Vice President – Security Tooling Product Line (Information Technology)

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you'll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we're building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we'll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and practiced leader to join our Identity, Security and Network Services (ISN) team, as the Vice President of our Security Tooling Product Line. You will lead the strategy and vision for the services and capabilities that your team provides by working across the Federal Reserve System to understand incoming business requirements, partnering with teams and people across multiple Reserve Banks to create the capabilities needed to ensure we can properly manage our environment against threat actors and secure our platforms. You will be expected to cross organizational boundaries and drive the changes needed to support the Federal Reserve's cloud and infrastructure transformation within your area, while maintaining a focus on ensuring all services under your direction continue to remain secure and reliable in supporting the US economy. You will partner closely with the Information Security Officers across the Federal Reserve as well as partner with teams across National IT as we work together to put security and risk policy into tools and controls that keep the Federal Reserve System safe.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in a matrixed organization and influencing without authority. They will be familiar with and able to operate in an agile and product oriented operating model that is focused on delivering outcomes which provide business value over individual components. You will act as a servant leader and ensure your team is trained, empowered, and enabled to drive many decisions on their own and to move quickly, fail fast, and deliver quality outcomes. You and your team will be accountable and responsible for modernizing and uplifting our tooling as we continue our journey to the cloud and prepare for new challenges from Generative AI, post-quantum cryptography, and other emerging areas. As part of your remit, you will be responsible for tooling across cloud compliance, cryptographic services, data loss protection, threat analytics, and other critical security tooling areas.

The Vice President reports to the Identify, Security and Network Services (ISN) Senior Vice President.

Your Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• World-Class Operations – Direct and ensure resiliency for security capabilities and services including data and database protections, SaaS and cloud posture management, and encryption and endpoint security.
• Deliver Business Value – Develop and implement strategies furthering processes, capabilities, and optimizations to security capabilities and tooling, automation and self-service, while regularly partnering with business partners and governing bodies.
• Leadership – Demonstrate experience with mentorship to foster personal and professional growth; be an active expert to help shape our future environment through strategic relationships, while ensuring the team is trained, empowered, and enabled to drive to decisions on their own and to move quickly, fail fast, and deliver quality outcomes.
• Support Decision-Making – Ensure informed risk decisions by senior executive leadership and business line executives through coordinating high impact written and verbal briefings on sensitive and complex matters.
• Agile and Adaptable – Operate in a matrixed organization and influence without authority. Thrive in an agile and product oriented operating model that is focused on delivering outcomes providing business value over individual components.

• Performance and Accountability – Anticipate trends and our needs; communicate a compelling vision for your team; articulate and align team priorities.
• Innovation – Integrate diverse views to facilitate breakthroughs; inspire commitment to changes through relevant stories; challenge others to think differently and creatively.
• Role model and Talent Champion Coach – Develop talent across the organization and hold management accountable for feedback and mentoring to team members; advocates for personal development. Facilitate open deliberation with honest and diverse ideas; influences through listening; promote others to grow their reputation and visibility through their contributions.

• Expert in modern security technology – Exceptional grasp of security analytics; development and automation; cloud capabilities, security technology integration and architecture.

Your Leadership Competencies – Seeking candidates exhibiting strong acumen in the following areas:

• Thinking Strategically - Thinks about issues and navigates relationships to advance the Bank's goals; Leads with the future in mind.
• Leading Inclusively - Leverages diverse talents, positively impacts culture and engagement, and encourages development for all employees.
• Growing Intentionally - Demonstrates self-awareness and continuous development by seeking out feedback and modifying behavior.

Your Background:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration, or related field is required.
• 10+ years of work experience including prior management experience.
• Track record of strong leadership of a team of highly skilled professionals.
• Excellent communication skills, including a demonstrated ability to build and manage strong relationships and develop and drive product strategy/roadmap in a shared services environment.

• Expertise in relationship management and an exemplary ability to manage stakeholder expectations through clear and transparent communications.
• Significant experience in setting strategic direction, being accountable for and delivering strategic results and business value, aligning programs with the organization's strategic direction, and focusing on continuous improvement efforts within a complex IT organization.
• Strong domain knowledge of security, compliance, and cryptographic tooling and frameworks along with broad knowledge of current trends in cloud, automation, and self-service capabilities.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain Top Secret level security clearance.

What We Offer: 

• The expected starting salary range for this position is between $308,700 and $365,100 annually in addition to annual performance-based discretionary bonuses. Final salary and offer will be determined based on the applicant's relevant experience, skills, internal equity, and alignment with geographic and other market data.
• The Chicago Fed offers benefits to support overall health and financial security. Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.chicagofed.org/careers/thebenefits 
• A continuous learning environment with opportunities to gain new skills and grow your career. 

Additional Requirements: 

• Travel: up to 25% of the time
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and could take approximately two months to be completed. The screening covers areas such as education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reaches out to your references and people that know you well.
• As a condition of employment, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the recruiter for this posting, who can provide you contact information for our ethics official if necessary.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. 

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

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