Senior Technical Security Lead, Security Platforms (VP)

Senior Technical Security Lead, Security Platforms (VP620) 

Who We Are Looking For 

We are looking for a Senior Technical Security Lead, Security Platforms, reporting directly to the Director of Security Platforms. As the senior technical authority within the Security Platforms team’s remit, you will provide leadership across the team’s portfolio, advise on strategic and high-risk decisions, strengthen governance, and lead the resolution of issues spanning endpoint security, identity protection, security automation, threat detection, exposure management, data protection, and AI-enabled security capabilities. 

As a trusted advisor to the Director of Security Platforms, you will mentor Technical Security Leads and deputise for the Director when required. Success in the role requires sound judgement, deep technical expertise, a customer-first mindset, and the ability to influence decisions across technology, security, and business functions. 

Why This Role Is Important to Us 

The team you will be joining is part of the Global Cyber Security Platforms function, a critical capability responsible for delivering, operating, and continuously improving the security technologies that protect the firm's data, infrastructure, assets, and users. 

This role provides senior technical leadership and governance across a broad security technology portfolio. The Senior Technical Security Lead helps ensure platforms remain secure, resilient, operationally effective, and aligned with evolving business, cybersecurity, regulatory, and customer requirements. 

The role helps shape the future direction of the Security Platforms organisation while maintaining a strong customer-first focus. You will work with platform consumers, operational teams, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to ensure security services deliver measurable value, operational excellence, and a consistent customer experience. 

What You Will Be Responsible For 

In this role, you will: 

• Serve as a senior technical authority across the Security Platforms portfolio. 

• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical, operational, and security issues within the Security Platforms team’s remit, particularly where cross-platform coordination, material risk decisions, or executive engagement are required. 

• Deputise for the Director of Security Platforms when required, including representing the Security Platforms function in leadership forums, supporting priority decisions, and maintaining continuity across critical team activities. 

• Provide portfolio-level technical direction across the security capabilities within the Security Platforms team’s remit, ensuring decisions are aligned across those platforms and support the Security Platforms strategy. 

• Mentor Technical Security Leads and platform engineering teams, strengthening technical decision-making, governance discipline, and consistency across the team’s portfolio. 

• Support the development of platform strategy, roadmaps, governance standards, and operating models. 

• Lead technical evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and assessments of emerging security technologies and capabilities. 

• Evaluate and govern AI-enabled security technologies and security automation opportunities. 

• Partner closely with Security Operations, Cyber Defence, Detection Engineering, Threat Hunting, Architecture, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Audit, and business stakeholders. 

• Champion a customer-focused approach to platform delivery, ensuring services meet the needs of operational teams, technology partners, and platform consumers. 

• Drive platform adoption, service quality improvements, operational effectiveness, and customer satisfaction. 

• Lead root-cause analysis and drive long-term remediation activities for significant incidents and recurring issues. 

• Engage with strategic vendors to influence product direction, support issue resolution, and maximise value from platform investments. 

• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on security outcomes, platform resilience, operational excellence, automation, and user experience. 

• Support regulatory, audit, governance, and risk management activities across the Security Platforms portfolio. 

• Promote engineering excellence, technical standards, operational maturity, and service reliability across the platform ecosystem. 

What We Value 

These skills will help you succeed in this role: 

• Deep expertise across modern security platforms, including endpoint security, identity protection, threat detection, exposure management, security automation, data protection, and AI-enabled security capabilities. 

• Broad cybersecurity domain knowledge spanning security operations, detection engineering, threat intelligence, identity security, automation, investigations, cloud security, and security governance. 

• Demonstrated ability to provide technical leadership without direct line management responsibility. 

• Proven ability to influence strategy, drive technical decisions, and lead through expertise. 

• Strong customer and service orientation, with a focus on delivering high-quality platform services and measurable business outcomes. 

• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with experience resolving complex technical challenges. 

• Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities. 

• Experience operating within large-scale, global, highly regulated environments. 

• Ability to build trusted relationships across technology, security, and business teams. 

• Strong organisational, governance, programme management, and prioritisation skills. 

• Commitment to operational excellence, continuous improvement, and customer-focused service delivery. 

Education and Preferred Qualifications 

A degree is not required for this role, although a qualification in cybersecurity, information security, information systems, or a related discipline may be beneficial. 

Candidates should have 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, security operations, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines. 

Relevant industry certifications are preferred but not required. These may include CISSP, ISSAP, GIAC, Security+, cloud security certifications, or equivalent industry-recognised qualifications. 

Knowledge of Tools and Technologies: 

• Endpoint security platforms 

• Identity security technologies 

• Security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) 

• Security information and event management (SIEM) 

• Detection and response technologies 

• Exposure and vulnerability management platforms 

• Security analytics and threat intelligence solutions 

• Data protection technologies 

• AI-enabled security technologies 

• Security automation and scripting 

• Cloud security platforms 

No additional language requirements apply to this role. 

Other Qualifications: 

• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cybersecurity platforms. 

• Experience leading major incident response and complex technical investigations. 

• Experience defining and delivering security technology roadmaps and strategic initiatives. 

• Experience working with senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams. 

• Experience managing strategic vendor relationships and technology partnerships. 

• Financial services industry experience is beneficial but not required. 

Additional Requirements 

Additional requirements for this role include: 

• Participation in an escalation and on-call rotation as required. 

• Support for regulatory, audit, governance, and operational activities outside of standard working hours when necessary. 

• Occasional travel to support strategic initiatives, leadership meetings, vendor engagements, and team collaboration. 

• Ability to operate effectively within a globally distributed organisation. 

• Ability to balance customer requirements, operational priorities, technical risk, regulatory expectations, and security outcomes. 

• Willingness to continuously develop expertise across emerging security technologies and AI-enabled capabilities. 

Location and Work Arrangement 

This role follows a hybrid working model in accordance with State Street policy. 

Shift Timings: 
Standard business hours with participation in leadership, escalation, incident response, and operational support activities as required.