Job Summary

We’re seeking a skilled Cyber Security Lead to develop and execute our enterprise-wide security strategy, managing incident response, and protecting our banking assets globally.

If you’re searching for a career with high visibility, a steep learning curve and the opportunity to change the future of a global business, you’ve found it. Join our Cyber Defence team and you’ll be given the resources you need to protect our most valuable assets – our people and our products. It’s a demanding job. Our security needs are broad, unique and constantly evolving. That’s why you’ll have the freedom to work autonomously and enjoy access to resources like cyber hub, our dedicated learning programme. Get ready to pioneer better, faster and safer ways to enhance our resilience against threats while keeping our business moving forward.

About our Technology & Operations Team 
Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  
 
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.   

Key Responsibilities

•    As Cyber Security Lead, you’ll be responsible for real-time monitoring of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) alerts to identify potential enterprise threats.
•    You’ll perform analysis of alerts and logs gathered from various operating systems, network devices, applications, databases and security tools.
•    Perform Security Operations Centre (SOC) investigations for Cyber Security cases escalated by management and other teams.
•    Extend analytical support to security incident calls across the enterprise.
•    Analyse suspicious emails.
•    Participate in incident response, including detection, containment, eradication, and post incident reporting.

Skills and Experience

•    You’ll have extensive experience in Cyber Security and strong leadership skills, ideally with substantial experience in financial services or banking. 
•    You’ll have a deep knowledge of information technology (IT) supply chain security and supply chain risk management policies, requirements, and procedures.
•    You’ll have managed large teams and budgets in complex, regulated environments.
•    You’ll have a proven track record of developing and implementing enterprise-wide security strategies and programmes, including experience with digital transformation initiatives.
•    You’ll be knowledgeable in security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defence-in-depth).
•    In addition, you will have deep technical expertise across key security domains including network security, identity and access management, and security operations.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.