Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

IT
Lagos
October 30, 2026
Full Time
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Job Description

A leading commercial bank in Nigeria is seeking an experienced and technically strong Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to lead cybersecurity and information security across the Group. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring someone who can engage effectively with the Board and executive leadership while maintaining strong technical credibility with Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE and Security teams.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key Responsibilities
  • Define and execute the Bank’s cybersecurity strategy and roadmap.
  • Strengthen security across applications, APIs, cloud, infrastructure, identity and data.
  • Build effective security operations, monitoring, detection and incident response capabilities.
  • Establish strong application security and secure software development practices.
  • Improve IAM, privileged access, vulnerability management and security controls.
  • Lead responses to significant cyber incidents, including root cause analysis and remediation.
  • Establish security standards, risk acceptance processes and meaningful security metrics.
  • Partner with Engineering, Technology Risk, Fraud, Financial Crime, Internal Audit and regulators.
  • Provide clear reporting to executive management and the Board on material cyber risks and security posture.
  • Build and develop a high-performing security organization.

 

Key Requirements

  • First degree in Business Administration, Technology or a related field.
  • Professional Security Management Certification.
  • 15+ years of technology and cybersecurity experience, with significant leadership responsibility.
  • Experience in banking, fintech, payments or another highly regulated technology environment.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud security, application and API security, IAM/PAM, SIEM, vulnerability management and incident response.
  • Good understanding of modern software engineering, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience managing significant cyber incidents and security transformation programmes.
  • Strong executive and Board-level communication skills.
  • Certifications such as CISSP, CISM or CCSP are beneficial.

 

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to sandra.omage@hcp-ng.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

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