Cyber Defense Analyst VP

Please note:

This role is only open to internal candidates who are actively supporting the Foundational Service Technology Organization at the time of application.

Overview of the Role:

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience.

We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride.

If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

The Cyber Defense Analyst — Services, Banking & Client is a senior-level cybersecurity role embedded within the Business, Functions and Technology (BFT) organization, responsible for sustaining a secure technology ecosystem across the Services business. This position sits at the intersection of vulnerability management, security incident response, and risk governance, requiring the practitioner to translate complex threat intelligence and operational data into actionable risk mitigation strategies.

The role demands close collaboration with CISO leadership, ISO contacts, and technology teams to maintain cybersecurity risk appetites within defined tolerances. It is well-suited for a seasoned security professional who brings deep expertise across multiple security domains and thrives in a fast-paced, compliance-driven financial services environment.

Key responsibilities:

Ensure business and technology operations remain within defined cybersecurity risk appetite tolerances through a consistent and sustainable operating model.

Enhance the current Vulnerability Threat Management (VTM) operating model in alignment with BFT Risk Governance standards, including Path-to-Appetite frameworks and reporting cadences.

Escalate vulnerability risks in a timely manner to CISO Leadership and business stakeholders, ensuring VTM risk treatment responses are recorded and tracked appropriately.

Support the Vulnerability Organization in improving the quality, accuracy, and integrity of VTM and GEM reports.

Drive Vulnerability Management Uplift Program activities to reduce risk exposure while addressing stakeholder pain points related to data quality, reporting, and false positive management.

Perform root cause analysis on Vulnerability Assessment (VA) issues and…