Lead Technology Security Specialist

About our team | Mō te tīma

At MSD, we foster a culture of innovation and collaboration where your ideas and contribution matter. You will join a dynamic team and a supportive work environment that encourages personal growth and professional development. 

Working across MSD’s transformation programmes and strategic investments, the Lead Technology Security Specialist influences the design and delivery of future-state technology platforms, ensuring security considerations are embedded into organisational decision making from strategy through to implementation. 

About the role | Mō te tūnga

As a Lead Technology Security Specialist, you will be accountable for providing specialist, enterprise-wide direction and authoritative advice to ensure MSD’s technology, security and architectural strategies deliver secure, resilient and trusted digital services.

The Lead Technology Security Specialist serves as a recognised subject-matter authority, providing independent challenge, oversight and assurance on complex technology initiatives, security risks and architectural decisions. The role leads the development of enterprise security patterns, promotes innovations, and influences security strategy across government and industry stakeholder networks to strengthen MSD’s security maturity and resilience.   Additionally, you’ll also:

• Provide enterprise-wide advice on technology security architecture, security-by-design and cyber resilience outcomes


• Shape MSD's strategic technology security roadmaps, capability investment priorities, frameworks and architectural direction while contributing to solution architecture and technology designs and patterns, providing assurance for technology investments and transformation initiatives to ensure alignment with organisational objectives and risk appetite


• Influence senior leaders and programme-level decisions on significant technology investments, transformation initiatives and security risk acceptance


• Lead the assessment and resolution of MSD's most complex and strategically significant technology security challenges


• Drive the adoption of innovative security capabilities and approaches that strengthen MSD's long-term security posture and organisational resilience


• Engage proactively across the delivery lifecycle to identify, assess, and communicate security risks early, providing risk-based advice that enables informed decision-making and minimises downstream remediation and assurance issues


• Mentor and develop security professionals and architects, uplifting organisational capability and promoting technical excellence across the Ministry.

What you bring | Ōu pūmanawatanga

• Demonstrated success shaping security outcomes for large-scale transformation programmes, enterprise platforms and critical business services


• Proven ability to influence technology, architecture and security decisions across diverse stakeholder groups in complex environments with competing priorities


• Extensive knowledge of current and emerging security technologies, including cloud security, identity and access management, security monitoring, integration security, API security, data protection and AI security


• Deep expertise in security architecture, threat identification, risk management and the application of security-by-design principles across complex technologies ecosystems


• Subject matter expert level knowledge and understanding of industry cyber security frameworks and standards such as the NZISM, NIST and ISO-27000 (or equivalent)


• Excellent communication and engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear business impacts and recommendations, patterns and roadmaps that inform organisational decision-making and technology investment.

Position Description | He Whakaahuatanga Tūnga

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Salary | Utu-ā-tau: 163,784.00 - 203,820.00