Head of Technical Security – Chubb

Chubb

Kuala Lumpur

Salary: Undisclosed

Chubb

Technology-Software

Role Summary

The Head of Technical Security for the Asia-Pacific region leads the technical security team and reports to the Regional Information Security Officer. This role involves providing technical security guidance and leadership, including conducting security assessments across applications, IT and business projects, and infrastructure vulnerabilities.

Job Description

The Head of Technical Security reports directly to the Regional Information Security Officer for the APAC region. This role provides technical security guidance and leadership across the region, including security assessments of applications, IT and business projects, and infrastructure vulnerabilities.

Job Requirements

Bachelors Degree from an accredited college or university in Information Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related technical degree.

At least 10 years IT experience, working in a technical discipline.

At least 10 years working experience of security technologies.

At least 5 years experience working in a senior technical role, with exposure to senior management and decision making.

Expert knowledge of security technology, with proven ability to apply knowledge to use case.

Excellent stakeholder management skills, including technical members of staff and senior executives, including stakeholder negotiation and influencing.

Knowledge of project lifecycles, with understanding of project lifecycle methodologies such as Agile, Waterfall and CI/CD.

Proven ability to follow, and implement incident management processes, managing stakeholders and organizing technical resources.

Experience with Identity & Access Management processes.

Extensive understanding of IT technologies such as networking, servers, IOT etc.

Extensive experience understanding application architectures and their security.

Detailed knowledge of securing cloud platforms and applications.

Demonstrated ability to understand and analyze complex business processes and technologies to make sound recommendations to constituents.

Experience interpreting and applying information security standards and frameworks (e.g., ISO/IEC 27001/27002, PCI-DSS, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, etc.).

Experience within the insurance industry or financial services.