Senior Director of Information Security

The Company

U.S. Financial Technology (U.S. Fin Tech) is seeking an experienced Senior Director of Information Security to join our team of talented professionals. This is a full-time remote opportunity.

U.S. Fin Tech built and operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the world, supporting the Uniform Mortgage-Backed Security (UMBS) of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Supporting 70% of the mortgage-backed securities in the market, U.S. Fin Tech provides best-in-class single-family issuance, bond administration, disclosure, and tax services. We support a broad portfolio of products for our clients with full lifecycle management.

Our market-leading, cloud-based, end-to-end platform executes transactions on an extraordinary scale which has bolstered liquidity in the secondary mortgage market, one of the largest and most important financial markets in the world. Our unique approach to securitization combines the best minds in financial services with the know-how, flexibility, and innovation of leading technologists.

Job Information

The Senior Director of Information Security will lead the overall design of cyber security architecture, cyber security engineering and business architecture to ensure that the organization is compliant to cyber security policies both internally and externally. This position will contribute to the overall security vision and strategy. The focus will be on improving operational efficiencies and reliability within U.S. Fin Tech’s Cyber Security tools ecosystem while continuing the teams to work in an increasingly cloud native environment as we are completely cloud based.

This position will lead day‑to‑day management and execution of Cyber security architecture and engineering functions across all divisions. This position will interface with IT professionals as well as leaders of the business to assess and manage cyber risk, share the security vision, and solicit involvement in achieving higher levels of enterprise security through information sharing and collaboration. This is a successor type role for all across Info Sec's functional areas.

Key Job Functions

• Partner with leaders across the business to identify opportunities and risks and develop solutions that support U.S. Fin Tech, a SaaS company serving as the critical backbone of the US mortgage finance industry.

• Refine, design, and implement company-wide cyber security architecture and engineering in partnership with 2nd and 3rd lines of defense.

• Develop cyber security patterns to enable developers to design and build applications with appropriate security controls.

• Manage external assessment activities and synthesize information into senior level presentations.

• Serves as a subject matter expert to internal business, technology, and security teams. Proactively advises on a range of cyber risk management activities and information security industry best practices.

• Acts as an ambassador and senior technical advisor for enterprise cyber security while engaging with other senior technical leaders throughout the organization.

• Develop and refine standards in partnership with Engineering, Infrastructure, Application Development, Data.

• Maintain vigilance about current threat vectors and expertise of the ecosystem of cloud security-related tools.

• Prototype new security tools and technologies based on organizational strategy and evolving threats while looking for opportunities to optimize, consolidate and manage out tools that no longer meet company needs.

• Engage in ongoing communication with peers in the Infrastructure and Application Support groups as well as the business group to ensure understanding of security goals, to solicit feedback and foster cooperation.

• Oversee deployment, integration, and initial configuration of all new cyber security solutions and enhancements to existing information security solutions in accordance with Information security policies, standards, and operational procedures.

• Lead initiatives designed to share knowledge across cyber security, technology, and business teams. Identifies, recommends, coordinates, and delivers timely knowledge to support teams regarding technologies, processes, or tools.

• Create and maintain a set of metrics to document and measure the performance and effectiveness of the Information Security program; responsible for communicating metrics to IT Leadership Team.
• Lead the organization's identity and access management program, including identity lifecycle…