Lead Information Security Consultant (Third Party Oversight)

Lead Information Security Consultant (Third Party Oversight)

At Capital One, you will help consult on initiatives, programs, and projects to raise their game in Information Security. You are pragmatic and practical in your understanding of risk and security, but also willing to know when to pull in experts and escalate. You collaborate and innovate with other teams within Capital One to push the envelope. The associate will support the Global Payment Network's Third Party Management function from a Cyber lens. The associate will partner with Global Payment Network leaders, Third Party Manager, risk management functions, and various cyber teams to provide sound risk consulting and influence business decisions that reduce or eliminate risk to Capital One. You will challenge and innovate within your team to drive process improvements to elevate program efficiency. Security is essential to what we do here, from protecting our customers to our associates.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a central Information Security point of contact for Third Parties in the Global Payment Network line of business
• Establish effective working relationships with key stakeholders
• Proactively identify information security risk and partner with key stakeholders to reduce or eliminate risk
• Coordinate and execute proactive consulting to both internal and external teams as it relates to third party information security risk
• Support business related projects and initiatives and influence customers to make solid business decisions
• Provide regular updates to executive leadership within Cyber and other stakeholders on the overall Third Party Management health and risk environment
• Influence customers to leverage security capabilities and solutions to shift and integrate security to the left in the development processes
• Escalate and manage cyber security risk
• Provide ad hoc support on special departmental goals, objectives, and initiatives

About You:

• You have a desire to work in a very fast moving, forward leaning, and modern computing environment
• You have a strong desire to continually learn about new technologies
• You possess strong conceptual thinking and communication skills
• You are able to work well under minimal supervision
• You are a demonstrated team-oriented professional with interpersonal skills and the ability to interface effectively with a broad range of people and roles, including upper management, IT leaders, and external third parties
• You maintain calmness and clarity of thought under pressure and ability to maintain confidentiality
• You demonstrate strong ability to analyze information and data
• You demonstrate strong subject matter expertise and sound judgment when analyzing third party risk
• You operate in a collaborative manner to effectively assess risk while maintaining business relationships
• You develop and communicate quality recommendations to key stakeholders
• You communicate technical issues to non-technical people
• You demonstrate collaborative partnership skills for working with various points of contacts
• You demonstrate capacity to think broadly but go deep into subject matter when needed
• You have a deep understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to drive results toward those objectives

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent certification
• At least 4 years of experience providing guidance and oversight of cybersecurity concepts
• At least 3 years of experience performing security risk assessments and security architecture reviews
• At least 3 years of experience with architecture design, software design, networking or Cloud infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2+ years of experience in PCI DSS, NIST, ISO, Physical Security, or IT Operations Management
• 2+ years of experience at a Financial Institution
• 2+ years of experience in Third Party Risk
• Experience in a regulated environment
• CISSP, CISA, or CRISC certification

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

Chicago, IL: $179,400 - $204,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical

McLean, VA: $197,300 - $225,100 for Manager, Cyber Technical

New York, NY: $215,200 - $245,600 for Manager, Cyber Technical

Plano, TX: $179,400 - $204,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical

Richmond, VA: $179,400 - $204,700 for Manager, Cyber Technical

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate's offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.

No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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