Cloud Cyber Security Solutions & Advisory – VP

Overview

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

This role is for a member of the CISO of America’s team and will provide collaboration and support within the team to ensure to that applications have the appropriate level of controls defined in response to the established inherent risk profile CIA. This role is pivotal in defining security controls before application design begins, ensuring applications are secure by control design and compliant with regulatory mandates such as FFIEC, SOX, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, CRI, and industry best practices (OWASP).

The ideal candidate will proactively challenge architectural assumptions, interpret existing solution designs, and ensure that holistic, risk-informed controls are embedded across the application lifecycle. This role bridges the gap between information security risk governance and security architecture.

• Control Specification & Design Enablement
• Define comprehensive, cloud-aware security controls for applications prior to architectural design, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk appetite and regulatory mandates.
• Develop control requirements that span IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models across major cloud providers and hybrid environments.
• Identify risks in cloud resources and collaborate with technology teams, control partners, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure controls address data confidentiality, integrity, availability, and non-repudiation, with clear delineation of responsibilities between enterprise and application teams.
• Integrate regulatory and compliance requirements into control specifications.
• Perform risk assessments on applications across development and production environments, including code reviews
• Review third-party application architectures and identify risk
• Collaborate with development, Dev Ops and App Sec teams to understand application architectures and identify potential security risks
• Create threat models for applications, review output from DAST and SAST reviews, penetration testing reports
• Participate in security governance of SDLC, design reviews and secure coding standards (OWASP)
• Utilize the MITRE ATT&CK framework to identify and mitigate threats effectively.
• Cross-train other teams on threat modeling techniques and best practices.
• Architectural Review & Risk Challenge
• Analyze existing solution architectures to validate alignment with expected control baselines.
• Identify and challenge architectural patterns that may introduce risk or fail to meet evolving threat and compliance landscapes.
• Recommend compensating controls or alternative design strategies where necessary.
• Governance & Regulatory Alignment
• Ensure all controls are traceable to business risks, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
• Collaborate with compliance, legal, and audit teams to ensure control frameworks support regulatory examinations and internal audits.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Act as a bridge between cybersecurity, cloud architecture, application development, and compliance teams.
• Lead control design workshops and cloud risk assessments during early stages of the SDLC and cloud migration initiatives.
• Continuous Improvement
• Stay current on emerging cloud threats, misconfiguration risks, and evolving…