Senior Specialist - IT Security Delivery

JOB PURPOSE: Own build readiness, testing orchestration, and controlled handover, coordinating with the Design team for inputs. Enforce gates, close defects, and produce audit-ready validation packs for assigned programs across corporate and asset IT Security programs. Core Responsibilities: Readiness governance and gates ·       Operate exit-gate governance across environments; verify prerequisites (access, certs, backups, rollback). ·       Supervise Go/No-Go forums and ensure documentation of risks, exceptions, and compensating controls with Cybersecurity sign-off. ·       Maintain change calendars aligned to asset windows and blackout periods. Test planning, data, and environments ·       Supervise the build of end-to-end test plans covering functional, negative, resilience, and integration scenarios. ·       Ensure observer participation (Ops, platform SMEs) for test credibility. Defect, risk, and issue management ·       Manage defect triage; assign owners/severity; track fix SLAs and re-tests. ·       Maintain RAID logs; escalate blockers; quantify residual risk at release. Validation packs and traceability ·       Supervise compilation of validation packs (plans, results, evidence, traceability matrices); ensure versioned storage and approvals. ·       Ensure achievement of first-pass acceptance by QA/Excellence and ensure quick resolution of returns. Handover and run readiness ·       Validate runbooks, monitoring/alerting, and L1/L2 training completion; confirm operational SLOs and DR artifacts. ·       Confirm SIEM/SOAR mappings and case workflows prior to go-live. ·       Stakeholder coordination and communications ·       Facilitate cutover rehearsals; publish comms plans, RACI, and hyper care schedules. ·       Provide weekly readiness dashboards and risk summaries to governance forums. Continuous improvement ·       Track change success rate and checklists accordingly. Security Control Evaluation, POC, and Implementation ·       Lead the evaluation of IT Security controls, technologies, and solutions to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, Cybersecurity requirements, business priorities, and operational needs. ·       Oversee Proof of Concept activities, including scope definition, success criteria, stakeholder alignment, execution oversight, and outcome reporting. ·       Assess solution suitability based on security effectiveness, integration capability, scalability, compliance alignment, operational impact, supportability, and long-term value. ·       Recommend fit-for-purpose IT Security controls and technology solutions based on outcomes, risk reduction value, operational readiness, and enterprise direction.