Chief Information Security Officer

About TRS:

Since 1917 the Teachers Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) has been securing better futures for NYC educators. With a pension fund valued at approximately $120 billion TRS serves over 215000 members providing them with retirement disability and death benefit services.

At TRS we seek dedicated professionals who are passionate about their work and committed to excellence. We pride ourselves on our member-centric culture focused on delivering outstanding service and support to our members.

Position Summary:

TRS is seeking a seasoned and strategic Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead and elevate its Information Security and Business Continuity programs. This is a critical leadership role within a well-established discipline; continuity and forward-thinking guidance are essential to ensuring ongoing protection of TRS mission-critical functions.

The ideal candidate is a versatile decisive leader with deep expertise across all areas of information security including policy development risk assessments regulatory audits incident response training and third-party/vendor risk management. The CISO will collaborate closely with IT and business leaders and must be comfortable navigating both technical and strategic responsibilities.

Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer this position leads a small high-performing team within the Risk Management Department and requires a hands-on leader who can make risk-informed decisions under pressure while continuously maturing the agencys security posture.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead and continuously enhance the agencys Information Security and Business Continuity programs ensuring strategic alignment with IT architecture security engineering and operational frameworks in accordance with NIST ISO and applicable state regulatory standards.
- Serve as a technical and trusted advisor on Information Security and Business Continuity to IT Legal and business units embedding security and resilience into systems contracts and daily operations.
- Participate in technical planning and understand impact to organization.
- Conduct and oversee cybersecurity risk assessments vendor risk reviews and responses to internal and external audits.
- Lead and coordinate the end-to-end lifecycle of security incidents from initial detection and investigation to containment forensics and lessons-learned reporting. Serve as the technical escalation point for complex incidents.
- Maintain test improve continuously improve business continuity and disaster recovery plans across critical operations including data backup replication strategies and system failover procedures.
- Supervise and mentor a small high impact team; ensuring coverage for both strategic planning and monitoring.
- Design and enforce technical policies security configuration baselines and automated compliance monitoring across hybrid infrastructure (on-premises and cloud environments).
- Design and lead a targeted security awareness program promoting ownership and accountability across the organization.
- Monitor track and report on key risk indicators (KRIs) threat trends control effectiveness and program maturity metrics.
- Partner with auditors regulators and external partners to ensure compliance and manage remediation efforts.
- Engage with third-party vendors and service providers to assess security status and identify vulnerabilities.
- Stay current with emerging cybersecurity privacy and resilience trends proactively integrating best practices and evolving threats into the agencys strategic roadmap.
- Perform additional related duties as assigned by the Chief Risk Officer.

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Qualifications :

1. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university including or supplemented by 12 credits in mathematics statistics accounting and/or actuarial science and four years of satisfactory full-time experience implementing the provisions of a retirement plan involving the use of mathematical statistical actuarial or accounting computations 18 months of which must have been in an administrative managerial or executive capacity or supervising professionals implementing the provisions of a retirement plan involving the use of mathematical statistical actuarial or accounting computations; or

2. An associate degree or 60 credits from an accredited college or university including or supplemented by 12 credits in mathematics statistics accounting and/or actuarial science and six years of satisfactory full-time experience as indicated in 1; or

3. Education and/or experience equivalent to 1 or 2 above. However all candidates must have 60 credits from an accredited college or university including or supplemented by 12 credits in mathematics statistics accounting and/or actuarial science and the 18 months of experience in a supervisory administrative managerial or executive capacity as described in 1 above.

Additional Information :

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time