Top 3 Skills required
• Design, architecture, and implementation of centralized security technology solutions at large enterprises – 5 years
• Operations experience in identity management, key management, or other security domains – 3 years
• Leadership role in the development or delivery of information security services – 3 years
Background Required
• In depth knowledge of key information security domains, including authentication, authorization, access control, and encryption
• Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing enterprise class security solutions
• Familiarity with agile and waterfall development methodologies
• Ability to translate the information security domain to IT and business domains, as well as communicate complex technologies in a clear and concise manner
Preferences
• Security operations experience, such as identity management or key management.
• Previous leadership experience, either through leading teams and/or initiatives
• Success in large corporate environments
Role and Responsibilities
• Internalize the team’s mission and strategies, including key initiatives
• Distill the technical vision for the team, including the future state for our centralized security technologies. This will span authentication, authorization, encryption, and other related services
• Understand our customers; leverage feedback and learning to guide improvements to the information security customer experience
• Gather, understand, and prioritize the business needs for centralized, shared security technology. This will be a comprehensive and ongoing exercise.
• Build and maintain relationships with service customers and key stakeholders. This includes
o representing the team with stakeholders, communicating on behalf of stakeholders within the team, and being the team’s inbound/outbound point of contact
o communicate evangelizing our mission and the value our services deliver
o gather feedback from customers and stakeholders to ensure on-going suitability of service features
o communicating regularly with senior IT leadership on key security metrics and service development successes
• Facilitate and govern the full life-cycle of technical security service components, including
o guiding the technical security control architecture
o approving service life-cycle transitions
• Prioritize and launch service development initiatives,
o interfacing with business and technical stakeholders to define scope
o establishing success criteria
o estimating work efforts
o securing funding
• Seek new business opportunities that are enabled by our services
• Identify potential areas for service improvements, including through
o new technologies and vendor relationships. This also means Influencing selection of security technologies and managing relationships with vendor partners
o partnering with information security research, service development, and security delivery teams
• Assisting in planning for skill, methodology, technology, and facility needs for future services and capabilities
Qualifications - Education and/or experience
• Bachelors degree
• Minimum 7 years of experience in information security architecture or engineering
Qualifications - Other skills and abilities [soft skills]
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to influence and motivate people across a wide range of functional areas
• Strong customer service skills
• Capable in managing conflict and driving win-win outcomes
• Highly organized; prepared to juggle multiple tasks while keeping focus on priorities
• Comfortable switching from big picture to detail oriented activities
• Passionate learner; able to rapidly digest, analyze, and apply new knowledge
