Director, Cloud Security

Requisition ID: 213199

 Salary Range: 180,000.00 - 301,500.00 

Please note that the Salary Range shown is a guideline only. Salary offered may vary based on factors, including, but not limited to, the successful candidate’s relevant knowledge, skills, and experience.

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Global Banking and Markets 

Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank’s strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world. 

Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.  

Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries!  We work together to drive ambition for every future! 

Purpose

Leads and oversees Cloud Securitywithin Global Risk Management (GRM) globally ensuring business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed and delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, procedures with an understanding of industry frameworks/regulations/standards like CSA STAR, ISO, NIST, OWASP, OSFI etc in scope of cloud security. Leads a second line of defense team to oversee and monitor cloud security, architecture and design with a focus on data risk management programs (i.e data protection). The role will partner closely with cross functional teams in the Bank including data risk management, security, devOps, infrastructure, network and technology teams to evolve foundational and transformational security and data risk management strategy for cloud across the enterprise.
 

What You’ll Do 

• Leads and drives a customer focused culture throughout their team to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.

• Drives security and compliance of the Bank’s cloud environments, while also providing strategic guidance and implementation of a comprehensive second line of defense over key components in cloud , including security, data protection, architecture (both technical and data) cloud.

• Partners with key stakeholders to oversee and monitor enterprise aligned cloud strategic framework as well as assess design and provide architectural advice on how to securely develop and build applications and supporting infrastructure.

• Develop programs to enable the identification of cloud cyber security and IT risks, by providing compliance and oversight in the form of frameworks, policies, tools, and techniques to support risk and compliance management.

• Challenge the creation of secure reference architectures, frameworks, policies and patterns for the security aspects of the SDLC including application, mobile, infrastructure, DevOps, cloud, and CI/CD pipelines. Challenge scalable Cloud Security architectural patterns and templates that supports enhancing Cloud Security posture through tooling, automation, and other means.

• Governance of cloud security practices at Scotiabank to enable cloud acceleration in a secure manner. Assess security controls, requirements, architecture and tooling to manage the security posture and secure workloads to support Bank’s cloud migration.

• Support a continuous evolving holistic cloud security strategy covering the various cloud deployment models – SaaS, PaaS and IaaS.

• Monitor and report on the effectiveness of security controls and make recommendations for improvement.

• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.

• Creates an environment in which their team pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

• Builds a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and, managing succession and development planning for the team.
   

What You’ll Bring 

• University degree, preferably in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field, and a minimum of 10 years’ experience in increasingly senior Information Security roles in a complex, global organization.

• 3+ years of experience developing, implementing and maintaining security solutions in public cloud like GCP, Azure or AWS. Extensive understanding of cloud infrastructure and services.

• Experience leveraging CI/CD deployment methodologies and infrastructure as code (IaC) Financial services and, specifically, banking experience is mandatory.

• Experienced in driving cross functional senior executive steering committees with a global presence.

• Experienced in develop and manage multi-million business cases for strategic initiatives.

• Expertise in product/application security architecture, application security, cloud SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solutions.

• Understanding of application and product architectures, programming languages, web application stacks, and SDLC pipelines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate security objectives and concepts to technology and business teams to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to lead technical teams in a highly complex and matrixed organization. Ability to lead through influence, excellence and example is essential to success.

• Strong leadership and collaboration skills. Excellent oral and written communication, ability to present confidently to senior executives, attention to detail and strong planning and management ability.

• Deep and broad knowledge of enterprise, cloud, and security technologies is expected. Specific strong knowledge and experience with common hosting, storage, and networking technologies is required.

• Experience with Workload Protection and Posture Management products an asset. Experience with and knowledge of formal project management methodologies is desired.

• English fluency required and Spanish preferred.
   

Interested? 

If your experience is closely related but doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification, we do encourage you to apply - you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank! 

At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture. 

What's in it for you?

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work – and life, every day. With a focus on holistic well-being, our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family, financial, physical, mental, and social health needs. 
 

Location(s):  United States : New York : New York City

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.