Business Information Security Advisor (BISA)

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Focus of the role

Are you passionate about embedding security at the heart of business and technology decisions? Telstra is seeking a dynamic and strategic Business Information Security Advisor (BISA) to champion security outcomes across our functional teams.

What We Offer

• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
• Purchased annual leave scheme
• Additional Telstra day off
• Additional 30% off Telstra products and services
• Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

What You’ll Do

Global Networks & Technology - Security & Operations is responsible for Telstra's security and operations, protecting Telstra's assets and infrastructure.

The Business Information Security Advisor (BISA) is an embedded representative of Security that serves as the security leader that drives security outcomes within a specific Function. As a trusted advisor and a part of the functional leadership team, you’ll play an important role in helping ensure alignment to enterprise-wide security policy.

This role will bring deep, embedded security leadership closer to where business and technology decisions are made. The BISA champions security as front-and-centre of every design decision throughout the lifecycle. They work closely with Executive leaders, Group Owners, Product Owners, Engineering Leads across the function to champion security culture and mindset, ensure the function is effectively consuming security services and understand the demand for security expertise for the function.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the overall technology roadmap, drive alignment and prioritisation of the group/ function security roadmap, and cascade and implement the central Security strategy.
• Develop relationships and implement processes that ensure Security learnings are leveraged across the function in a manner that drives consistency, reduces duplication and streamlines delivery and bring back security learnings to the operational group for sharing across broader organisation.
• Drive continuous security improvement by gathering stakeholder feedback on technology, process, and interactions – creating a feedback mechanism and shared understanding between Cyber Security, Security Engineering and the function.
• Maintain awareness of industry advances in Cyber Security technology and changes in the Global Cyber Security Threat Landscape to provide contextual thought leadership to the function on potential risks and opportunities.
• Provide feedback on areas of opportunity to improve the Group's Cyber Security, Security Engineering, and Physical Security posture.
• Reinforce a ‘Security first’ culture and mindset across the function's leadership team and drive a robust relationship between the Security Advisor and delivery teams.
• Interlock with Telstra Cyber Security Threat Intelligence and Operations teams and escalate potential threats to the functions network, systems, or applications with visibility of the vulnerabilities that could be exploited.
• Leveraging frameworks and data defined by Telstra Security, provide visibility of security risk for the Group / Function providing recommendations to Group Owners / Functional Executives on the prioritisation for remediation of risks.
• Understand where security skills and teaming configurations are required in the organisation (i.e. which teams need security expertise) and integrate with CAL and Security.
• Drive adoption of enterprise security tools, controls, and platforms across teams within the function.
• Provide guidance and context on strategic Security (Cyber Security, Security Engineering & Physical Security) decisions.
• Champion the creation of re-usable engineering / security patterns and promote the use of purpose-built patterns across engineering areas​ and business team.

About you:

You’re a strategic thinker with deep security expertise and a collaborative mindset. You thrive in cross-functional environments and are passionate about building a strong security culture.

To be successful in the role, you must have:

• Security leadership experience
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strategic Thinking
• Influencing Skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Effective communication
• Proven experience as Chief Information Security Officer or Business Information Security Advisor or Security Consultant to C-Suite is highly valued
• All candidates must be Australian Citizens and be eligible to hold a security clearance.

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When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive.

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

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