Director, Information Security Officer

Director, Information Security Officer at Capital One summary:

The Director, Information Security Officer leads cybersecurity strategies and risk management efforts for strategic projects within a financial services company. This role involves collaborating with business, technology, and risk partners to secure digital platforms, manage cyber threats, and integrate security into business objectives. The position requires deep expertise in cloud security, cyber risk oversight, compliance frameworks, and team leadership.

Cybersecurity is essential to what we do at Capital One, from protecting our customers to our associates. As part of the Information Security Office, you are passionate about security and risk management. You see security as an enabler and differentiator to enable the business through innovation, not a step in the compliance process. You are pragmatic and practical in your understanding of risk and security, but also willing to know when to pull in experts and escalate.

You collaborate and innovate with other teams within Capital One to push the envelope.

As Director, Information Security Officer, yo u will lead end to end security for strategic projects for one of our lines of business . You will work with the business, technology and risk partners to achieve time sensitive goals and objectives in a secure manner with a heavy forward lean on modern software and technology architectures.

You have the ability to lead complex problem solving in partnership with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment, driving results with critical impact. You will play a leading role in delivering product security advisory services for a fast moving project within a line of business portfolio, working closely with other professionals as required. At Capital One, you will help advise on strategic initiatives, programs, and projects to create business value in a risk-based and agile manner.

You are pragmatic and practical in your understanding of security and associated risks, but also willing to know when to collaborate with experts and escalate as required. You believe in making the secure way easy and see yourself as an advocate in the value of data driven business decisions and products. You are comfortable with modern software, data analytics ecosystems, artificial intelligence, and cloud based technologies as well as associated protective methods.

Responsibilities:

• Be a leader at a premiere technology and financial services company

• Be responsible for delivery of end to end security for strategic projects, including but not limited to mergers and acquisitions

• Deliver divisional cyber strategy integration and execution, identification and management of risk for top business initiatives and technology platforms, threat and vulnerability management, incident management, supply chain cyber risk management, cyber risk oversight and reporting.

• Deliver Cyber agenda and integration of Information Security within business objectives for line of business area

• Serve as the central point of contact for your line of business technology executives into Capital One’s Cyber risk management priorities

• Educate and influence executive leadership and associates to effectively leverage security capabilities and solutions to mitigate risks and emerging threats

• Provide security expertise on prioritizing and managing information security risks and initiatives

• Escalate and manage cyber security risk

• Provide regular updates to executive leadership with your line of business on the overall information security health and risk environment

• Work with business leadership to anticipate their objectives and needs to better serve them

• Be an advocate for security, business and digital innovation. Instills a culture that works toward the highest standards in cyber (safeguard the business) while ensuring that business requirements are understood and adhered to (enabling the business).

• Plays a key leadership role within Cyber’s community of leaders, drives innovation activity as an outcome; partner extensively with other Cyber and Technology organizations to derive solutions enabling industry…