Secure Business Enablement Executive

U.S. Bank•Minneapolis, MN

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Secure Business Enablement Executive leads how Information Security Services partners with Technology and the businesses to securely enable modernization, artificial intelligence, cloud adoption and enterprise transformation. The role unites application security, cloud security, security architecture, third-party security integration and business information security engagement under one accountable executive to reduce handoffs and create a consistent experience for Technology and business partners. This enterprise executive translates cybersecurity strategy into scalable engineering capabilities, standards and reusable patterns that help Technology teams move faster while reducing material exposure, technology complexity and attack surface. The role embeds security into platforms, architecture and delivery, with shared outcomes across Information Security Services (ISS) and Technology. The executive has direct accountability for multiple critical security engineering and enablement functions and an organization of approximately 100 FTEs, with material influence over the bank’s technology, AI, cloud, software, SaaS and third-party strategies. The role works directly with the CISO, CIOs and other senior executives, makes decisions affecting enterprise technology delivery and cyber risk, and integrates strategy, architecture, engineering, risk and business outcomes across organizational boundaries. The position requires working from a U.S. Bank location three or more days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
15 or more years of combined relevant leadership experience in organizational goal setting, with strategic and technical expertise.
Extensive executive leadership experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, cloud, enterprise architecture or technology risk within a large, complex and highly regulated organization.
Track record of leading multiple technical disciplines at enterprise scale and translating strategy into durable engineering and operating-model change.
Deep understanding of modern software delivery, cloud platforms, application security, security architecture, AI-enabled technology, third-party technology risk and cyber resilience.
Proven success influencing CIOs, business executives and senior engineering leaders, including navigating competing priorities and shared accountability.
Ability to balance secure enablement, risk, speed, customer experience, resilience and economics without defaulting to control-only or delivery-only outcomes.
Strong talent leadership, organizational design, financial management and change leadership capabilities.
Polished executive presence and clear, credible communication for senior management, board, regulator, audit and external-industry engagement.

Responsibilities

Operationalize the enterprise cybersecurity strategy and Technology partnership by embedding security earlier in technology decisions, architecture and software delivery.
Create an integrated secure-delivery organization spanning application security, cloud security, security architecture, third-party security integration and BISO engagement.
Enable the bank’s AI, cloud and modernization agenda through secure patterns, paved paths, automation and risk-informed decision-making.
Reduce technology complexity and attack surface through enterprise standards, lifecycle discipline, software and SaaS rationalization, and stronger technology and third-party architecture decisions.
Establish shared ISS and Technology measures to assess exposure reduction, resilience and safe-delivery improvements.
Lead application security, cloud security and security architecture capabilities, integrating security into software development, cloud platforms, major transformations and technology modernization.
Serve as the senior ISS partner to CIOs, Technology executives and business leaders, translating priorities into security engineering actions, decisions and investments.
Establish scalable patterns for secure AI and agentic technology adoption, addressing architecture, model and software supply chains, data protection, identity, runtime controls, payments and ongoing assurance.
Drive adoption of enterprise security architecture, reusable controls, paved paths and technology standards; partner on software and SaaS rationalization, lifecycle management and platform consolidation.
Advance secure-by-design, continuous assurance and automated testing across applications, dependencies, cloud environments and delivery pipelines; ensure findings result in prioritized engineering action.
Integrate security earlier into third-party, SaaS, acquisition and strategic technology decisions; assess technology currency, architecture, concentration, software supply chain, control maturity and compensating controls.
Evolve business information security engagement toward deeper technical partnership, connecting business priorities and material cyber risk to architecture, engineering, product and portfolio decisions.
Reduce organizational handoffs and fragmented intake, creating a consistent, transparent and accountable experience for teams using ISS services, including SEP V2 and future secure-enablement capabilities.
Define and report shared ISS and Technology measures, including secure-pattern adoption, material exposure reduction, technology currency, delivery friction, remediation progress and portfolio-level risk reduction.
Lead a multidisciplinary organization of approximately 100 FTEs; set strategy, develop senior talent, manage succession and workforce plans, oversee budget and investment priorities, and foster an inclusive, high-accountability culture.
Advise and partner with the CISO, CIOs, senior Technology and business executives, enterprise architecture, engineering and product leaders, procurement and third-party management, risk and compliance, legal, audit and external partners.
Set the strategy and operating model for secure business enablement capabilities within ISS; approve security architecture, engineering patterns and service priorities within delegated authority and escalate material risk decisions where appropriate.
Influence enterprise technology standards, platform choices, third-party decisions and modernization sequencing through partnership with Technology and business leadership.
Own workforce, budget and vendor priorities for the organization, linking investments to measurable outcomes.
Represent ISS in senior governance forums and major technology, AI, cloud, third-party and transformation decisions.

Benefits

Healthcare coverage, including medical, dental and vision
Basic term and optional term life insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Pregnancy disability and parental leave
401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
Paid vacation, from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure
Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
Adoption assistance
Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
Pension