Cyber Security Exposure Associate Director

Job Description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

The Information Technology group delivers secure, reliable technology solutions that enable DTCC to be the trusted infrastructure of the global capital markets. The team delivers high-quality information through activities that include development of essential, building infrastructure capabilities to meet client needs and implementing data standards and governance.

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

• Lead the design and delivery of cyber exposure management capabilities that bring together vulnerability, application security, cloud, and asset risk data.
• Support frontier-model AI security scanning programs, including testing strategies, scanning harnesses, orchestration, model integration, control points, human review, and evidence capture.
• Advance the AI VDR operating model by connecting continuous, lower-cost scanning with targeted deep-assurance testing for higher-risk systems.
• Establish repeatable methods to validate findings, reduce duplicate results, prioritize remediation, and measure exposure reduction.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, engineering, architecture, risk, and control teams to integrate security scanning into development and operational workflows.
• Provide leadership for vulnerability management and application security management, including governance, remediation oversight, exception handling, reporting, and risk-based prioritization.
• Define requirements and guardrails for secure use of AI models and external scanning capabilities, including isolation, access, approvals, data handling, auditability, and operating limits.
• Evaluate security platforms, scanning technologies, and internal or third-party harness components based on effectiveness, scalability, integration, control coverage, and cost.
• Convert technical findings into clear risk decisions, implementation plans, and executive-level reporting.
• Mentor engineers and influence delivery teams without relying solely on direct authority.

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred and/or equivalent experience

• Strong experience in cyber exposure management, vulnerability management, application security, or security engineering.
• Knowledge of application and software security testing, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, penetration testing, and secure development practices.
• Experience integrating security tools with software delivery pipelines, cloud platforms, application inventories, ticketing systems, and reporting platforms.
• Understanding of AI and large language model security, AI-assisted testing, agentic workflows, model evaluation, prompt and tool abuse risks, and responsible human oversight.
• Ability to design or lead automation using application programming interfaces, scripting, workflow orchestration, and data integration.
• Experience with risk-based prioritization that considers technical severity, exploitability, asset criticality, business impact, and compensating controls.
• Strong governance and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to work across cybersecurity, technology, risk, legal, audit, and business teams.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex technical issues to senior leaders.