Sr.Manager, Security Architecture (SOC and VM)

Job Description

Global Risk and Security (GR&S) at Vanguard enables business strategy, protects client and Vanguard interests (e.g., assets and data), and stewards a strong risk culture. Our teams leverage enterprise-wide insights, deep expertise, and trusted advice so that across Vanguard leaders and crew drive faster, stronger, risk-informed decisions.

Within GR&S, the Enterprise Security and Fraud (ES&F) sub-division is responsible for the global protection of Vanguard crew, property, data, and client assets. We are the trusted advisors that protect the pride of Vanguard with state-of-the-art security and fraud capabilities.

We are a world-class destination of highly engaged, passionate, and diverse talent expected to continuously learn and develop in an ever-changing security landscape. Our crew are our greatest resource – by joining our team you will build collaborative long-term relationships and enjoy a suite of benefits that includes comprehensive health and wellness care, work-life balance, and an investment in your future at its core.

Are you passionate about Analytics and AI/ML? Are you interested in defining architectural solutions leveraging cloud-based technologies and New Ways of Working? This is an exciting opportunity for you to be part of Enterprise Security and Fraud journey at Vanguard in driving cyber security and fraud outcomes for our clients.

The Senior Manager, Security Architecture (CSOC and VM) is accountable for proactively and holistically leading enterprise responses to disruptive forces by identifying and analyzing the execution of change toward the desired business vision and targeted outcomes. This starts and ends with a focus on delivering signature-ready, actionable recommendations to security leadership team, so they can adjust policies and projects to achieve target business outcomes.

The role is responsible for helping business and IT leaders enable their future-state business capabilities in a secure manner that, in turn, drive Vanguard's targeted business outcomes through the choice of programs, projects and initiatives that Enterprise Security and Fraud chooses to invest in..

The successful candidate will focus on Cyber Security Operations Center and Vulnerability Management outcomes practically applying existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models. Conversely, they must be able to understand, monetize and operationalize new technologies.

The role collaborates and coordinates across all domains of the security program, including:

(1) Alignment of business architecture to security outcomes, which is focused on guiding people, process and organizational change.

(2) Security architecture, which is focused on the consistent security posture in consuming and sharing of information across the enterprise.

(3) Solutions security architecture, which is focused on developing a direction for managing the security portfolio of to-be solutions.

(4) Technical architecture, which is focused on evolving the technical security infrastructure.

Scope of Activities

The candidate will demonstrate competencies across six key dimensions.

Lead and Influence

• Lead the continuous evolution of the enterprise security architecture across a multitude of domains.
• Promote the business value of the Security Architecture program/function and its process, and the results of the SA program to Risk, business and IT leaders/executives.
• Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise security architecture based on enterprise architecture and business strategy.
• Seek opportunities to highlight how digital business initiatives will potentially impact enterprises' security architecture.

Identify Ecosystems and Develop Security Models and Frameworks

• Understand the business's economic and financial levers that are susceptible to digital transformation, to effectively support and guide technology investment decisions.
• Design and construct future- and current-state security models to practically apply new and emerging technologies to drive them.
• Detail potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of your traditional realm of competition.

Focus on Strategy and Execution

• Demonstrate the business value of recommendations as an enabler of strategy formulation, and as support for technology innovation.
• Formulate, translate, advocate, support and execute security strategy to achieve the organization's targeted business outcomes.
• Construct technology-enabled operating models and provide viable options and visibility into execution issues.
• Scan the world for major disruptive technology and nontechnology trends (trendspotting) that affect security. Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes.
• Contextualize the technology and security trends based on social, economic, political, and other nontechnology trends.

Enable Enterprise Ideation and Innovation

• Track and apply innovative and existing technologies, anchoring them in the business model to assess their potential, and use rapid prototyping approaches to evolve innovations.
• Run technology experiments, helping to asses new products and services and integrating the best of theses into steady-state operations for the organization.

Determine and Help Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes

• Guide and advise stakeholders about disruptive technologies and trends.
• Work with business peers to develop and present security capability models and roadmaps to facilitate discussion and decision making with stakeholders across the enterprise.
• Lead analysis of the security future-state capabilities and future (and current) technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement and driving the business forward.
• Lead analysis of the security environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Lead and facilitate the creation of governance, assurance and standards to guide SA decision making.

Skills

• Knowledge of business models, operating models, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, budgeting and risk management
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, infrastructure and operations, and SA and ITIL frameworks
• Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), APIs, open data, microservices, event-driven IT and predictive analytics
• Exposure and understanding of existing, new, and emerging technologies, and processing environments.
• Exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent analytical and technical skills
• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Knowledge of all components of holistic enterprise architecture
• Knowledge of business engineering principles and processes

Competencies

• Organizationally savvy thought leader
• Ability to balance the long-term ("big picture") and short-term implications of individual decisions.
• Ability to translate regulatory and needs into SA requirements.
• Ability to estimate the financial impact of SA alternatives.
• Ability to apply multiple solutions to business problems.
• Ability to rapidly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
• Understand and speak the language of the business and technology.
• Influential in the organization and a team player
• Effective at driving short-term actions that are consistent with long-term goal.

Special Factors

• This is a hybrid role with Tues, Wed, Thurs in the office and Mon, Fri is remote
• Vanguard is not offering sponsorship for this position.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.