Penetration Testing Senior Manager

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

Reporting to the Head of Cyber Security Operations, you are responsible for managing Penetration Testing, Threat Modeling, and Adversary Simulation. As a senior manager, you provide strategic leadership to your team, empowering and developing first-line managers to carry out your directives. You utilize your subject matter expertise as both a people manager and a cybersecurity expert to enhance DTCC's security posture. As a senior member of Cyber Security Operations, you may be tasked with responding to cyber threats outside of normal work hours.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for the Offensive teams' day-to-day and strategic performance.
• Model appropriate behavior, attitude, and tone for your team.
• Align the team's mission with internal goals, regulatory requirements, and industry guidelines.
• Effectively delegate tasks, empower team members, and remove impediments to accomplish the mission and objectives.
• Set and achieve high-quality goals and objectives for the team and work with managers to develop comprehensive individual goals that align with team goals.
• Attract and retain high-quality team members that match the team's mission and objectives.
• Evaluate, train, mentor, and develop your team members to make them as successful as possible at DTCC.
• Apply metrics, feedback from team leaders, feedback from collaborators, threat intelligence, and industry guidelines to continuously evaluate and improve security posture.
• Develop key metrics and communicate progress to collaborators, senior leadership, regulators, and auditors.
• Work with leaders throughout the company to support Cyber Security & Resiliency and continuously improve security posture at the firm.
• Identify and proactively partner with key collaborators to understand needs and implement appropriate solutions.
• Create messaging, socialize team programs, represent Cyber Security Operations, and evangelize security at DTCC.
• Regularly travel to conferences, training, and other DTCC offices (up to 30%).

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Have at least six years previous hands-on technical experience in cyber security penetration testing, adversary simulation, and/or other relevant technical cyber security experience and at least three years previous experience as a people manager.
• Have experience managing multiple high-profile and time-sensitive initiatives simultaneously.
• Have a balance between people leadership and up-to-date relevant technical knowledge.
• Demonstrate adaptability, a growth mindset, and superior collaboration skills.
• Demonstrate effective tactical leadership of teams to accomplish technical tasks and projects.
• Demonstrate effective strategic leadership by setting quality goals, developing plans of actions, assigning tasks, measuring progress, motivating team members, and communicating updates to collaborators.
• Demonstrate the ability to produce high quality written products including detailed analysis and recommendations.
• Demonstrate high-quality public speaking and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate superior interpersonal skills, ability to influence, and ability to partner with other teams to achieve results.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify the appropriate audience and convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at the appropriate level.

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

Serves as a dedicated technology resource for advancing DTCC's business opportunities and providing industry thought leadership for leveraging new technology. The goal of this new department is to partner internally with IT, our business and regulatory divisions and externally with clients, regulators, and fintech vendors, to help build new platforms and business models to advance DTCC's mission to support the financial markets.