Director, IT Security - IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance

L3

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L3

Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title: Director, IT Security - IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Job Code: 47359

Job Location: Melbourne, FL (On-Site)

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Director, IT Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) is responsible for leading L3

Harris information security governance, risk management, and compliance programs. This role establishes and maintains the frameworks, policies, standards, and control processes necessary to protect information assets, support business operations, and ensure compliance with applicable regulatory, contractual, and industry security requirements. The Director partners closely with cybersecurity, IT, legal, privacy, internal audit, enterprise risk, and business leadership to strengthen the organization’s security posture and reduce risk exposure.

Essential Functions:

• Lead the strategy, development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the IT Security GRC program.
• Establish and maintain information security governance frameworks, policies, standards, procedures, and control objectives.
• Lead compliance programs aligned to frameworks such as CMMC, NIST 800-171, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF, PCI‑DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, and other industry standards.
• Direct security risk management activities, including risk identification, assessment, treatment, exception management, and reporting.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of the information security risk register and remediation tracking processes.
• Ensure compliance with applicable information security laws, regulations, contractual obligations, and industry standards.
• Partner with cybersecurity and IT teams to evaluate and strengthen technical, administrative, and operational controls.
• Provide oversight for security audits, assessments, certifications, customer questionnaires, and regulatory examinations.
• Lead third-party security risk management, including vendor assessments and ongoing monitoring of external service providers.
• Develop and report key risk indicators, compliance metrics, dashboards, and executive-level updates for senior leadership and board stakeholders.
• Oversee policy exception processes, risk acceptance workflows, and corrective action tracking.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation from a governance and compliance perspective.
• Monitor the regulatory and threat landscape to identify emerging cybersecurity risks and compliance impacts.
• Drive security awareness, policy communication, and compliance training initiatives across the organization.
• Collaborate with legal, privacy, HR, procurement, and business stakeholders to align security governance with enterprise objectives.
• Manage GRC technologies, workflows, evidence repositories, and documentation to ensure audit readiness and operational efficiency.
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing GRC team.
• Present security risk, compliance status, and strategic recommendations to executives,…