Vice President - Product and Platform Security

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

For external candidates, this role will be hired only in Chicago, Kansas City, or New York.

Candidates must reside within a reasonable commuting distance of one of these Reserve Bank locations.

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash® , FedACH®, Check Services, and the FedNow® Service.

FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to customer experience, operations, technology, product and customer/industry management, enterprise services, payments system improvement, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service.

Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of FRFS customers across the United States.

Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.

The FRFS Enterprise operates with a customer-first mindset, comprised of team members seeking to do the best work of their careers in pursuit of our important central bank mission.

The Vice President of FRFS Product and Platform Security is a strategic leadership role responsible for establishing and overseeing the security architecture and engineering for all Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) products and platforms.

This role requires a unique combination of deep technical security expertise and strategic leadership capabilities to ensure FRFS products are designed, developed, and operated with security as a foundational element.

The VP will lead a team who embeds security throughout the product’s lifecycle from concept through retirement.

This position serves as the primary security advisor for FRFS product and platform initiatives, partnering closely with product managers, product owners, software engineering, solutions architecture, and business stakeholders to balance security requirements with operational needs and innovation.

The VP must be an influential communicator who can operate at both strategic and technical levels, articulating security concepts to diverse audiences while maintaining sufficient technical depth to evaluate complex security architectures, threat models, and risk scenarios.

Your Responsibilities



* Develop and maintain comprehensive security architecture for all FRFS products and platforms, ensuring compliance with Federal Reserve System (FRS) security standards and effective risk mitigation


* Oversee secure reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for FRFS products; ensure security architecture reviews for all new pro...