Cyber Security Design Oversight Senior Manager

DTCC • Coppell, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the Cyber Security Design Oversight Senior Manager, you will serve as a Second Line of Defense (2LoD) authority providing independent oversight, challenge, and assurance across DTCC. This role ensures IAM controls and processes align to regulatory, risk, and security standards. You will influence design decisions, validate control effectiveness, and report on identity risk posture to senior leadership and governance forums.
Cyber Security Risk Office (CSRO) is responsible for setting strategic directions in the areas of IT Risk and Information Security. Maintains corporate security standards and control standards, acts as a second line of defense via a robust collection of risk and control assessments, reports to leadership and the Board on the status of the IT Risk and Information Security Programs, acts as an operational arm for monitoring threat intelligence, understanding when threats are being targeted against the firm, and responding to potential incidents, and serves as the main interface for Regulatory and Client reviews that focus on IT Risk and Information Security.

Cyber Security Standards & Design Oversight (CSSDO) is responsible for providing highly advanced technical and analytical skills to Cyber Security Resilience (CSR) by ensuring project teams adhere to security control standards and guidelines throughout the project lifecycle.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Experience with IAM platforms (Okta, Entra ID, SailPoint, CyberArk).
• CISSP, CISM, or IAM-specific certifications.
• Minimum of 10 years in IAM with strong knowledge of IGA, PAM, SSO/MFA, federation, and cloud identity.
• Experience in risk management or second-line oversight within financial services or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with regulatory and industry frameworks (SOX, FFIEC, etc.), and audit processes.
• Ability to interpret technical IAM designs and articulate risk implications to senior stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, communication, and influencing skills.
• Strategic problem solver with ability to challenge and influence across multiple levels.
• Strong understanding of identity risk and control design.
• Ability to build governance frameworks and communicate effectively with executives.
• Encourages different approaches or ways of working.
• Encourages teams to constructively challenge established views.
• Presents information clearly in writing and orally in larger group settings.
• Convince others on key topics by presenting persuasive arguments and alternative approaches.
• Sets an example for others by personally embracing change; Builds ownership for change by empowering others to lead change initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain DTCC’s IAM control framework for workforce, partner, and customer identities.
• Provide independent challenge on IAM design decisions, risk assessments, and control implementations.
• Conduct risk-based reviews of IAM processes (provisioning, de-provisioning, RBAC/PBAC, PAM, access recertification).
• Validate effectiveness of access governance controls and escalate gaps to senior risk committees.
• Present independent assessments to risk governance forums and senior leadership.
• Partner with first-line IAM teams to advise on best practices without assuming operational ownership.
• Influence technology roadmaps to align with Zero-Trust principles and DTCC's risk appetite.
• Effectively manages tasks and people, taking a practical approach to determine the most effective method of execution while respecting others.
• Lead working groups of subject matter experts for definition and review of security standards, guidelines, principles, governance and controls.
• Responsible for subject matter expertise in development and lifecycle of security baselines customized to DTCC environment.
• Authoritative source for interpretation of standards in respect to technological implementations.
• Work with project teams to ensure technical quality of security focused deliverables and adherence to security standards, governance and controls practices.
• Actively contributes subject matter expert advice to CSRO members, cross-functional application development teams, various councils and committees and architecture roundtable meetings.
• Defines, publishes and maintains software and processes for security governance (i.e. compliance with principles, guidelines and standards).
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level