Cyber Risk Metrics & KRI Design Lead

About This Role

This role involves defining, governing, and driving the adoption of enterprise security performance metrics, overseeing the full lifecycle delivery from strategy to continuous improvement. The lead will partner with cyber domain leaders to translate technical security outcomes into business-relevant language for executive leadership and risk committees.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and ongoing evolution of the enterprise security metric taxonomy, ensuring consistent definitions for KRIs and KPIs
• Build and maintain a security metrics library detailing definitions, formulas, risk mapping, and escalation logic
• Define and build repeatable metric operational procedures, including refresh cycles, validations, and approvals
• Maintain and validate dashboards in Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik, ensuring visual consistency and accurate annotations
• Produce recurring executive and operational reporting packages, including monthly security scorecards and risk reports
• Perform rigorous quality checks to validate data integrity, including variance analysis and logic validation
• Establish controls and QA checkpoints to ensure metrics are accurate, consistent, and traceable to systems-of-record
• Partner with engineering teams to automate metric feeds and reduce manual reporting efforts
• Enforce metric governance to reduce "metric sprawl" and maintain documentation

Requirements

• 8+ years in cybersecurity metrics, risk reporting, GRC, or business intelligence supporting InfoSec
• Advanced Excel skills (formula checks, variance analysis)
• Proficiency in at least one BI tool (Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik)
• Expert-level PowerPoint skills for executive storytelling
• Strong understanding of security domains such as SOC/IR, Vulnerability Management, IAM/PAM, Cloud Security, and AppSec

Qualifications

• Bachelors
• 8+ years in cybersecurity metrics, risk reporting, GRC, or business intelligence supporting InfoSec.

Nice to Have

• Prior banking or financial institution experience

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits