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Ally Financial Careers

General information

Career area
Technology
Work Location(s)
500 Woodward Avenue, MI, 601 S. Tryon Street, NC
Remote?
No
Ref #
19816
Posted Date
05-20-25
Working time
Full time

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule: Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech

In this pivotal role, you will manage, oversee and monitor public cloud security (primarily AWS & Azure), its architecture and design and SAAS applications with a keen focus on risk reduction in the public cloud and SAAS space. You'll be at the forefront of innovation, to ensure our technology landscape is secure and compliant with industry frameworks, regulation and standards. This opportunity will have you partnering with key technology stakeholders to build an enterprise solution, making a tangible impact on our organization's future.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.


The Work Itself

  • Ensure business strategies, plans and initiatives are executed and delivered in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies, procedures with an understanding of industry frameworks/regulations/standards like CSA, ISO, NIST, and etc.
  • Understand security concerns associated with public cloud and SAAS technologies and make practical recommendations for addressing those concerns when planning for, implementing, and maintaining cloud resources.
  • Understand secure reference architectures, frameworks, policies and patterns for the security aspects of the SDLC including application, mobile, infrastructure, DevOps, cloud, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Partner with senior key stakeholders to oversee and monitor the enterprise-aligned cloud security strategic framework, assessing design and providing architectural challenges for secure development and application building.
  • Manage the SAAS security team and program to ensure SAAS applications are secured and compliant to Ally’s security requirements.
  • Identify complex technology problems with sufficient clarity to define objectives and key results needed to address. Proactively identify areas of risk, and drive transformative actions.
  • Support continuously evolving holistic cloud security strategy across various deployment models (SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS).
  • Understand current as well as emerging security threats. Identify appropriate technology capabilities, skills and measures needed to mitigate threats.
  • Understand how the risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
  • Builds a high-performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment and using a coaching mindset and behaviors; communicating vison/values/business strategy; and managing succession and development planning for the team.

The Skills You Bring

  • University degree, preferably in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field
  • Minimum of 8 years’ experience in increasingly senior Cyber Security roles in a complex corporate environment.
  • 5+ years of experience developing, implementing and maintaining security solutions in public cloud. Extensive understanding of cloud infrastructure, services and security.
  • Experience leveraging CI/CD deployment methodologies and infrastructure as code (IaC)
  • Expertise in application security architecture, application security, cloud SaaS/PaaS/IaaS solutions.
  • Understanding of application and product architectures, programming languages, web application stacks, and SDLC pipelines.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate security objectives and concepts to technology and business teams to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead technical teams in a highly complex and matrixed organization. Ability to lead through influence, excellence and example is essential to success.
  • Experience with Workload Protection and Posture Management products an asset.
  • Experience with and knowledge of formal project management methodologies is desired.
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How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:

  • Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).
  • Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.
  • Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.
  • Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.
  • Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.
  • Other compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.
  • To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf
 

Who We Are:

 

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

 

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

 

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at hrpolicy@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.

Base Pay Range: $135000 - $235000 USD
An individual's position in the range is determined by the specific role, the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer. 
Incentive Compensation: This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.
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