to give presentations at all levels and diverse audiences.
• Work cross-functionally with team members to support and enhance collaborative environment.
• Positioning security within the business with the ability to communicate in non-technical terminology.
• Manage the trade-offs required to manage the different levels of risk tolerance and risk exposure across the organization and balance this with risk investments.
• Partner with BU Leadership to identify, evaluate, and address cyber security risks.
• Ensures and monitors security compliance with industry and government rules and regulations.
• Coordinates with technology and business groups to assess, implement, and monitor IT-related security risks.
• An ability to communicate complex and technical issues to diverse audiences, orally and in writing, in an easily-understood, authoritative, and actionable manner
• Report security performance against established security metrics.
• Promote information security awareness program to ensure staff members across the organization understand the trade-off between risk and return.
• Understands “voice of the customer” and develops mechanisms to proactively sense adoption and usage patterns by end users so that policy can align with need.

Skills

Information security

Cyber risk management

Project management

Security governance

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

CISSP / CRISC / CISM (preferred)

Tools

Firewall

VPN

Encryption

Job description

State Street is seeking an Information Security Officer to lead security initiatives across business units. You will partner with IT and business leaders to embed security into strategic plans, champion security mandates, and align with Global Cyber Security to reduce risk.

The role requires 5+ years in information security, strong leadership, and the ability to communicate complex security concepts to diverse audiences. Strong collaboration and governance skills are essential.