Vice President, Lead Solution Architect - Secure Design

Position: Vice President, Lead Solution Architect - Secure by Design
Location: City Of London
Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

MUFG  (Mitsubishi  UFJ  Financial  Group)  is  one  of  the  world's  leading  financial  groups.  Headquartered  in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The  group  has  over  150,000  employees,  offering  services  including  commercial  banking,  trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture  and  retain  the  most  talented  individuals  in  the  market.  The  size  and  range  of  MUFG's  global business  creates  opportunities  for  our  employees  to  stretch  themselves  and  reap  the  rewards,  whilst  our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and  honest,  underpin  everything  that  we  do.  

We  aim  to  be  the  financial  partner  of  choice  for  our  clients, whatever  their  requirements,  building  long-term  relationships,  serving  society,  and  fostering  shared  and sustainable growth for a better world.

Please visit our website for more information -  Risk, Security & Control department covers cyber security strategy maintenance and tactical planning and operations to provide IT Security protection, governance, risk management and reporting. This includes promoting the global Information Security Standards and Procedures (ISSP) requirements and local security requirements.

The department deploys, supports and monitors security solutions such as virus protection, vulnerability management, complianfce monitoring and threat/incident management activities to reduce risk.
** MAIN PURPOSE OF

THE ROLE
*** To lead a team of Governance Risk and Control SMEs responsible for carrying out IT Security Assessments (Secure-by-Design) on technology projects.
* To ensure that all projects comply with IT security policies and requirements.
** KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
** In this role, you will be responsible for managing the secure-by-design team activities across MUFG’s banking arm and securities business under a dual-hat arrangement. Under this arrangement, you will act and make decisions on behalf of both the bank and the securities business, subject to the same remit and level of authority, and irrespective of the entity which employs you.  

The responsibilities include, but not limited to:
* Delivering on the secure-by-design process to help ensure that all relevant TEC projects undergo security review prior to implementation.
* Managing the team of GRC SMEs delivering on the Secure-by-Design activities:
Outlining relevant KPIs and measuring the team against the KPIs
* Interviewing business and technology stakeholders responsible for controls (technical and non-technical)
* Reviewing the team’s reports and conclusions and ensuring suitability of the relevant evidence required to demonstrate the operating effectiveness
* Developing a testing strategy for testing operating effectiveness of controls
* Arriving at informed conclusions regarding gaps in control operating effectiveness
* Documentation of risks, gaps, findings and recommended actions
* Managing your and the team’s time to ensure testing is completed in a timely manner
** WORK…