Senior Network Security Strategy Lead

Prudential Financial; Town of Newark (WI); On-site; USD 115,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

401(k) match

Pension plan

Wellness program

Education benefit

Stock purchase plan

Job summary

Prudential Financial in Wisconsin seeks a Lead Network Security Analyst to advance Zero Trust capabilities across campus, data center, cloud, and remote environments. You will drive complex analyses, develop roadmaps, and partner with engineering and security teams to reduce risk through prioritized actions.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, risk assessment, and cross‑functional influence, with accountability for architecture reviews and security modernization guidance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience in related fields.
• Advanced network security engineering, architecture, advisory, or strategy experience in a large and complex enterprise environment.
• Ability to independently structure ambiguous problems, develop analysis plans, evaluate alternatives, and deliver clear recommendations with minimal guidance.
• Ability to functionally lead complex work, mentor others, and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
• Strong business insight and the ability to balance security risk, operational feasibility, customer impact, cost, and delivery constraints.
• Experience with agile delivery or program-management methods and cross-functional execution.
• Excellent problem solving, written communication, executive presentation, facilitation, and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex current-state analysis/assessments of network security architecture, controls, processes, and technical debt across campus, data center, cloud, and remote-access environments.
• Develop strategic recommendations, target-state architectures, transition roadmaps, and prioritized risk-reduction plans for Zero Trust networking, segmentation, NAC, ZTNA, firewall, proxy, and related capabilities.
• Analyze architecture, configuration, telemetry, asset, vulnerability, and control data to identify material risks, systemic gaps, and opportunities to harden the environment.
• Functionally lead workstreams and provide technical guidance to less-experienced team members without direct people-management responsibility.
• Partner with operational and engineering teams that own the technologies to validate findings, define remediation approaches, establish milestones, and drive agreed actions to completion.
• Participate in security architecture and design reviews, documenting requirements, assumptions, risks, compensating controls, and recommended decisions.
• Contribute to reusable reference architectures, security patterns, engineering requirements, decision frameworks, and assessment methods aligned to enterprise standards.
• Communicate complex network security risks and tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders using concise, evidence-based recommendations.
• Define outcome-oriented metrics and contribute to executive reporting that demonstrates risk reduction, control maturity, roadmap progress, and technical-debt retirement.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry practices and recommend where they should influence the network security strategy.
• Be the network security subject matter expert within the ISO Infrastructure Security Team.

Skills

Network Security

Zero Trust

NAC

ZTNA

Firewall

Threat Modeling

Security Architecture

Risk Assessment

Stakeholder Influence

Team Leadership

Education

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

Tools

Check Point

Cisco

Zscaler

Job description

Prudential Financial in Wisconsin seeks a Lead Network Security Analyst to advance Zero Trust capabilities across campus, data center, cloud, and remote environments. You will drive complex analyses, develop roadmaps, and partner with engineering and security teams to reduce risk through prioritized actions.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, risk assessment, and cross‑functional influence, with accountability for architecture reviews and security modernization guidance.