Global Director, Vulnerability Management & Security Configuration

Northern Trust

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Chicago, IL
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146 days ago
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About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a leading provider of wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to corporations, institutions, and high-net-worth individuals. Industry: Financial Services & Asset Management

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TL;DR · Global Director, Vulnerability Management & Security Configuration

The Global Director – Vulnerability Management & Security Configuration will lead a lean, high-performing team to define and execute the enterprise strategy for reducing technology risk across infrastructure, cloud, and AI-driven environments. This engineering-led leadership role involves transitioning the organization from traditional vulnerability management to a modern, AI-enabled, risk-based capability. Key responsibilities include managing global discovery, prioritization, and remediation, enforcing enterprise hardening baselines, and implementing continuous monitoring for drift detection. The successful candidate will utilize threat intelligence, exploitability data, and asset criticality to drive automation-led remediation and CTEM principles. Required expertise includes deep experience in vulnerability management, security engineering, configuration management, and DevSecOps integration. This role solves the business problem of proactively managing cyber risk within a complex, scalable, and intelligence-led security landscape.

What you'll do

  • Define and lead the global strategy for vulnerability management and security configuration across infrastructure, cloud, and AI environments.
  • Transition vulnerability management capabilities to an AI-enabled model using risk-based prioritization and automation-led remediation.
  • Operate and scale a global program for discovery, prioritization, remediation, and continuous security configuration compliance.
  • Implement risk-based models incorporating threat intelligence, exploitability, asset criticality, and external exposure.
  • Define and enforce enterprise hardening baselines and continuous monitoring for drift detection.
  • Lead a high-performing team of engineers to foster a hands-on, engineering-led security culture.
  • Deliver executive reporting on cyber risk, exposure levels, and remediation performance metrics.
  • Drive governance activities including exception management and the enforcement of remediation SLAs.

What we're looking for

  • 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity with deep experience in vulnerability management and security engineering.
  • Proven success building and scaling enterprise programs.
  • Strong background in infrastructure and cloud security.
  • Strong background in configuration management and hardening.
  • Strong background in DevSecOps integration with a platform focus.
  • Track record of leading large-scale transformation initiatives.
  • Work Authorization.

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