JOB DESCRIPTION:
The New York City Department of Finance (DOF) is seeking to hire an experienced, engaging and innovative Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), to serve as a senior-level executive to oversee and coordinate all IT security efforts for the agency. DOF is embarking on new technology initiatives and the selected candidate must be able to establish an enterprise-wide risk management program for cyber security to prevent cyber-attacks and other security breaches and develop and manage an integrated Agency-wide security strategy. Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), the selected candidate must have strong organizational and team leadership skills to achieve interdepartmental compliance and to ensure that departmental IT security staff adopt and fully integrate appropriate security and privacy practices and must have extensive technical knowledge in cyber-security and information systems. Detailed knowledge of security and privacy technologies and best practices, as well as, knowledge of appropriate security methods and controls, and IT security privacy legislation and related policy issues are required. The ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with the Agency’s executive management, IT technical staff, legal staff, third-party vendors and related industry experts is required. The selected candidate will represent the Agency's information security interests to State and Federal agencies and regulatory bodies. The CISO will oversee the following: • Comprehensive IT security program management. • System security design, development, analysis and testing. • Evaluating information security and developing appropriate solutions. • Functional structures of various operating systems components and associated security features. • Application architecture and design of Data network security. • Researching new developments in information technology and their relevance to current business needs and security strategies. • Development of strategies for secure, cloud-based services. • Project budgeting, quality assessment and control and resource management. • The operations, services, concepts, terms and activities common to a comprehensive, state- of-the-art information systems security program. • Current regulatory requirements; best practices and standard procedures for forensics and assessments.
Salary:
$80,379.00 - $150,000.00
Median salary:
$115,189.50
Posting date:
June 11, 2015
End date:
N/A
Department:
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
Url:
https://a127-jobs.nyc.gov