Designs and implements security measures across development, operations, SaaS/PaaS and multi-cloud environments. Leads data lineage, data protection, ERP security delivery, QA testing, performance monitoring, and privacy incident response while collaborating with internal and external partners to maintain compliance and security posture.
Job Purpose and Impact
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
- The Senior Professional, Application Data & Cloud Security job designs, implements and oversees security measures across development, security and operations, software as a service or platform as a service and multi-cloud environments. With minimal supervision, this job ensures the integrity, confidentiality and availability of data and applications, thereby supporting the organization's overall security posture and compliance with industry standards.
Key Accountabilities
- SECURITY FRAMEWORKS: Designs and implements development, security and operations tools and processes as well as multi-cloud control capabilities to improve security posture across the organization.
- SECURITY CONTROLS: Designs and operates software as a service or platform as a service security controls to protect applications and data in cloud environments.
- DATA MANAGEMENT: Leads data lineage, data protection and flow controls to ensure secure data handling and compliance with regulations.
- CYBERSECURITY DELIVERY: Leads cybersecurity delivery to safeguard enterprise resource planning systems and associated data, assessing and suggesting preparation for potential risks.
- PERFORMANCE MONITORING: Leads performance monitoring to assess security measure's effectiveness and efficiency and recommend areas for improvement.
- DATA PRIVACY FUNCTIONS: Engages with the data privacy function during incidents to ensure compliance and mitigate risks.
- QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTING: Performs complex quality assurance testing and proposes continuous improvements to security processes and tools.
- PERFORMANCE METRICS: Quantifies, prepares and communicates business and functional performance against objectives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and security standards.
- COLLABORATION: Cooperates with cybersecurity peers, data privacy partners, external experts, industry consortia, and other internal and external teams to maintain effective and efficient data protection fundamentals and deliver business objectives.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
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