Director, Security Architecture & Engineering

Director, Security Architecture & Engineering

Are you looking for a high energy, strategic, and fast-paced position as a Director, Security Architecture & Engineering? Join Relias, the company changing lives throughout the world by helping healthcare organizations improve their clinical and financial outcomes!

For 11,000+ health care and human service organizations, Relias helps clients deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by elevating the performance of teams. We help organizations across the continuum of care get better at maintaining compliance, developing staff and promoting consistent, high‑quality care. Our platform employs assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with personalized and engaging learning, choosing from 7,000+ online courses that meet accrediting board, state and federal requirements.

We are passionate about our products and our clients; what we deliver and the impact we have on the world is truly something you can be proud to represent. Join us and make a difference.

• Fantastic health and wellness benefits package, including an outstanding 401k match, a flexible PTO program, and a generous and inclusive parental leave policy. Additionally, Relias pays for the employee portion of the monthly healthcare premium!
• Flexible work environment with onsite and work from home options – you choose when you want to come into the office!
• Active Employee Resource Groups open to all employees!
• Comprehensive onboarding program – a great introduction to our company, customers and culture!
• Growth and career advancement opportunities!
  • Promotes internal mobility and career growth aligned with evolving business needs
  • Multiple development program options – leadership development, professional development curriculums, and Nanodegree options in both technology and data science
  • Professional development gained from conference attendance and participation in organizations like NC Tech
  • Onsite 321 Coffee Shop providing free coffee and pastries to employees

The Director of (Cyber) Security Architecture and Engineering is a cyber leadership role responsible for establishing, operationalizing, and continuously maturing the organization’s security architecture and engineering capabilities in support of business strategy, technology transformation, and enterprise risk management objectives. This role provides strategic and hands‑on leadership across security architecture, secure design, platform security engineering, cloud and application security enablement, and security tooling integration.

The Director partners closely with technology, product, infrastructure, privacy, risk, compliance, legal, and business stakeholders to ensure security requirements are embedded into enterprise architecture, software development, infrastructure modernization, and third‑party technology adoption. The role is accountable for defining security patterns and standards, guiding security‑by‑design practices, overseeing engineering roadmaps, and building a scalable team capable of reducing enterprise risk while enabling business growth, resilience, and regulatory readiness.

• Lead the strategic direction, operating model, and maturity roadmap for the security architecture and engineering function.
• Define and maintain enterprise security architecture principles, reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards aligned to business objectives and risk tolerance.
• Oversee the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of security technologies supporting identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and infrastructure security capabilities.
• Partner with enterprise architecture, infrastructure, Dev Ops, cloud, and software engineering teams to embed security‑by‑design and secure‑by‑default practices into technology solutions and delivery processes.
• Review and approve security architecture for major systems, platforms, integrations, and transformation initiatives, including cloud services and third‑party technologies.
• Direct security engineering activities related to control implementation, automation, integration, tuning, and…