Company
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York positions you at the center of the financial world with a unique perspective on national and international markets and economies. You will work in an environment with a diverse group of experienced professionals to foster and support the safety, soundness, and vitality of our economic and financial systems.
The Bank believes in work flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Employees can expect to be in the office a couple of days per week as needed for meetings and team collaboration and should live within a commutable distance.
What we do:
The Supervision Policy and Strategy (SPS) Cybersecurity Department guides, influences, and supports the development and implementation of an enhanced cybersecurity supervision program for the Federal Reserve System (FRS). To this end, the department is organized in two teams:
The Cyber Policy Development team facilitates and contributes to international, interagency, FRS, cross-Bank, and cross-Group efforts to identify cyber policy issues and provides recommendations to strengthen the financial sectors resilience to cybersecurity risks.
The Cybersecurity Risk Analysis team develops, strengthens, and evolves a cybersecurity risk analysis competency focused on the identification, assessment and measurement of business technology and resiliency risks that will enable Federal Reserve Supervision to evaluate and monitor financial sector emerging, current, and systemic risks along with the state of countermeasures.
Your role as Cyber / IT Policy Specialist:
Assist with the implementation of the functions methodology and practices for identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing cyber risks across the financial sector and portfolios of firms.
Apply expertise to ascertain the impact of an attack and analyze threat trends, mitigation techniques and countermeasures to better assess cyber risks.
Develop data-driven analytics to enhance cross-firm analyses that provide insights in systemic, current, and emerging cybersecurity risks and trends impacting supervised institutions and the sector as a whole.
Think creatively and innovatively to identify, collect, and maintain data sources to assess cyber risks in the financial sector.
Conduct research using multiple data sources, perform analysis on financial sector risks and disseminate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Provide and share subject matter expertise of cyber risk management capabilities, emerging cyber risks, and cybersecurity risk management countermeasures, practices, and tools.
Recommend and design policy and standards to prioritize financial sector risks.
Coordinate and collaborate analytic efforts amongst supervisory and intelligence teams during a critical cyber event or crisis
Produce analytics reports through repeatable, data-driven, quantitative methods using all available data to influence the direction of cyber policy and supervisory initiatives.
Communicate to supervisory leaders on cyber incidents and related to the conclusions and recommendations from risk analysis work.
What we are looking for:
Information security and IT risk management experience
Knowledge of current security threats, techniques, and landscape.
Demonstrated ability in developing, implementing, and executing cybersecurity risk assessments.
Experience with data science concepts and methods to harness and analyze sets of heterogeneous data using analytical and visual tools to support data analytics and predictive modeling capabilities. Prior experience with tools such as Python, R and/ordata link-analysis and visualization technologies.
Ability to understand and synthesize technical issues to both technical and business representatives.
Ability to think outside of the box and to learn new approaches to modeling problems with a focus on the practical application of the results.
Team player with excellent consultative, communication, writing and project management skills.
Ability to obtain and maintain US Security Clearance.
Touchstone Behaviors set clear expectations for leading with impact at every stage of our careers and aspire to achieve in our continued growth and development.
Communicate Authentically: Empathetically engage one another with direct and transparent dialogue and listening. Actively discuss viewpoints with respect and compassion in a timely and candid manner, taking into account verbal and nonverbal cues. Ask questions, learn from each other, and share information widely to move the Bank's work forward.
Collaborate Inclusively: Inspire a diverse and inclusive environment that empowers others to contribute meaningfully. Intentionally bring a diverse set of people together to achieve positive business results.
Drive Progress: Grow and adapt to changing priorities in the Bank. Experiment with new concepts and take appropriate risk to drive innovation. Remain curious and action oriented, navigating through ambiguity and uncertainty to drive outcomes.
Develop Others: Equitably champion, mentor, and develop others to grow professionally. Demonstrate vulnerability and empathy to create a trusted environment.
Take Ownership: Establish an environment of action and excellence by holding self and others accountable to execute to the highest standard.
Benefits:
Our organization offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:
Fully paid Pension plan and 401k with Generous Match
Comprehensive Insurance Plans (Medical, Dental and Vision including Flexible Spending accounts and HSA)
Subsidized Public Transportation Program
Tuition Assistance Program
Onsite Fitness & Wellness Center
And more
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is committed to a diverse workforce and to providing equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, disability, or military service.
The successful candidate must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and receive a booster shot within 30 days of being eligible to do so, unless the Bank grants an exemption based on a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief.
This position requires possession of or the ability to obtain and maintain national security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship. Candidates must undergo an enhanced background check and will be tested for all controlled substances prohibited by federal law, to include marijuana.
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change.
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)
The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.
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