Business Information Security Officer- AVP

State Street is seeking an Assistant Vice President, Business Information Security Officer (BISO) to provide cyber risk management oversight to lines of business and legal entities, sitting within the first line of defense.

About the role

The AVP - BISO integrates into a small team focused on providing cyber advisory services, executing a cyber book of work aligned to State Street business units, and delivering metrics and cyber-driven content that support the business’s enhanced decision-making framework. Responsibilities span multiple domains, including Information Security and Risk Management, Cyber Incident and Response Management, Cyber Controls Analysis, and Cyber Reporting.

The AVP - BISO serves as a trusted advisor and change agent, building trust through information and transparency with senior executives. They must be skilled at influencing change to lead teams to further adopt cyber controls while reducing overall residual risk to their businesses. This role requires a strong technical background and the ability to understand emerging technologies, their purpose, security requirements, and benefits to a large financial firm.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior business and technology leaders through timely data delivery to enable informed decision-making, prioritization, and risk-based trade-offs.
• Oversee and actively manage risks in line with risk appetite through continuous business unit engagement, escalating open risk items to aligned business leadership.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify information assets and assess the protection needs requirements for the entire line of business and legal entity.
• Perform cyber risk assessments at the application, platform, and system levels to identify vulnerabilities and potential threats, analyze impacts to the bank, and determine protections required via GCS standards.
• Represent the global cybersecurity organization as a member of business control committees, risk committees, and specialized forums.
• Prepare and deliver executive-ready presentations and briefings on protection-needs outcomes, threat models, and control results to mid- and senior-level leadership.
• Report significant changes in information security risk to the appropriate level of management on both a periodic and an event-driven basis.

Technical Judgment & Knowledge

Aligned to the GCS BISO cyber technical skills model, the AVP should demonstrate practitioner-level depth across at least two of the following domains and be able to answer probing questions and coach others:

• Core Technologies
• Cloud & modern platform security (Azure, AWS, or cloud principles; hybrid and multi-cloud)
• Networking and network security
• Security architecture fundamentals and control design effectiveness
• Operating systems
• Supporting Processes
• Cryptography, encryption, and key management
• Patching and vulnerability management
• Cyber resiliency, incident response, and recovery (tabletop exercises, playbooks, after-action reviews)
• Data classification and data protection
• Secure communication protocols
• Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Privileged Access concepts
• Secure SDLC, secure engineering, and DevSecOps
• Third-party & supply chain security (vendor assessments, shared responsibility models)
• Security operations & monitoring (SOC / SIEM awareness, KPIs, posture reporting)
• Emerging Technology & AI Skills
• Articulate the risks associated with Generative AI, and the differences between Generative AI, Agentic AI, and traditional Machine Learning.
• Demonstrate an understanding of model risk, frontier models, and the risk management around them.
• Risk Management
• Understand how to measure risk, discuss trade-offs, and support risk-acceptance decisions in line with risk appetite.
• Familiarity with recognized standards and frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF 2.0, NIST SP 800-53, ISO 27001).
• Understanding of issue management, triage, remediation tracking, and residual-risk scoring.

Skills

• Establish key relationships with business risk executives, third-party management, client relations, global technology services, second and third lines of defense, and internal regulatory teams.
• Translate technical risk into clear, actionable business terms for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with dashboards and data-mining tools to build cyber risk profiles.
• Demonstrates continuous learning; stays current on emerging threats, technologies, and trends, and can explain how they keep up to date.
• Knows when to admit knowledge gaps and can describe how they would go about obtaining the needed information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related technical field — or equivalent work-aligned experience.
• CISSP or CISM strongly preferred. CRISC, CISA, SSCP, CCSP, CEH, or GIAC certifications highly valued.
• Eight or more years of progressive cybersecurity and risk leadership, including governance, risk, and compliance preferably within regulated financial services.
• Technical cybersecurity background (e.g., SOC, operations, networking, engineering) preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence executives, translate technical risk into business language, and operate across audit, regulatory, and third-party risk domains.
• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills including active listening, dependability, and teamwork.

Pay

$90,000 - $157,500 Annual. The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location, the applicable range could differ.

Benefits

• Retirement savings plan (401K) with company match.
• Insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages.
• Paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans).
• Eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.