Senior Manager: Security Governance & Technical Assurance at Equity Bank Kenya

Mission/ Core purpose of the Job:

This role is responsible for embedding and maintaining technical security control requirement across the Equity network, infrastructure and systems. Responsibilities include ensuring that appropriate security controls are implemented in the organisation by continuously reviewing and updating the policies, operational technology and security processes and standards in alignment to latest global threats, ensuring optimal performance of the services and identify control efficiencies in how security is operated across all domains. The incumbent will also perform continuous technical security assurance on all Technology service areas to ensure audit compliance and minimized risk exposure.

Context:

1. The individual needs to be able to work in a highly pressured planning and operational banking and technology environment
2. ISO 27001, OWASP, NIST, SANS and POPI
3. Fast changing, regulated business environment.
4. Security is managed cross business and IT functions, in at least 7 markets
5. The Group Information Security area has to deal with the rapid advancement of systems and technology within the following areas:
6. Various Technology platforms enabling many business and banking functions
7. Deal with and environment that is highly regulated and legislated
8. 3rd Parties and the driving of these through supplying vendors fully fledged and detailed specifications and driving them in the fulfilment of these 
9. Requirement for single version of the truth across Equity Group
10. High data volumes