Lead Specialist - IT Security

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Description:

Marsh McLennan is seeking candidates for the following position based out of either our New York City office or local office in a hybrid schedule.

IT Security Lead Specialist

What you can expect:

• The IT Security Lead Specialist is a business-oriented information security engineering leadership role.
• This position is for a recognized, subject matter expert in Information Security who designs, develops, and integrates security solutions and programs globally across the MMC Shared Services organization.
• The position is fundamentally responsible for enhancing cyber preparedness and protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the firm’s data and intellectual property.
• Work with business and IT teams to drive delivery on the multi-factor, at-rest-encryption, and system logging initiatives of the firm. Review and approve risks and their associated treatment plans. Drive improvement of key risk metrics enabling the business teams to reduce risk to our computing and application systems
• This role supports executive strategies while conducting industry research on new ways improve on existing processes, practices, and technologies.

What’s in it for you?

• Culture of internal mobility, collaboration, and valued partnership with stakeholders.
• Employee Resource Groups which provide access to leaders, relevant volunteer and mentoring opportunities and interactions with counterparts in industry groups and client organizations.
• Full benefits package – starting day one.
• Generous Parental Leave and Tuition Reimbursement plan per year and participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (regional specificity required).
• Generous paid time off, additional floating holidays, time off to give back to your community.
• Multiple medical, dental, and vision plans with choices to fit all needs and budgets.

We will expect you to:

• Executes, drives, and implements key security strategies within Marsh & McLennan shared services organization designed to protect thousands of applications and servers world-wide from threats.
• Designs and implements key controls that reduce security risk and protect the firm’s critical assets. Provides oversight on security programs that drive down security risk.
• Reviews, assesses and signoffs on business projects with respect to risk adherence to security policies, standards, and industry best practices for data protection.
• Drives technical and strategic direction of the IT Security function across all the company globally.
• Maintains and updates complex, IT Security road maps through industry research, knowledge transfer, and continued learning.
• Partners with and provides IT Security expertise to the operating companies; provides guidance and direction on secure application hosting for internal and client facing application systems.
• Assesses applications and …