FedNow Senior Cyber Security Architect

Overview

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine Solutions, FedNow Service, Fedwire, National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash, FedACH (Automated Clearing House), and Check Services. The Federal Reserve has developed a new interbank 24x7x365 real-time gross settlement (RTGS) service with integrated clearing functionality, called the FedNow Service. This position is a unique opportunity to be part of this mission-critical Federal Reserve initiative that is transforming the payments landscape in the United States. The position will be primarily on-site with residency commutable to one of our offices required.

We are seeking a dynamic individual to fill the role of Security Architect & Developer, someone who embraces challenges and thrives in proactively solving them. If you are a self-starter with a passion for unraveling the root of issues, automating solutions, and approaching problems from a holistic perspective, you will help design and implement the backbone of FedNow.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop code to automate security configuration management.
• Build, test, and deploy cybersecurity relevant technical solutions.
• Identify and address the root causes of issues, focusing on solving problem categories rather than individual instances.
• Translate complex problems into manageable, actionable chunks that can be implemented and iteratively improved.
• Utilize expertise in threat modeling to proactively identify and mitigate potential security risks and inform development efforts.
• Represent a technologist's point of view in selecting tooling and solutions.
• Participate in agile activities with geographically dispersed delivery teams.
• Collaborate, build relationships, and influence direct team members in a matrix-management environment.
• Actively seek to remove barriers and improve security across the program.
• Document solutions developed and the supporting processes.
• Maintain a strong interest in current security threats, techniques, and landscape, and continuously research the security information landscape.
• Identify and address root causes of issues, engaging early and comprehensively.
• Submit sound product feature requests to drive the platform forward.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Experience Required

• Ability to program or script in Bash, Python, Java, or Go.
• Ability to utilize CI/CD tools such as TravisCI, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, GitLab Pipelines, or AWS CodeDeploy.
• Understanding of AWS capabilities, focusing on designing secure cloud architectures, implementing robust security controls, and mitigating vulnerabilities based on threat models.
• Experience securing critical workloads in a cloud environment.
• Proven project management skills to lead/direct technical and business teams to achieve goals.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and generate effective and innovative solutions.
• Experience working with the Agile framework is highly desirable.
• Strong communication skills with ability to influence at all levels and simplify complex security topics for decision making.
• Self-starter with the ability to explore and learn new areas and concepts.
• Ability to rapidly produce proof-of-concept code to demonstrate potential solutions.
• Knowledge and experience normally acquired through, or equivalent to, a Computer Science or Computer Engineering Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 37 years of related experience.
  
  

Supervision

• This position will not directly supervise employees.
  
  

Other Considerations

• Periodic travel within the U.S. may be required 1015% of the time.
• This role may require being on-call on a rotational basis to address urgent issues outside of regular business hours.
  
  

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.

All employees assigned to this position will be subject to FBI fingerprint/criminal background and Patriot Act/Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years. For this job, any offer of employment is contingent upon successfully passing a two-phase security screening. The first phase consists of the satisfactory completion of a physical examination (including a drug screening), reference checks, and a security investigation consisting of credit and criminal history checks. The second phase, which might not be complete until after you begin working at the Reserve Bank, is an additional risk-based security screening determined by the risk rating of the position. Depending upon the sensitivity of the position, this phase may include, and is not limited to, work and residency eligibility verification, and personal interviews with the candidate, references, and prior employers. All applicants must have resided in the United States for at least three (3) years.

Full Time / Part Time: Full time. Regular / Temporary: Regular. Job Exempt (Yes / No): Yes. Job Category: Information Technology. Work Shift: First (United States of America).

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