Head Cyber Defence Center

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role ResponsibilitiesCyber Defence Center team is made up of cyber security thought leaders, who are accountable for provisioning and monitoring and response, Digital Forensics, Threat Hunting and Data breach response services that play key role in improving Bank s cyber security posture by preventing, detecting and minimizing the impact of developing cyber threats.The teams collaborate and provide complementary services in order to allow efficient management and timely response to information and cyber security incidents, and therefore ensure and support the continuity and growth of Bank s business operations and meet the both internal and external stakeholders expectations across 70+ countries and territories, in which SCB operates.This position requires a strong leadership and prior management experience in operating a full-featured Cyber Defence Center using a wide variety of security tools for a large-scale global enterprise environment. This role requires a highly motivated candidate who possesses a strong leadership background and the ability to manage a diverse team of cyber security services analysts in a 24x7x365 operating model, responsible for plan, build and operations of cyber security technologies of a large-scale network.The successful candidate reports to the Global Head Cyber Defence and Threat Management.A fine balance between technical, business and leadership skills is a key to not limited to:
• Strategic planning for emerging cyber and information security risks through technologies, standards, and processes.
• Develop, implement, and manage action plans for responding to emerging threats and cyber security incidents in close collaboration with bank stakeholders.
• Manage an effective and intelligence-led Cyber Security Operations function that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This includes security monitoring, incident response, data breach response, and threat hunting.
• Enhance the incident response life cycle, security tools, SOAR playbook, IR Readiness, and daily security operations processes.
• Organizational Safety and Soundness management of change, incidents, and problems
• Stakeholder management Collaborate/partner with global business and technology stakeholders on cyber security technology deployment, ensuring defined business objectives are met.
To best perform this role the candidate will be required to stay up to date with emerging information & cyber risk landscape (including regulatory) which is a must for planning, implementing & operating controls (process & technology). The ideal candidate will be a technically experienced and innovative security professional who has the ability and experience to lead a team of security professionals and execute broad security goals within a global team. Candidates should be experienced in coaching team members at all levels (analyst, team lead, manager). Financial Management:
• Plans, monitors, reports and forecasts the finances of the Cyber Defence Center service lines (run, change and continuous improvement).
Governance:
• Jointly ensure that book of work progress continuously meets business needs, changing requirements and leads to defined goal achievement while following Bank s established processes as well as technical standards.
• Provide reporting to Global Head on the achievement of committed benefits and strategic goals.
Regulatory & Business Conduct:
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders:
• Cyber Security Services Service Heads, Service Managers
• CDC Programme Directors, Project Managers
• CDC Risk and Control function
• 2 nd line of defence
• HICS heads and business functions
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Experience with managing 24x7 Cyber Security Services - Expert
• Capabilities in project and risk management - Core
• Great communication skills with senior management - Advanced
• Extensive knowledge of IT Service Operations - Advanced
• Significant incident management experience, including post-mortem and root cause analysis - Advanced
• Strong knowledge of cyber security frameworks, information security principles, architecture - Advanced
• Demonstrated leadership and managerial abilities - Advanced
• High degree of logical, analytical, & communication skills - Advanced
• English to an excellent standard both written & oral - Advanced
• Strong ethics, loyalty and understanding of inclusiveness - Advanced
• Proven track record of working as a facilitator between Technology and Business - Advanced
• Demonstrated - New Ways of Thinking apex leadership - Core
• Demonstrated conflict resolution skills - Core
Our Ideal Candidate
• A bachelors/university degree is required; a masters degree is preferred; managerial experience is required.
• 15+ years of experience in engineering or operations related to information/cyber security.
• Preferably CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, or GCIH certifications.
• Self-motivated and results-driven with the ability to take the initiative, garner consensus, and develop and implement an effective strategy.
• Exhibits a high degree of analytical rigor in developing strategies, setting goals, and evaluating results.
• A sense of urgency when it comes to implementing programs and prioritizing; decisive, action-oriented, and pragmatic.
• Willingness to challenge and question the status quo, recommending alternative and optimal solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically.
• Organizational savvy, with strong interpersonal, collaborative, and communication skills.
• Personal presence, intellect, vitality, and determination to succeed in a high-performance environment.
• Capable of analysing and reasoning through extremely complex issues, but then seamlessly executing and implementing against a well-thought-out framework.
Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

Keyskills :
root cause analysiskey performance indicatorssecurity toolsrisk managementsenior managementsecurity servicesdigital forensicsleadership skillsstaff developmentstrategic planningservice operations