Senior Security Consultant at Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington

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SENIOR SECURITY CONSULTANT

Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Location: Wellington, Christchurch
Business Group: Workplace Services He Ringa Manaaki
Branch: Organisational Capability and Services
Salary: (Band IT - J) $114,312 - $153,245

About the role:

Te Tari Taiwhenua DIA are looking for a Senior Security Consultant to work collaboratively within the Workplace Services Group and across DIA branches.

The role provides expertise to DIA Branch's to develop and implement resilient and effective ICT business services that are aligned with DIA requirements, legislation and government regulations. They champion security by design, provide specialist advice and lead the delivery of effective security outcomes across business services, investment and improvement opportunities. The work ensures that security is embedded in the delivery of business services or change initiatives throughout DIA.

Key Responsibilities:

DIA Capability and maturity uplift

• Contribute ICT security domain expertise to the development of enterprise, domain and solution strategies and architectures
• Develop a strong understanding of each DIA branch business model, including business drivers, strategies, outcomes and strategic partner relationships
• Contribute to branch planning, development of business cases, strategies and roadmaps to uplift security and safety capability and improve delivery of DIA services.
• Provide security system certificate and accreditation, risk assurance activities and the delivery of security, safety and risk advice on behalf of the business owners.
• Provide strategic advice on all matters pertaining to ICT security and safety management to key business stakeholders and technology partners
• Serve as a primary point of contact to facilitate the initiation and development of branch initiatives and investments, providing security planning advice to the business, architects and technology partners
• Manage and oversee the delivery of appropriate and effective security outcomes and advice across these investments, at program and individual project level

Innovation and continuous improvement

• Track developments and changes to business services and threat models, to ensure that these are understood by stakeholders and opportunities or risks addressed through effective planning
• Keep abreast of emerging ICT security and safety trends across your selected portfolio or domain and provide strategic advice to senior stakeholders
• Contribute to the development of effective Security, Risk and Resilience policy and guidelines that align with government requirements
• Actively contribute to the Workplace Services Group strategy, planning and improvement activities.
• Collaborate with other security practitioners to develop security plans and roadmaps that support the ongoing improvement and delivery of Branch outcomes and the DIA four-year plan
• Influence across your selected portfolio or domain specialisation to ensure that improvements are made to the practices and methodologies supporting DIA Security and Safety capabilities
• Proactively seek feedback and share lessons learned to inform improvements to the practices and methodologies supporting Security and Safety capabilities.

Stakeholder and Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain productive and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, within DIA, Government and ICT Partners to support achievement of our team and DIA outcomes.
• Proactively work to promote an agile and responsive culture within the practice and to position the team as trusted advisors to the business.

Key Requirements:

Demonstrate experience in:

• A broad knowledge across a range of security and safety domains or specific deep domain expertise, including practical application of security and safety in support of business outcomes
• Experience providing security expertise across technical delivery teams, vendors and service providers and to business stakeholders
• Demonstrated capability to deliver high quality security and technology artefacts that align with stated business needs and requirements
• Experience in a security role particularly in a complex environment with multiple commercial and government stakeholders
• A proven track record in proactively contributing to the delivery of business solutions in a service orientated organisation and a demonstrable commitment to excellent customer service
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in a comparable role or show solid next step readiness
• Excellent stakeholder engagement abilities with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience in vulnerability management tools and passive scanning

What You'll Need to Be Successful:

• Comprehensive understanding of strategic and business planning aligned to security outcomes and the implementation of technology to accomplish business change
• Knowledge of business re-engineering principles and processes
• A broad knowledge across a range of security and safety domains or specific deep domain expertise, including practical application of security and safety in support of business outcomes

Skills:

• Expertise in bringing people with opposing views together, and steering debates towards pragmatic solutions and a win: win outcome, applied at the most senior levels of the organisation
• Ability to quickly acquire a deep understanding of the nuances of the business, to time engagement right, influence thinking and communicate complex and technical concepts to different audiences.
• A flexible approach and responsiveness to new ideas and activities, demonstrated by willingness to take on new challenges, roles and responsibilities.
• Strong analytically, particularly the ability to think about and apply solutions to meet DIA's business outcomes and strategies.
• Ability to apply abstract concepts in innovative ways to solve business and technology problems.
• Willingness to continually upskill, including learning new technologies
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills, including strong stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills
• Hands-on experience implementing security solutions

Professional Qualifications / other requirements:

• A relevant tertiary / industry recognised qualification and certifications
• The ability to obtain and maintain a CONFIDENTIAL security clearance - to check your eligibility use the PSR Eligibility Tool

Opportunities:

This role has great career opportunities with personal development supported and benefits including:

• Training as well as opportunities for paid certification
• Work/life balance
• Westpac's 'Government Employee Pac'
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Vision Care
• DIA Mentoring Scheme
• Social Scene / Sports Teams
• Wellness benefits

Discounts on health insurance

Applications close: 5pm, 23 September 2023
For more information please contact: Karl Orchard, Karl.Orchard@dia.govt.nz
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