Cloud Security Director

About TemenosTemenos powers a world of banking that creates opportunities for billions of people and businesses everywhere. We have been doing this for over 30 years througt the pioneering spirit of our Temenosians who are passionate about making banking better, together.We serve over 3000 clients from the largest to challengers and community banks in 150+ countries. We collaborate with clients to build new banking services and state-of-the-art customer experiences on our open banking platform, helping them operate more sustainably.At Temenos, we have an open-minded and inclusive culture, where everyone has the power to create their own destiny and make a positive contribution to the world of banking and society.THE ROLEBased in the United States of America, the Director of Cloud Security (Americas) will report to the Global Director of Cloud Security and be a key member of the Temenos Security leadership team. The incumbent will drive overall regional security strategy and implementation of our Temenos Cloud Security Framework and Cloud Security Programmes across our SaaS services for public and private cloud within the region (North and South America). You will be the ambassador for Cloud Security within the region, leading client meetings and prospective engagements, as well as leading a regional team of talented Cloud Security Engineers.Working closely with Temenos Cloud Americas team, you will provide high quality cloud security services for our SaaS banking clients, collaborating with colleagues across Cloud Operations, SaaS Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Product, Services, Sales, Legal, Governance, Risk, and Compliance, Information Security and our Cyber Defence Centre. You will be responsible for increasing the maturity of both the regional and global cloud security functions, exploiting opportunities to innovate and further advancing our technical capabilities, tools and people.We are an ambitious and high performing group of security practitioners with an exciting roadmap of work ahead of us. We need someone whose vision and drive will enhance and accelerate the team’s growth and help guide us towards a north star of class-leading, industry excellence.OPPORTUNITES• You will assume overall leadership and development of the NSA Regional Cloud Security Strategy and Roadmap, working towards global consistency aligned to our global security standards including tooling, governance, policies and processes.• You will represent the security organisation at the regional NSA Cloud Board, updating senior stakeholders/executives on strategy, workstreams, projects and client updates.• You will develop, enhancement and implement our regional security capabilities, aligned to the Cloud Security Programme for Temenos SaaS across Public and Private cloud estates.• You will understand the security needs of our clients and prospects and their stakeholders and regulators, using this knowledge to help shape and adapt our security roadmap.• You will collaborate with SaaS Engineering, Cloud Architecture, Information and Product security to develop and maintain the technical security architecture for Temenos SaaS.• You will play a key role in governing the development of new architectures and client solutions.• You will design, implement, and report regional security KPI’s, ensuring transparency and breadth of coverage in reporting as our business needs evolve, striving for continuous improvement.• You will represent Temenos as an ambassador and SME with clients and prospects as required to describe our Cloud Security controls, processes, and capabilities.• You will maintain cutting edge knowledge of the threats to Public Cloud hosted technology solutions, particularly in the Fintech space.• You will build relationships with stakeholders across Temenos, becoming a trusted partner to successfully embed security within the development, implementation, and operation of Temenos SaaS.Skills• You should have 12+ years of experience in information security, with recent cloud security experience.• You should have experience in developing security strategies and roadmaps with the ability to analyse and assess ambiguity, bringing logic, clarity and direction to a broad range of challenges.• You should have expert level experience with cloud security, including hands-on experience of cloud-native security solutions and tools primarily in Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services.• You should have experience managing a security team, ability to coach, develop and mentor team members.• You should have demonstrated programme/project management experience with a strong delivery focus.• You should have understanding of business drivers, integrating requirements into overall security design.• You should have excellent communication skills, relationship building, stakeholder influencer, with an ability to communicate technical challenges to non-technical persons.• You should have the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, manage client expectations effectively and drive results using a proactive approach towards identifying and resolving issues.• You should have direct working knowledge and experience with industry security standards (CCM, NIST, ISO, PCI, CIS, etc.)• You should have certification in Information/Cloud Security, for example CCSP, CCSK, CISSP, CISA etc.• You should have ability to navigate operational security issues, applying due rigour and security best practice to arrive at sensible recommendations and follow through to conclusion.• You should have awareness of various regional regulatory requirements (especially FFIEC, OCC, etc).• You should have client facing experience in any sector highly regarded.• You should have previous experience of Incident Response in a Public Cloud environment.Desirable (knowledge/experience):• You should have on-prem security infrastructure experience, particularly Active Directory environments.• You should have hands on experience in threat modelling security infrastructure and applications.• You should have bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline.• You should have experience in the banking, financial services, or security/intelligence industry. You should have knowledge and experience in core and digital banking services, markets, and products.• You should have regulatory compliance knowledge and experience (GDPR, FFIEC, FINMA etc)Ideal Candidate profile:• You should be self-motivated with a high level of initiative• You should be able to work independently with little guidance or oversight.• You should have strong organisation and planning skills.• You should act with urgency and can prioritise effectively.• You should have a “can do” and positive attitude.• You should be able to react proactively to changing business demands.• You should remain calm under pressure and able to deal with ambiguity.• You should collaborateand work well in a team context.• You should be adaptative to different working styles and cultures working within a global team.VALUES• Care about client and team satisfaction.• Commit to reacting proactively to changing business demands.• Collaborate with other departments; able to explain AWS concepts to different audiences in appropriate business, and technical terms.• Challenge the pressure and able to deal with ambiguity.Global Benefits• Maternity leave : Transition back with 3 days per week in the first month and 4 days per week in the second month• Civil Partnership : 1 week of paid leave if you're getting married. This covers marriages and civil partnerships, including same sex/civil partnership• Family care : 4 weeks of paid family care leave• Recharge days: 4 days per year to use when you need to physically or mentally needed to recharge• Study leave: 2 weeks of paid leave each year for study or personal developmentTemenos is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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