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Director, Information Security Office Consultant

Job in McLean, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
Listing for: Capital One
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-19
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Cybersecurity, Information Security & Data Protection, IT Consultant
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 269100 - 307200 USD Yearly USD 269100.00 307200.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Director, Information Security Office Consultant

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and risk-conscious delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Cyber Security Professionals who are passionate about evaluating cyber capabilities, threat intelligence, and risk management to join our team.

In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving cybersecurity governance, capability maturation, and risk transformation across Capital One.

What You’ll Do
  • Provide strategic leadership and coaching to senior managers and associates, setting direction, developing talent, and building a high-performing cybersecurity organization
  • Serve as a cybersecurity subject matter expert and advise on best practices in risk reduction through the configuration of cybersecurity tools and platforms
  • Support the development, modification, and use of capability, risk, and/or threat classification frameworks and standardization methodologies to facilitate the conduct of correlative capability, maturity, and effectiveness evaluations
  • Support the development, implementation, and execution of continuous improvement programs, including risk and issue identification, corrective action implementation, and results validation
  • Support the identification and operationalization of cross-programmatic linkages among a.) threats and risks, b.) controls, capabilities, and tooling, and c.) data analytics in order to facilitate initiative prioritization and decisioning on spending and resource allocation
  • Lead solutioning for, and manage activities in response to, large-scale enterprise risk reduction efforts
  • Effectively communicate the impact of identified operational, compliance, process, control, and tooling gaps and potential remediation courses of action to multiple audiences, including leadership, to support the enhancement of their cybersecurity postures
  • Oversee enterprise-level cybersecurity risk assessments and maturity evaluations, ensuring integration of results into strategic planning and business decision-making
  • Direct cross-functional cyber governance initiatives to align risk management, engineering, and compliance functions with organizational strategy
Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • At least 9 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology
  • At least 8 years of experience evaluating, contributing to, or supporting development of cybersecurity capabilities
Preferred Qualifications
  • 9+ years of experience with cybersecurity frameworks and concepts such as NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC, FedRAMP, etc.
  • 9+ years of experience performing analysis of or developing solutions for cyber threats, vulnerabilities, risks, or, events
  • 9+ years of experience working on teams and presenting to stakeholders cybersecurity information such as metrics, threat intelligence, controls or requirements
  • 8+ years of experience working in multi-cloud environments
  • 8+ years of experience using security tools (e.g., Splunk, Crowdstrike, Qualys, or AWS Security Hub)
  • 6+ years of experience with data ecosystems, applications, privacy, and compliance
  • 6+ years of experience with API Security
  • 5+ years of experience with Data Lake and Consumption Tools
  • 5+ years of experience with File Transfer systems
  • 5+ years of experience with integrating SaaS products into an Enterprise Environment
  • 5+ years of people management experience
  • 4+ years of experience developing or interpreting cybersecurity metrics or dashboards
  • 4+ years of experience developing and overseeing cybersecurity or technology…
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