• Cultivate security culture. Products that have the right security culture will strive to prioritize sustainable controls and driving real risk reduction outcomes.
• Embed threat modeling, security architecture, secure code review into product and application teams to ensure products are created secure from the start.
• Know database products across their breadth and depth. Be fluent in your product’s strategy and roadmap as well as its key investment programs.
• Be your product’s security thought leader. Learn from your product and cybersecurity teams and share best practice in both directions. Be recognized in your product as the clear point of escalation and subject matter expert for IT Risk and Cyber domains.
• Monitor Key Risk Indicators to ensure issues are identified, quantified, communicated, and managed in a timely manner, including recommendations for resolution, and identifying the root cause
• Work collaboratively with product, technology, and business colleagues on an on-going basis for business-as-usual audit and regulatory engagements, risk activities and project initiatives.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering* concepts and 10+ years applied experience
• Experience of operating in a regulated organization with a 3rd LoD (Line of defense) model.
• Detailed, technical understanding of Public Cloud computing (GCP/AWS). Especially how Public Cloud services are hardened, and controls are applied to secure data, ensure resiliency/availability as well as prevent unauthorized access.
• Proficient in database encryption techniques, both at rest and in transit, to protect sensitive data.
• Proficient in database access control mechanisms, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and fine-grained access control (FGAC) mechanisms in DB systems.
• Proficient in database auditing and monitoring solutions to detect and respond to potential security breaches.
• Proficient in database vulnerability assessment and penetration testing methodologies to identify and remediate security weaknesses.
• Experience with secure database architecture design, including tenant isolation, and database hardening techniques
• Proficient in database backup, recovery, and disaster recovery strategies to ensure data availability and resilience against attacks or failures.
• Experience with Integration of database security with identity and access management (IAM) systems, such as single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA) and newer technologies like OAuth and OpenID.
• Familiarity with securing various database management systems (DBMS), such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Neo4J, TigerGraph.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Knowledgeable in industry-specific database security standards and regulations, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and GDPR
• Ability to collaborate on, and/or lead, ad hoc teams for control architecture and design.
• Experience translating firm wide policy or regulatory requirements into control design and definition for Software Engineers and Solutions Architects
• Experience in financial services consumer businesses (i.e., Mortgages, Cards or Digital) preferred but not required.

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