About the Role
Major accountabilities:
- Providing in depth expertise about security principles and ensuring controls are included as technical requirements
- Advising peer architects and technologists on approved security patterns and practices
- Reviewing and challenging defined IT security related internal standards for the ongoing improvement of Novartis policies and procedures
- Acting as a single point of contact, collaborating closely with other Security Architects and IT Architects on IT security related matters
- Promoting our IT Security culture within the business and application management team and building an external network regarding IT security relevant to the business function
- Defining pragmatic solutions and recommending alternatives that meet or exceed security requirements
- Performing risk/threat assessments of all IT project related to the function and reporting on the security status of projects
- Managing a pool of external security and solution architects assigned to our portfolio
- Managing prioritization of security assessment for the function, working with our application security risk assessment pool for low impact projects
Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:
- Degree in a business/technical/scientific area or comparable qualifications/experience
- 5 years of Information Security management or IT security expertise
- Expert knowledge of enterprise IT infrastructure technology, systems, vulnerability management, and organisational change processes, especially in large scale implementations
- Demonstrated experience of effectively engaging with senior business leaders across a matrixed environment
- Familiarity with frameworks such as COSO, ISO 2700x, CobiT, NIST, SOX, GDPR
- Knowledge of OWASP, SDLC, encryption, identity and access management, data integrity and other related secure software design methodologies
Nice To Have:
- Professional information security certification, such as CISSP, CISM or ISO 27001 auditor / practitioner is preferred. Professional (information system) risk or audit certification such as CIA, CISA or CRISC is preferred
- CSSLP, GSSP, ECCSP, CASS
Languages :
- Proficiency in English (oral and written) .
Role Requirements
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