Vice President – Security Tooling Product Line

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems.

We invest in contemporary and emerging technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life.

In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more.

All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and practiced leader to join our Identity, Security and Network Services (ISN) team, as the Vice President of our Security Tooling Product Line.

You will lead the strategy and vision for the services and capabilities that your team provides by working across the Federal Reserve System to understand incoming business requirements, partnering with teams and people across multiple Reserve Banks to create the capabilities needed to ensure we can properly manage our environment against threat actors and secure our platforms.

You will be expected to cross organizational boundaries and drive the changes needed to support the Federal Reserve’s cloud and infrastructure transformation within your area, while maintaining a focus on ensuring all services under your direction continue to remain secure and reliable in supporting the US economy.

You will partner closely with the Information Security Officers across the Federal Reserve as well as partner with teams across National IT as we work together to put security and risk policy into tools and controls that keep the Federal Reserve System safe.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in a matrixed organization and influencing without authority.

They will be familiar with and able to operate in an agile and product oriented operating model that is focused on delivering outcomes which provide business value over individual components.

You will act as a servant leader and ensure your team is trained, empowered, and enabled to drive many decisions on their own and to move quickly, fail fast, and deliver quality outcomes.

You and your team will be accountable and responsible for modernizing and uplifting our tooling as we continue our journey to the cloud and prepare for new challenges from Generative AI, post-quantum cryptography, and other emerging areas.

As part of your remit, you will be responsible for tooling across cloud compliance, cryptographic services, data loss protectio...