Cyber Security Technical Consultant – US Remote

Cyber Security Technical Consultant – US Remote Eligible – Edward Jones Philadelphia, PA Remote

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At Edward Jones, we help clients achieve their serious, long-term financial goals by understanding their needs and implementing tailored solutions. To ensure a personal client experience, we have located our 14,000+ branch offices where our more than 7 million clients live and work.

A typical branch office has one financial advisor who meets with clients face-to-face and one branch office administrator who enhances the team’s ability to build deep relationships with clients. Headquarters associates in St. Louis and Tempe provide support and expertise to help U.S. and Canada branch teams deliver an ideal client experience. Edward Jones currently has more branch offices than any other financial services firm, and we continue to grow to meet the needs of long-term individual investors.

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Job-Overview

What Threat And Vulnerability Management (TVM) Does…

TVM plays a vital role in ensuring protection of client data and the Firm’s sensitive information as it is responsible for computer intrusion network monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, and insider threat detection. The team also coordinates assessments and vulnerability testing, security tools configuration, and management and provides thought leadership for department security projects as well as broader firm efforts.

What You’ll Do…

• Actively mentor and train other associates in their area of expertise.
• Provide direction as to the effective use of technology within the enterprise architecture.
• Provide leadership related to technical aspects of tools, methodologies, best practices and processes and standards that apply to their technical area of expertise.
• Research technical improvements and takes the initiative to communicate and implement solutions.
• Participates and represents area in cross-functional groups.
• Communicates issues and problem resolutions with all affected stakeholders, business areas and vendors.
• Researches requirements to determine system feasibility, costs, benefits, or functional requirements.
• Ensure prudent use of the firm’s financial resources.
• Plan and maintain currency of security systems leveraged by TVM to ensure environment supports protection of client data and the Firm’s sensitive information.
• Establish and maintain appropriate enterprise security policies, standards, recommended practices, procedures, and controls.
• Design and review moderate to high complexity security processes and controls to assist management in the protection of Information System resources and associated assets against accidental or unauthorized access, modification, destruction, or disclosure.
• Ensure compliance to published Information Security policies and standards.
• Identify threats posed to Edward Jones information systems and clients and facilitate remediation of these threats or vulnerabilities.
• Establish and maintain effective communications and relationships across departments, business areas and vendors.
• Perform liaison at outside conferences, events, and companies.
• Provide security services that align with business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure monitoring is appropriate and effective for detecting and reporting of key security events.
• Actively participate in security related continuing education.
• Provide security input into medium to high complexity development efforts that may impact security.
  

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Skills-Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or Cybersecurity Management or related work experience.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience directly related to technical area of expertise.
• Considered a subject matter expert in an I.S. discipline (business solutions, systems development, infrastructure area, planning, security) and have experience across multiple platforms in an area or multiple technologies in a layer (network, computing, operating systems, data, application infrastructure, appliances, business solutions, security, systems management);
• Ability to develop system designs within area of expertise.
• Ability to perform analysis of system requirements to determine feasibility, costs, benefits.
• Demonstrates the ability to provide strategic direction and technical leadership to align objectives with the overall Firm strategy
• Able to create a strong team environment and build technical skills through training and mentoring of others.
• Ability to influence Team Leaders, Project Leaders and/or associates in a matrix organization.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships across departments, business areas, and vendors.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Ability to multi-task and participate in multiple large and complex efforts or projects.
• Knowledge of brokerage or financial company processes.
• Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness in work.
• Embraces change and considers different approaches to issues.
• Takes personal responsibility to improve processes and systems.
• Strong understanding of project management concepts.
• Presents ideas, thoughts, arguments, and information persuasively. Seen as credible and trustworthy.
• The capacity to quickly understand a broad range of emerging technologies and the ability to apply and exploit target technology to support firm objectives.
• Knowledgeable in globalization (g11n), particularly with respect to technology design and deployment for a multi-national firm.
• Experienced in system development methodologies and I.S. processes.
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• FORTUNE 2020 – Edward Jones was named No. 7 on the 2020 FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® list.
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• Edward Jones Ranked No. 6 of the 100 best workplaces for millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE Magazine.
• 2020 Corporate Equality Index – Edward Jones joins the ranks of 680 major U.S businesses that received top marks in the HRC Foundations 18th Annual Scorecard on LBGTQ Workplace Equality
• Edward Jones named a top company for training, ranking No. 25 on Training magazine’s 2020 Training Top 125 list – the highest ranking among the financial-services industry!
• Financial services firm Edward Jones has been named one of the 2019 Best Workplaces for Parents by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE magazine. The firm ranked No. 5 on the list of 50 companies, up two spots from last year.
  • The Best Workplaces for Parents list is one of a series of rankings by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE based on employee feedback from Great Place to Work-Certified™ organizations. Edward Jones ranked No. 7 on the FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work for in 2019 list, the firm’s 20th appearance on the list. The firm also was ranked the No. 1 Best Workplace in Financial Services & Insurance and the No. 6 Best Workplace for Millennials by Great Place to Work and FORTUNE.
    

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