Our Company has one exciting mission: To entertain the human race and provide an unforgettable escape. Delivering excellence for our guests, and contributing to building and sustaining our communities, requires collaboration from diverse teams of world-class talent. Our iconic MGM Resorts brands offer a wide variety of exciting career opportunities, each with access to unlimited growth.
Primary Purpose
The Information Security Business Solution Architect will collaborate with business stakeholders to understand information security needs and will work with the Enterprise Information Security Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance, and IAM teams to develop solutions to meet the needs of the business. The ISBSA will also coordinate with Information Security counterparts and leadership to oversee the continuous communication to the business of all Information Security requirements for the design, development, and implementation of Information Security policies, standards, controls, solutions, and services.
This role will also be responsible for ensuring that technical products, platforms, programs, and solutions have followed MGM's Information Security Policies and Standards as well as regulatory and internal requirements including Sarbanes-Oxley, payment card industry standards and Gaming regulations, as well as industry best practices.
- Acts as the key liaison between Information Security, relevant business units, and outside vendors to understand and translate business requirements to functional and technical solutions to achieve commercial objectives
- Owns the business relationship from the Information Security department and serves as a trusted advisor to the defined business stakeholders and systems owners ensuring business objectives, strategy, and interdependencies are well understood, documented, and communicated
- Builds and continuously develops effective working relationships with the relevant business stakeholders to serve as a key decision maker and advisor on strategic business issues.
- Proactively identifies information security deficiencies or opportunities for improvement and facilitates the development of pragmatic solutions.
- Monitors information security trends internal and external to the Company and keeps LOB leadership informed about information security-related trends
- Supports the creation of a technology roadmap by business unit taking into consideration security architecture, compliance, and business process design.
- Leverages risk-based reporting to shape the risk posture and subsequently derive guidance to improve information security adoption across assigned lines of business.
- Identifies and measure information security controls on most critical business processes or channels
- Champions MGM’s Information Security strategy, ensuring enterprise objectives and requirements are communicated and understood by business stakeholders.
- Maintains a strong understanding of the IT environment to manage the threat and risk landscape – application stacks, infrastructure components, and external facing footprint.
- Coordinates information security risk assessments on internal and external services.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ Years of Prior Relevant Experience
- Familiar with IT governance and compliance concepts, practices and procedures, which includes IT General Controls, PCI-DSS, SOX and Gaming MICS (Minimal Internal Control Standards).
- Ability to lead and prioritize in a high-pressure environment
Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
- Strong analytical, data processing and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated track record in the development and deployment to production of increasingly more complex solutions
- Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels in a matrix-management environment (as well as external vendors and service providers)
