Application Security Analyst

at  Manulife

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Join our Canadian Segment Engineering team!
Within Manulife’s Canadian Segment, Manulife Bank is seeking an IT/Security Analyst with technical knowledge/skills and a strong analysis and governance approach to join our team.

OTHER EXPERIENCE AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Understand the high level architecture of Banking systems.
• Ability to provide support and response within a high availability environment to handle raised concerns as required. Validate security changes post implementation.
• Maintain continual self-education on past, present, and evolving cyber security threats (Training courses, Security briefings, industry trends and articles)
• Contribute to documentation on Bank security standards and policies that improve Manulife global policies.
• Analyze regulatory requirements for security standard processes.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Post-secondary education (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years related experience as Technical Analyst, or as a Software Engineer with prior similar accountabilities.
• A thorough approach to work with deep technical, analytical, conceptual, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid written and verbal communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills.
• Good analytical skills, copes with varying situations through deliberate analysis and planning.
• Ability to collaborate when clarifying needs to balance business direction/requirements with cost of development and risk.
• Strong planning and organizational skills to self-manage and assist in running delivery schedules for multiple parallel initiatives.
• Tools experience: JIRA, Confluence, Excel.
• Technical tools experience: ETL tools (such as Power BI), experience working with query languages such as SQL, LINQ preferred.
• Technical skills including analyzing data from different sources, understanding various data formats, basic understanding of programming and/or technology infrastructure.
• Confirmed experience learning new processes, technologies, and tools at a rapid pace.
• Ability to use analytical and decision-making skills to offer options and resolve problems in a variety of contexts.

• Governance of Manulife Bank application vulnerabilities (PEN test, Static code analysis, Open-source vulnerability management, VDP findings)
• Conducting meetings, reviewing outstanding vulnerability issues, reviewing with multiple collaborators across the organization to understand issues and clarify impacts to our systems.
• Collaborating with product owners, other analysts, engineers, architects, and other Manulife security and risk teams.
• Maintain documentation on outstanding issues.
• Partner with application currency governance.
• Build up and maintain governance dashboards broken down by application asset.
• Interact with global governance teams, Bank application squads, and business partners.
• Provide governance data to partners and leading Directors.