Security Architecture and Engineering Lead (Officer)

About the Job

Location: Makati City

Corporate Title: Manager to AVP

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Our Information Security & Data Protection Office team is looking for experienced professionals to join us in Makati City with the role of Security Architecture and Engineering Lead.

In this role you will design, operate, and optimize the information security architecture and engineering function ensuring that the core security and privacy principles, standards, and control requirements are adequately embedded in the people, process, and technology aspects by design and sustained all throughout the business operations lifecycle.

Your dream. Our focus.

Whether you're just starting out, or already a seasoned professional, EastWest can help you unleash your potential, and bridge the gap between dream to success.

At EastWest, we empower our employees to drive their careers and are committed to provide the runway for them to grow. We value teamwork and individual initiative. Join us and be part of a highly engaged team, and a workplace that promotes development and goal attainment.

Over 29 years, EastWest has emerged as one of the most consumer-focused universal banks in the Philippines. EastWest is committed to continuously invest in people and in process, product, and service enhancements, and embrace new ideas to enhance the EastWest experience.

What the role will entail

• Collaborate with business and operations teams to understand strategic objectives, goals, technology needs, and emerging trends.
• Align overall security architecture with organizational risk/threat models and define enterprise-level security measures and reference architecture patterns.
• Provide expert technical guidance on designing and implementing security capabilities to mitigate risks from people, processes, and technology.
• Integrate enterprise security capabilities into solution architecture in collaboration with the enterprise architecture team.
• Facilitate collaborative risk assessment and threat modeling exercises with the enterprise architecture team to identify, prioritize, and develop a remediation roadmap.
• Serve as the primary point of escalation for security architecture decisions impacting multiple teams, and support the engineering of security solutions for core infrastructure services and enhancements.

What were looking for

• Bachelor's Degree in ICT, Computer Science or relevant degree
• Holder of any professional Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, GSEC, etc.)
• Extensive work experience in Security, preferably gained from the banking industry or similar environment
• In depth experience in Information Security, Network Security, IT Security, Cybersecurity, IT Risk Management, or related roles.
• Proven track record in implementing a security framework, solution and service, from design, engineering through implementation for a medium to large organization
• Expertise in designing, monitoring and optimizing security measures to protect information assets in cloud-based solutions setup (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Sound working knowledge of industry leading practices (ISO, NIST, SANS, COBIT) and legislative / regulatory compliance requirements (PCI, DPA, BSP, etc.)

What you can expect from joining our team

• Career development and training opportunities
• Competitive salary package and benefits
• Performance-based incentives and recognition programs to reward high-performing individuals
• Opportunity to work with industry experts and be mentored by them
• Defined career progression paths to guide you in your professional growth

To know more about us, and our career opportunities visit https://careers-page.com/eastwest-bank