Wealth Management-Dallas-Vice President-Security Engineering

Key Responsibilities

• Closely collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, Program Management, and Dev Ops teams.
• Ensure security of applications (Cloud/Web/API/Mobile) managed by Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) in conjunction with centralized security teams.
• Act as a security advisor to architects, developers, analysts and others to ensure confidentiality, integrity, resiliency, and privacy are designed into the platform.
• Partner with business units to understand requirements, design proposals, and evaluate architectural flaws for various on-prem/cloud architectures.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing key controls, identify gaps, and recommend improvements to mitigate risks and enhance firm’s security posture.
• Supervise, coach, and develop a small team of application security specialists.
• Drive adoption of embedded application security controls as part of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in Agile methodology, including automated tools.
• Perform secure code reviews and facilitate or conduct penetration testing.
• Aid in the implementation of security-related product features such as authentication, cryptography, authorization, service integration, etc.
• Develop, maintain, and improve Technology Risk Program reflecting new emerging risks.
• Enable the business to meet security requirements by design.

Skills And Experience Required

• 6+ years' experience in secure architecture design, application security, and risk analysis techniques or related fields.
• Energetic, self-directed, and self-motivated, able to build and sustain long-term relationships with colleagues.
• Experience managing multiple tasks and using sound judgment when managing risks, prioritizing, and escalating.
• Ability to work with deeply technical engineers, identify gaps that need addressing, and hold them to account.
• Security testing methodologies, tools, and techniques - understanding of common application security vulnerabilities and controls to remediate.
• Expert knowledge of application security best practices including OWASP and CWE and cloud related concepts.
• Hands-on software development and/or application Penetration Testing experience in complex environments (advantage).
• Strong desire to learn and contribute solutions and ideas to a broad team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced in Financial Services/Fintech.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Security, or a related technical field.
• Experience with leveraging AI/ML to solve security problems and scale operations.
• Knowledge of secure coding languages (e.g., Python, Java, Go).
• Cloud related experiences (CSSLP / CISSP / CCSP / OSCP a plus).