Manager, Cyber Security

Role Purpose

The Cyber Security Engineering IAM & PAM team are looking for an independent, pro-active, and aspiring individual who is committed to making a meaningful contribution, as a PAM/IAM support engineer team lead. They will play a leading role utilising their technical and leadership experience to enhance IAM / PAM solutions that best fit our business requirements. The team are a part of the Cyber Security Engineering function who are developing cyber defence capabilities to protect the business from cyber threats which seek to impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the group.

Reports to

Director IAM & PAM Architecture, Cyber Security

Direct reports

Leads a small team

May manage contingents and vendor/partner resources in their deliveries.

Key relationships & committees

Stakeholders include the wider security team including security architecture, Identity and Access Management, cyber strategy business function, governance, risk and compliance, programme management. Entity level Business Information Security Officers (BISOs). Infrastructure & Cloud operations, engineering, and architecture teams. Internal risk and audit functions. Architecture and corporate approval forums. External partners/vendors, and industry schemes.

Location / flexible working

Bengaluru – Hybrid Working

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• •Contribute to domain strategies and architectures, leads on engineering and the associated artefacts across the areas of identity & access management, privileged access management and secrets management technology.
• •Be responsible for the controls related to the domain area and ensure they remain effective.
• •Lead and deliver smaller scale projects or discrete workstreams for larger projects as part of the cyber programme and other initiatives.
• •Manage and deliver changes to controls as necessary which are not part of project activity.
• •Develop key indicators, analysis and artefacts to continually evidence and report control effectiveness and risk for the group.
• •Critical issue support for any operational incident from operations or global security operations centre for related domain technologies.
• •Accountable for ongoing activities and objectives of the team.
• •Solve complex problems related to the area.
• •Remain current with principles, concepts and emerging technologies related to the role.

Leadership responsibilities

The role holder will lead a small team, responsible for supporting the IAM and PAM team as second line. They will be accountable for delivering quality service, robust processes and will cover all aspects of team management, supported by the Senior Manager, such as reviews, shift management and reward.

Critical work

• •Delivery of activities against of agreed cyber security strategies. Shapes project delivery with the project management team and the senior manager of the domain area.
• •Delivery of key artefacts associated with the role, artefacts support evidencing and assurance activities.
• •Ongoing control operation and effectiveness and evidencing of such.
• •Reporting, development and management of agreed measures, key performance indicators and key risk indicators.
• •Manage and support a small team to deliver consistent service outcomes and foster continuing development

Impact

As a group level function, the role has impact across all parts of the business as it has responsibility for the relevant security controls seeking to mitigate the risk and impact to the group from cyber-attacks. Impacts include financial, economic, regulatory, customer and brand.

The role is key to addressing regulatory concerns for all our regulated entities related to cyber security and cyber resilience.

Key critical metrics

Delivery of projects and BAU activities within agreed timescales to the required standard.

Issues that are identified are fixed and remain fixed and are not recurring.

Key artefacts for the activities performed exist, are accurate and of required standard.

Agreed measures related to controls owned by the role, for example Key Risk Indicators, are delivered and managed.

Technical / job functional knowledge

• •Knowledge and experience in the engineering and operation of privileged access management (PAM) and Identity Access Management (IAM) technologies and concepts and the integration with relevant platforms. Level of knowledge in the domain technology area would be considered competent.
• •Has proven experience in managing and developing direct reports to achieve operational goals.
• •Knowledge of different operating systems, platforms, and applications where relevant for the domain area and implications for those platforms. Level of knowledge would be considered proficient.
• •Engineering of layered control capabilities.
• •An understanding of information security principles and standard methodologies.
• •A good understanding of Adversary Tools, Techniques and Procedures (TTP’s) is required.
• •Knowledge in domain area and basic knowledge across non-core domain areas.
• •Modern engineering practices, automation to drive efficiencies. Infrastructure as Code mentality. Code / scripting for practical tasks and tool integrations.
• •Structured and methodical problem-solving practices for resolving sophisticated problems.
• •Policies, standards and security frameworks, NIST, CIS. Strong skills to author formal documentation.
• •Understanding of security metrics to measure control operation and risk.
• •The position holder works independently with minimal guidance and is expected to solve problems with sound judgement and in a way that is aligned to good practice and in the long-term interests of LSEG.
• •The role holder is likely to hold one or more of the following security or engineering/architecture specific certifications, CISSP, OSCP, TOGAF, GIAC or other relevant qualification.

Business and sector expertise

Experience and knowledge of technology in financial services and/or regulated environments and industry compliance schemes (for example SWIFT) preferred.

Will have experience of working in security focussed roles. Likely will have greater than 5 years full time in security, in an overall career in technology of around 8 years, focussed predominantly in this specialised area. Expected to have direct hands-on experience in some of the domain area technologies.

Leadership and management experience

Experience in advocating for and inspiring change to reach the best outcome according to the needs of the organisation, customers and industry trends.

Personal skills and capabilities

Collaborating across the group to deliver successful balanced outcomes for the group and its partners.

Inspire team to deliver secure, meaningful results through purposeful leadership and collaboration.

Takes ownership and commits to delivering sustainable outcomes and resolving problems.

Demonstrates a bias for action.

Consistent track record of delivering results without compromising on quality.

Critical thinker, takes in broad perspectives to assess and make decisions.

Willingness and flexibility and to work across different technologies.

Capability to quickly assimilate new concepts and technologies.

Takes ownership of own career development and learning.

Supports colleagues with less experience to help in their professional growth.

Adapts messaging and presentation styles to the requirements of the audience.

Is measured and considered in complicated and fast paced situations.

Diversity & Inclusion

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our colleagues thrive personally and professionally through our shared values of Integrity, Partnership, Innovation and Excellence are at the core of our culture. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract people with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We are always looking at ways to become more agile, so we meet the needs of our teams and customers. We believe that an inclusive collaborative work