Senior Vice President, Security Engineering and Administration

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access

to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

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Your Team's Impact

FactSet's Information Security team is responsible for implementation of all security technologies across the Technology organization. The team is responsible for implementing security technologies to support the defense in depth architecture to secure FactSet's systems, data and platforms

What You'll Do

FactSet is currently seeking a Senior Vice President, Security Engineering to lead a growing global engineering and administration function. This team owns all aspects of network security, endpoint security, cloud security and security detection and analytics infrastructure. This individual will be responsible for providing strategic leadership, as well as operational and tactical direction to diverse teams, defining and integrating requirements into security solutions based on multiple inputs such as security target state, hardening environments based on security threats, and partnering closely with our technology and business teams to innovate and implement secure solutions to meet business objectives.

As a security leader, you will participate in the Cybersecurity strategy build out, roadmap planning, project planning and execution, building a team of global security engineers, partner closely with security operations team, and fostering a strong team culture. A successful candidate will have strong strategic mindset to stay ahead of the emerging technologies and threats, robust understanding of product and software development lifecycle, excellent communication skills to deliver the message at all different levels within the organization and demonstrated ability to successfully deliver complex global security projects for a large financial services organization.

This position will report directly to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Required Skills

What We're Looking For

• 20+ years of progressive experience leading, managing & developing high performance global teams.
• Experienced leader who can energize the team and support the peers. Demonstrated ability to hire, train, coach, mentor and retain talent to build a cohesive, high performing global team.
• 15+ years of experience within information security teams with in-depth understanding of security domains: network, identity, infrastructure, cloud, endpoint and data security.
• Experience overseeing complicated, technical programs at global scale and has familiarity with project & product management methodologies and best practices.
• Breadth of security experience across various infrastructure deployment models (cloud, hybrid and on-prem) and cloud security architectures (AWS, Azure, GCP) and zero - trust architecture.
• Experience in evaluating and implementing next generation cybersecurity technologies, such as Agentic AI, AI- Driven detection and response, MCP etc.
• Ability to convert strategy to action by making incremental progress in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge and avoiding analysis paralysis.
• Experience managing 15+ employees and consultants.
• 5+ years experience of vendor management experience as this role requires the individual will be responsible working with a large number of vendors.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions and levels.
• Assess and present infrastructure security risk, solutions and tradeoffs to technology leadership to enable risk-based decision making.
• Strong knowledge cybersecurity frameworks, compliance standards and risk management frameworks (i.e. NIST 2.0, ISO 27001, GDPR, DORA, SOC2 and SOX).
  
  

Desired Skills

• CISSP, CCSP, SANS GIAC, or similar professional certification(s) a plus.
  
  

Education

• Bachelor of Science degree (BS) in Computer Science (or related field).
  
  

What's In It For You

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:

• The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.
• Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.
• Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.
• A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.
• Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.
• Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging. Learn more about our benefits here.
  
  

Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.

The budgeted salary range for this position in the states of Connecticut and New York is $225.000.00 - 250,000.00

Company Overview

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award winner. Learn more at and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

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