Senior Cybersecurity Engineering & Operations Lead

BOK Financial; Tulsa (OK); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

BOK Financial's cybersecurity team leads the engineering, availability, resilience, and operational effectiveness of enterprise cybersecurity platforms across internal, cloud, SaaS, data, and B2B environments. This role translates risk strategy into sustainable technical capabilities and directs complex security initiatives to protect sensitive data.

As a leader, you will manage security engineering and operations teams, collaborate with auditors and business stakeholders, and drive continuous

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Lead evaluation, deployment, integration, lifecycle management, resilience, and operational performance of enterprise cybersecurity technologies and services.
• Manage cybersecurity initiatives, balancing scope, resources, budgets, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments.
• Direct cybersecurity engineering and operations activities during security incidents, including triage, containment, remediation, recovery, escalation, and post-incident improvements.
• Partner with cybersecurity architects and technology leaders to implement detection, prevention, and resilience capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies including AI, Generative AI, and agentic AI security controls, risks, governance considerations.
• Collaborate with Audit, Compliance, Enterprise Risk Management, Legal, and business stakeholders to support examinations, sustain controls, address findings, and monitor remediation.
• Oversee cybersecurity operations, tools, vendors, managed security service providers, budgets, service roadmaps, and issue resolution efforts.
• Lead workforce planning, hiring, performance management, succession planning, mentoring, coaching, and development of a high-performing cybersecurity team.

Skills

Security leadership

Cybersecurity engineering

Threat detection

Incident response

Operational resilience

Cloud security

Identity management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

10+ years cybersecurity experience

5+ years leadership experience

Certifications (CISSP/CISM/GIAC/CCSP/CISA/CRISC) preferred

Tools

EDR/XDR

SIEM

SOAR

PAM

MFA

IGA

Encryption

Vulnerability management

Job description

BOK Financial's cybersecurity team leads the engineering, availability, resilience, and operational effectiveness of enterprise cybersecurity platforms across internal, cloud, SaaS, data, and B2B environments. This role translates risk strategy into sustainable technical capabilities and directs complex security initiatives to protect sensitive data.

As a leader, you will manage security engineering and operations teams, collaborate with auditors and business stakeholders, and drive continuous