Vice President, Technology and Engineering, Security Full Time

Knewin

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Vice President, Technology and Engineering, Security Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the function overseeing Security for Vocalink Limited, a company that enables the payments of 90% of salaries, 70% of utility bills, most ATM transactions and every cheque cleared in the UK.

The successful candidate will become part of a high functioning team, dedicated to delivering a robust, secure and resilient service to 60+million citizens every day with transactional volume of 11 billion/year and total annual transactional value in excess of GBP6 Trillion.

The Technology & Engineering, Security Vice President plays a crucial role in defining technology goals and establishing a technology strategy aligned to Vocalink’s business imperatives and industry standards and best practices.

Role
In this role, you will be responsible for:
• Overseeing Vocalink’s Security technology and Engineering function.
• Strategizing and implementing the security defences of the organisation, driving a tiered approach to balance the risk of threats proportionally; evaluating and protecting every asset including the people and processes
• Ensuring that Vocalink’s technology infgrastructure is aligned with its overall business goals and objectives
• Oversee data security, network security and other domains
• Manage strategic vendor and technology part relationship
• Managing technology projects, roadmaps, configurations and tooling
• Evaluating new technologies and ensuring technology infrastructure is scalable and secure
• In partnership with the Business Security Officer, engaging senior management in understanding cybersecurity priorities and creating leadership buy in for cyber risk management programs
• Preparing and enforcing a governance framework that thoroughly validates technologies used in the organization and ensures a security-first approach, where technologies and processes inherently less secure become obsolete within the organization
• Continually identifies tools and platforms used throughout the organization and evaluates whether the underlying maintenance and patching processes are relevant and robust against today’s cyber threats
• Drives a culture that prioritizes security as the responsibility of the whole organisation
• Sets security standard that dictate how the organisation chooses to work with or acquire tools from third parties and restricts business units from collaborating with third parties that do not meet required security and compliance requirements

All About You
• Track record of technology strategy development in a complex organization
• Expertise across a variety of security domains and products such as data security, network security.
• The commercial acumen to provide cost-effective security solutions
• Strong time management and organisational skills
• Previous exposure to Linux and/or Windows Operating Systems, coding languages, and/or Networks
• Relevant experience of working in a complex (preferably multi-national) stakeholder environment that includes complex customers and regulators.
• Ability to articulate themselves clearly and concisely to a broad range of senior and junior stakeholders, acting as a bridge as well as guide for the implementation of new capabilities.
• Strong influencing skills; organizationally savvy
• Experience working with regulators (Bank of England supervision)
• Experience of presenting and communicating at board level
• Communication – requires effective communication skills – both written and oral – to deal with large diverse customer base (internal and external)
• Problem solving – excellent analysis and deductive skills
• Customer focus – passion for excellence
• Ethics – strong personal and professional ethics
• Highly motivated and conscientious individual
• Embodies and demonstrates all of the brand values required by Vocalink and Mastercard
• Ability to motivate, inspire and lead people effectively
• Line manager and a team player – leads by example
• Strategic thinker – able to develop and communicate direction
• Commercially aware

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.