Lead Information Security Consultant - SaaS Security Configuration

About the job

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

The SaaS Security Configuration Manager is a leadership role accountable for the proactive management and enhancement of SaaS security configuration practices at U.S. Bank. This role leads a mix of security configuration analysts and engineers and is accountable for defining strategic scope, implementation approaches, and tactical execution of capabilities that establish, monitor, assess, and improve the security configuration of SaaS applications used across the organization.

As a member of the Information Security Posture and Configuration Management leadership team, this role is expected to define security configuration expectations and instantiate monitoring capabilities across a diverse and evolving SaaS ecosystem. The role will partner with Information Security, Technology, SaaS application owners, risk and control functions, and business stakeholders to establish scalable approaches for identifying configuration risk, detecting configuration drift, measuring security posture, and driving remediation.

The successful candidate will be able to organize and mobilize a highly skilled team, communicate prioritized objectives across SaaS technologies to key business partners, translate security expectations into measurable configuration requirements, and communicate program objectives to partners and customers within a large-scale technology environment, with stringent regulatory requirements and diverse business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate SaaS security principles, control requirements, and configuration standards into actionable monitoring, engineering, and remediation activities for the team.
• Develop and maintain a risk-oriented SaaS security configuration strategy and roadmap aligned to Information Security program needs, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
• Define security configuration expectations for SaaS platforms, including areas such as identity and access management, privileged access, authentication, external sharing, data protection, integrations, API access, logging, administrative settings, and security controls.
• Own the execution scope for SaaS security configuration monitoring and posture management capabilities, including onboarding SaaS platforms into appropriate monitoring solutions and establishing sustainable operational processes.
• Establish processes for identifying and evaluating configuration weaknesses, control gaps, configuration drift, and deviations from security expectations.
• Define and measure success criteria for the function, including metrics that demonstrate SaaS configuration coverage, security posture, risk reduction, remediation progress, and effectiveness of monitoring capabilities.
• Partner with SaaS application owners, technology teams, security architecture, identity and access management, data security, and risk functions to prioritize and remediate identified SaaS configuration risks.
• Establish scalable approaches for evaluating SaaS platforms based on their risk, criticality, data sensitivity, functionality, administrative model, and security capabilities, allowing monitoring and engineering efforts to be prioritized appropriately.
• Foster positive feedback loops with technology, business, and security leaders to continuously improve SaaS security expectations and monitoring capabilities.
• Ensure SaaS security technologies and configuration practices support regulatory, compliance, risk-management, and audit obligations within a highly regulated environment.
• Maintain awareness of evolving SaaS security risks and translate emerging threats, technology changes, and platform capabilities into enhancements to configuration monitoring and security practices.
• Build, develop, and retain technical talent with expertise across SaaS security, configuration engineering, security posture management, and automation.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of progressive leadership or technical leadership experience in SaaS security, security configuration management, cloud security, security engineering, security architecture, or security technology management.
• Proven success implementing or leading security configuration, SaaS security, cloud security posture, or comparable security engineering functions.
• Demonstrated understanding of security configuration risks associated with SaaS technologies, including identity, authentication, authorization, privileged access, external collaboration, data exposure, third-party integrations, APIs, and security logging.
• Experience establishing or operating security monitoring across a broad portfolio of SaaS technologies.
• Experience with SaaS security or security posture technologies such as Adaptive Shield, AppOmni, Obsidian Security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks SaaS Security, or comparable platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical SaaS configuration findings into business and risk context, enabling prioritization and informed remediation decisions.
• Demonstrated thought leadership within highly regulated, risk-sensitive, or audit-driven environments.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CISM, Microsoft security certifications, AWS or Azure security certifications, or comparable security credentials.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading technical security processes and teams responsible for configuration monitoring, posture management, or remediation.
• Strong understanding of the SaaS lifecycle, including acquisition/onboarding, security assessment, integration, configuration, operation, change, and decommissioning.
• Experience defining and applying secure configuration baselines or control expectations across multiple SaaS platforms.
• Understanding of identity technologies and concepts including Microsoft Entra ID, SAML, OAuth/OIDC, MFA, conditional access, privileged access, service accounts, API integrations, and third-party application authorization.
• Experience with major enterprise SaaS platforms such as Microsoft 365, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, GitHub, Snowflake, and similar business-critical SaaS services.
• Experience implementing security monitoring and configuration assessment using SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) or comparable technologies.
• Understanding of security configuration standards and control frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-53, and applicable regulatory control frameworks.
• Understanding of automation and engineering approaches used to retrieve, evaluate, monitor, and remediate SaaS configuration settings, including experience with APIs, scripting, workflow automation, and configuration-as-code concepts.
• Strong technical background in SaaS security, cloud security, configuration engineering, security architecture, identity security, or a similar discipline.
• Strong understanding of leadership principles, including urgency, accountability, delivery, relationship building, prioritization, and problem solving.

Location Expectation

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $133,365.00 - $156,900.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.