HSBC · 6 hours ago
Global Head of Cryptography
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/ExecutiveHSBC is a leading global bank committed to opening up a world of opportunity. They are seeking a Cybersecurity leader to serve as the Global Head of Cryptographic Services, responsible for shaping the long-term strategy and ensuring the effective delivery of Cryptography across the organization.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Define and maintain our global strategy for Cryptography, supported by engineers, architects and multiple Control Owners, enabling business success, meeting regulatory expectation and best practise, whilst responding to current and likely threat actor evolution. Includes advancing pattern maturity, HSM-as-a-Service, CBoM, data analytics, modernising our estate and embracing the post-quantum future
Own the investment roadmap for Cryptography and its successful delivery across multiple partners. Ensure the transparent prioritisation of a common backlog to drive risk reduction, simplification and wider strategic needs. Ensure risk-risk trade-offs are managed, particularly risk mitigation and operational needs
Empower HSBC to successfully navigate cyber risk with innovative, responsive and frictionless technologies and services, both those delivered in-house and from external partners. Foster and empower a culture of innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement
Form close partnerships with engineering teams: as design partners – for how capabilities will be implemented, at times in novel ways; as customers – understanding their needs as they consume cryptographic services or implement mandates, and as delivery partners – prioritising change within the Cryptography Engineering team, and to drive bank-wide adoption of uplifts. Partner with external technology providers and security specialists to integrate best practice and leverage or build cutting-edge tooling
Operate and mature a consistent and high quality centralised cryptographic operations service, and in partnership with the service delivery team similarly deliver am enabling business consulting service
Ensure Cryptography is overseen end-to-end, robustly and throughout the organisation: from software development, federated operation through to the protocol demise. Drive a data-centric approach to observability and assessment, wherever possible supported by automation, measures and analytics
Ensure regulatory and risk management outcomes are being maintained or robustly managed. Ownership of High-Risk Audit, Regulator and self-identified issues. Ownership of the capability budget, balancing run and change investment. As a senior leader, contribute to and champion change across both Cybersecurity and Technology, occasionally outside of your primary remit
Lead, manage, invest in, recruit and inspire a team of highly skilled and performant SMEs across the globe. A culture driven by empowerment, experimentation, learning, partnership and delivery. A place where colleagues thrive, solving meaningful problems that keep the bank and its customers safe
Qualification
Required
Experience within fast-moving, complex and demanding corporate environments and able to provide appropriate direction to the team whilst dealing with ambiguity and change
Ability to engage with and influence senior peers and leadership
Managing, developing and retaining high-performing individuals in different geographies, often remotely
Proven ability to collaborate across industry, academia and government to solve complex problems
Ability to prepare concise presentations, reports and updates for senior management
Expert knowledge of Cryptography including PKI, key management, algorithms, protocols, and attacks
Robust understanding of common industry cyber security frameworks, standards, and methodologies, including PCI DSS, FFIEC guidelines, CIS and NIST standards
Strong analytical skills to identify and resolve complex problems, often with risk-risk trade-offs
Knowledge and exposure of the application of Risk and Control Management and associated frameworks, preferably from a multi-market institution
Ability to articulate technical threats, scenarios, controls and risks to both technical and business stakeholders
Benefits
Tailored professional development opportunities
Competitive pay and benefits package
Robust Wellness Hub
Industry-leading volunteerism policy
Generous matching gift program
Comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives
Employee Resource Groups
Company
HSBC
HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a range of services such as investment banking and asset management.
Founded in 1865
10001+ employees
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