Cyber Architect (SASA)

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

As a bank with a brain and a soul, Citi creates economic value that is systemically responsible and in our clients’ best interests. As a financial institution that touches every region of the world and every sector that shapes your daily life, our Enterprise Operations & Technology teams are charged with a mission that rivals any large tech company. Our technology solutions are the foundations of everything we do from keeping the bank safe, managing global resources, and providing the technical tools our workers need to be successful to designing our digital architecture and ensuring our platforms provide a first-class customer experience. We reimagine client and partner experiences to deliver excellence through secure, reliable, and efficient services.

Our commitment to diversity includes a workforce that represents the clients we serve from all walks of life, backgrounds, and origins. We foster an environment where the best people want to work. We value and demand respect for others, promote individuals based on merit, and ensure opportunities for personal development are widely available to all. Ideal candidates are innovators with well-rounded backgrounds who bring their authentic selves to work and complement our culture of delivering results with pride. If you are a problem solver who seeks passion in your work, come join us. We’ll enable growth and progress together.

A Cyber Architect (CA) is required to assess and manage technology risks and provide compliance guidance per Citi IS and application security standards and provide support to Technology Development Units in their internal and public solution implementations.  The role involves understanding business objectives, identifying potential security risks, and creating robust security frameworks to mitigate these risks.

The Citi Technology Information Security Team is responsible for managing IS risk and providing controls and compliance guidance and support to Technology Development Units by ensuring compliance with Citi IS standards, policies, and procedures. The CA will have strong technical acumen and should establish a strong foundation with secure design blueprints for general application architecture deployment, working with application managers, domain architects, Cloud security and corporate IS teams and other disciplines. You will join an elite team of some of the smartest minds in the business that have been tasked with designing and deploying security guardrails for secure deployment and adoption of public Cloud to ensure that they are highly resilient from Internet-borne threats as well as internal threat actors. You will work on some of the most cutting-edge technologies and provide value by solving real world problems that our industry as a whole is facing. You will be supporting the general Markets organization within Citi from an IS perspective, with the key stakeholders being Cloud security domain architects, application development teams, our internal vulnerability assessment teams and the IS organization as a whole.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for this role will be:

• Engage in the initial requirements definition (including analysis of threats and risks and alignment with Citi IS and Architecture standards) for internal and publicly facing applications supporting the Markets organization.
• Work with enterprise Cloud security team in design and development of security guardrails for secure deployment of applications in internal and public Cloud
• Conduct threat modeling and architecture risk analysis, for Citi hosted efforts as well as for Cloud deployment projects, to ensure security gaps are identified during the design and recommend remediation actions.
• Help to assign risk associated with threats and architecture design elements being reviewed.
• Help plan the resolution of any identified vulnerabilities/issues and help govern them for closure
• Security review of applications including responsibility for driving requirements definition and risk analysis
• Facilitate and support threat/architecture reviews and scenario analysis/red team exercises
• Provide SME support to projects and programs
• Reduce risk by analyzing the root cause of issues, their impact, and required corrective actions

Qualifications

As Cyber Security Architect, you will review our most critical applications and their technology stack from top to bottom. Therefore, we require in depth subject matter expert knowledge of application security, with thorough understanding of infrastructure and network Security.

• 10+ years of relevant experience
• Proven experience as Security Architect or Application Architect with Security knowledge is preferred
• Ideally candidate who has worked for a similar organization, with 5+ years of experience as application security consultant / penetration tester / security architect, with focus on secure deployment of Cloud strategy.
• Must have SME level knowledge of designing and implementing security guardrails for deploying applications in public Cloud environment.
• In depth understanding of public Cloud and application architectures and technologies
• Thorough understanding of industry and corporate technology standards for Information and Application Security
• Strong knowledge of software development/deployment methodologies
• Strong understanding of information security and risk analysis processes, including threat modeling.
• Industry certification such as CISSP, CCSP, and other vendor certification are highly preferred

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

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In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include, for eligible employees, discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays. For additional information regarding Citi employee benefits, please visit citibenefits.com. Available offerings may vary by jurisdiction, job level, and date of hire.

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