Director - Cyber Assurance

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The Director of Cybersecurity Assurance leads cyber assurance and advisory functions for the security organization. This role manages a team of security leads overseeing cyber risk management, security architecture, regulatory and audit compliance, and policy development. The Director provides security architecture and advisory support to business and product teams to enforce security by design, and owns the cyber security awareness program, including tabletop exercises and phishing campaigns.

This leadership role requires deep technical expertise in security architecture, advisory, and risk management. The Director sets strategy, roadmaps, and success metrics; governs delivery and reliability rhythms; and drives security outcomes across teams. Additional responsibilities include securing leadership alignment, defining oversight scorecards, ensuring adherence to enterprise policies, and communicating risks and progress to executive leadership.

• Design and own the enterprise Cyber Assurance strategy and operating model, including the build out of the team and developing the intent, direction, and roadmap for the program
• Lead the cyber security architecture practice including building a security architecture program to ensure security by design practices and requirements are embedded in everything we do
• Providing security advisory services to the business and application teams and performing security and threat assessments to identify security control gaps and ensuring the proper requirements are implemented into the architecture design
• Partnering with the Threat Detection & Response leader to implement a Threat Modeling program
• Develop and lead the cyber security metrics and executive reporting processes, including KPIs and metrics
• Establish a remediation program to drive closure of all security vulnerabilities and gaps identified through incidents, assessments, architecture reviews, vulnerability scans; ensure clear ownership, prioritization, timelines, and exception processes
• Lead cyber security risk management activities (e.g. audit, regulatory), coordinate with risk partners on all assessments activities and deliverables
• Design and implement policies, standards, and procedures in partnership with key stakeholders; ensuring governance and reporting processes and exception processes are implemented
• Lead and develop the cyber security awareness program including the development and execution of cyber table top exercises and phishing campaigns
• Lead the cyber security resiliency program and ensure effective incident response and recovery processes are implemented
• Responsible for the development and implementation of an asset management program within the cyber organization
• Lead the third party risk management program and processes including the inventory of third parties, risk assessment process, prioritization of third parties, understanding of risk severity of third parties

Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 15+ years of professional experience and 10+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).

• 15+ years of cybersecurity experience with significant depth in security architecture, cyber assurance and advisory, third party management, cyber grc, risk management and compliance, including 10+ years leading teams and/or enterprise programs.
• Hands-on and leadership experience managing a security architecture program.
• Proven ability to drive remediation outcomes at scale establishing SLAs, clarifying ownership, prioritizing backlogs, and closing systemic gaps surfaced by incidents, hunts, and assessments.
• Executive-ready communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present risk, progress, and investment needs to senior leadership and influence decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy, secure…