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Federal Reserve Bank Senior Risk Specialist in Atlanta, Georgia
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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
As an employee of the Atlanta Fed, you will help support our mission of promoting the stability and efficiency of the U.S. economy and financial system. Your work will affect the economy of the Southeast, the United States, and the world. The work we do here is important, and how we do it is just as important as what we do. We live our values of integrity, excellence, and respect every day. We do the right thing, we do things right, and we treat people right. A career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta gives you the chance to do work that touches lives and helps communities prosper.
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.
The Federal Banking Agencies (FBAs) jointly conduct the supervision of technology services provided by certain third-party service providers under the authority provided in the Bank Service Company Act (BSCA). The Service Provider Program currently includes third-party service providers that are deemed particularly systemically important (i.e., Significant Service Providers, or SSPs) and the ones that are deemed less so (Regional Service Providers, or RSPs). Oversight of the Federal Reserve’s supervision of SSPs will be conducted by the SSP Management Group (MG).
The SSP portfolio is looking for highly motivated individuals to join the Portfolio Coordination Group (PCG), which supports the SSP MG in carrying out the MG’s governance and oversight responsibilities over the Federal Reserve’s SSP portfolio. The PCG coordinates supervisory program execution to ensure portfolio-wide transparency and consistency in a manner aligned with the strategic direction, priorities and plans set forth by the SSP MG. The PCG Senior Risk Specialist will report functionally to the PCG Lead. Administrative reporting will be through the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
We offer a dynamic hybrid workplace environment that requires at least 2 days per week in the office.
Work Location: You will be a Federal Reserve Bank employee working within commutable distance of a Federal Reserve Bank, or approved Branch.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to carry out following activities:
Contributes to review of cybersecurity and/or cloud security examinations to determine the effectiveness of a FI’s and SSP’s cybersecurity posture and validate remediation efforts of identified issues.
Contributes on Federal Reserve System and local cyber security and/or cloud security initiatives related to training, committees, and development of policy statements to enhance the supervision of FIs and SSPs.
Supports review of supervisory plans for relevant cybersecurity and/or cloud security areas and effective risk-based supervision factoring in size and complexity of target firms.
Conduct horizontal (second-level) reviews of key Central Point of Contact’s (CPC’s) work products such as supervisory plans / strategies, exam scopes, conclusion memos, supervisory letters and reports of examination, findings and ratings, vetting deliverables following first-level review by the Responsible Reserve Bank.
Lead initiatives that modernize SSP supervision and assist with the vetting preparation of supervisory strategies, significant findings, and ratings.
Conduct and contribute to cross-entity work (e.g., scenario-developed analysis)
Identify, develop, and execute horizontal review topics
Implement SSP program enhancements or policy changes
Develop quarterly portfolio-level continuous monitoring topics
Develop portfolio-level analytics packages and dashboards
Coordinate incident response, threat and vulnerability monitoring
Contribute to OASiS implementation and enhancements
Other duties as assigned
Skills desired include:
Strong knowledge of supervision and the examination process to drive change and manage risk
Strong understanding of operational and cyber resilience, cloud security, third-party risk management and legal and policy mandates in the financial sector that pertain to third-party risk management and cybersecurity risks and industry standards and guidance (i.e., FFIEC IT Handbook and NIST CSF)
Previous SSP CPC experience and examiner commission a plus
Strong critical thinking, analytical and data analysis skills
Proven ability to effectively influence outcomes and build consensus across multiple stakeholders
Ability to combine risk analysis with sound judgement in proposing recommendations
Ability to engage and influence cross-functional teams and work collaboratively with internal and external teams
Excellent oral and written communications skills
Ability to lead, juggle and effectively prioritize multiple projects simultaneously while meeting critical deadlines and stakeholder expectations
Sound judgment, tact and diplomacy as well as keen political savvy and experience navigating complex third-party risk and cybersecurity issues
Experience
Minimum 5 years of experience in at least some of the following domains:
Cyber Security and IT Risk management
Cloud Security
Cybersecurity response and resilience
IT Audit and/or IT examination or supervision
Change and Configuration Management
Asset and Lifecycle Management
Vendor risk management
Cybersecurity response and resilience
Data governance and security
Endpoint and server technologies
Intrusion detection and prevention systems
Identity access management and access control
Threat and vulnerability management
Problem and Incident Management
Effective written and verbal (including presentation and negotiation) communication skills in dealing with all levels of senior management, boards of directors and other regulatory agencies
Analytical, problems solving and time management skills
Familiarity with:
FFIEC, NIST, SANS and ISO standards and frameworks
Information security, cybersecurity, and risk management principles
Network management/architecture
Certifications/Licenses:
Certified in CISSP, CISA, CISM, and/or industry certification is a plus.
Cloud certification is preferred but not required.
Examiner commission preferred but not required.
Our total rewards program offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:
Comprehensive healthcare options (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
401K match, and a fully funded pension plan
Paid vacation and holidays; flexible work environment
Generously subsidized public transportation
Education Assistance Program
Professional development programs, training and conferences
And more…
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, rush jobs, change in workload or technological developments).
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer.
Full Time / Part Time
Full time
Regular / Temporary
Regular
Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes
Job Category
Work Shift
First (United States of America)
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