Work with risk and security to understand the corporate risk posture, the tech control framework and the underlying controls.
For each service basis work with the control owners and engineers to agree technical implementations of the controls, how control compliance will be logged and how defects will be reported and remediated.
Work with control owners to agree recertification schedules and work with the SMEs to re-certify each control, each year within the allotted time
Ensure all control complaint infrastructure patterns are created by engineering teams and are easy for application teams to consume; Available as either Service Now catalogue items or via IaC (Terraform) patterns depending on platform.
Run point for all audits on behalf of infrastructure engineering, responsible for coordinating with the team to gather evidence, configuration standards and other data and deliver them to audit within SLA
Keep track of all audit requests and formalize a process to provide evidence of delivery.
Develop a progressive engineering culture that fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Integrate / automate deployment and provisioning of highly available infrastructure across data centers / hybrid cloud platform to reduce overall time to market
Build / Maintain strong partnerships with IT stakeholders including Delivery Engineering, Application Development, Architecture, Security and Operations to ensure technology investment enables/drives business strategy
Anticipate business need and influence infrastructure and architecture roadmaps across product teams
Foster and drive organizational change through technology and process optimization
Evaluate, recommend and influence procurement decisions for tools and frameworks for effective delivery
Establishes a framework of repeatable / scalable processes for dynamic, centralized IT organization supporting multiple business units
Manage ongoing vendor relationships including evaluation products and services
Develop / attract / retain top talent to build and maintain a world class organization
Establish KPIs to measure organization performance and effectiveness
Requirements
10+ years of technology leadership focused on scalable, resilient infrastructure on-prem and in cloud environments.
Direct experience running an IT Risk function for a large financial institution.
Progressive leadership experience building / leading engineering teams in a large, regulated, global financial institution.
Demonstrated technology and people leadership experience in architecting / developing / transforming cloud platforms and services. (migrations & native implementations)
Proven experience with managing on-prem services, deep understanding of how to curate these in a secure manner.
Proven track record of infrastructure transformation focused on infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for end-to-end infrastructure deployment automation
Proven experience leading engineering teams using Agile software development and LEAN/DevOps/SRE principles to deliver new platforms and services
Proven experience with cloud financial management that brings overall clarity and accountability of operating IT workloads in the cloud (FinOps)
Bachelor’s/Advance degree and/or related field experience required