Senior Security Engineer, Information Protection and M365 Security
Washington D.C.
- Organization: World Bank Group
- Location: Washington D.C.
- Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
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Occupational Groups:
- Engineering
- Security and Safety
- Closing Date: 2025-08-04
Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 130 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org
ITS Vice Presidency Context:
The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w
ITS services range from: establishing the infrastructure to reach and connect staff and development stakeholders; providing the devices and agile technology and information applications to facilitate the science of delivery through decentralized services; creating and maintaining tools to integrate information across the World Bank Group, the clients we serve and the countries where we operate; and delivering the computing power staff need to analyze development challenges and identify solutions.
The ITS business model combines dedicated business solutions centers that provide services tailored to specific World Bank Group business needs and shared services that provide infrastructure, applications and platforms for the entire Group. ITS is one of three VPUs that have been brought together as the World Bank Group Integrated Services (WBGIS), to provide enhanced corporate core services and enable the institution to operate as one strategic and coordinated entity.
Unit Context
The ITS Information Security and Risk Management (ITSSR) unit, headed by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), is responsible for providing leadership in managing the functions and activities of information security and risk across the World Bank Group, enabling the achievement of WBG’s business objectives. ITSSR enables and facilitates a risk aware culture, ensures that WBG information assets are protected in an effective, efficient, and balanced manner; and IT security and risk management efforts throughout the World Bank Group are coordinated and aligned to the Bank's business and IT strategy. ITSSR establishes and maintains the World Bank Group's IT and InfoSec policies and standards; develops and engineers the WBG’s information security plans and solutions; responds to security incidents; and ensures that the information risks are identified, assessed, and managed in consistent with the overall risk management approach and with the established appetite and tolerance. ITSSR consists of three main units: 1) ITS Risk Management, Compliance, and Policy, 2) ITS Information Security Operations (ITSIS), and 3) Program Management Office (PMO).
Roles & Responsibilities:
The Senior Information Security Officer will have overall responsibilities for executing the work program under the Security Engineering team; as well as for working as an integral part of the ITSIS team in executing ITSSR work programs.
The primary responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:
•Plan, socialize and oversee the implementation of a data access governance program for Cloud and on-premise data repositories.
•Develop policy framework for data repository usage, to ensure compliance with data protection and governance standards over the lifecycle of the solution.
•Oversee directory services security management, including Active Directory and Entra ID.
•Develop strategies for Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, considering entitlement management and governance principles.
•Develop and enforce policies for user access, entitlements, and group management.
•Design, deploy, and manage information protection technologies, including Microsoft Digital Rights Management (DRM), Microsoft Purview, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions.
•Develop operational procedures to monitor and manage data protection technologies ensuring effective protection of sensitive information.
•Work closely with business units and stakeholders to provide guidance on data access management and enforcement of policies, rules and safeguards.
•Propose guardrails that ensure least privilege access to data throughout the data lifecycle, enhancing user-experience and mitigating the risks of controls bypass and Shadow IT.
•Collaborate with technical and non-technical teams to design, present to management, and implement data protection processes and solutions that reduce risks from insider threats and data breaches.
•Design, implement, and securing AI systems, with a focus on mitigating vulnerabilities and defending against data breaches and cyber threats.
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Before applying, please make sure that you have read the requirements for the position and that you qualify.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.
Applications from non-qualifying applicants will most likely be discarded by the recruiting manager.