SVP, Head of Security Technology

SVP, Head of Security Technology

W. R. Berkley Corporation is a corporate holding company with more than 60 businesses, including Berkley Technology Services (BTS) – a specialist in secure and scalable technology solutions.

The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

• Primary location:
  Wilmington, DE.
• Travel:
  Domestic and international travel up to 30–40% as required.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related discipline. Equivalent experience and/or alternative qualifications will be considered.

Lead the modernization and delivery of the enterprise’s core cybersecurity technology capabilities through an AI-enabled, automation-first, engineering-led model. Reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

Accountable for evolving and integrating:

• Security Architecture
• Security Engineering
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Continuous Threat and Exposure Management (CTEM)

Transform legacy, siloed security functions (e.g., Vulnerability Management, Attack Surface Management, Application Security) into a scalable, intelligence-driven security ecosystem that:

• Reduces enterprise risk through engineering and automation
• Embeds security into enterprise architecture and technology platforms
• Strengthens identity lifecycle governance and compliance
• Enables continuous, risk‑based exposure management
• Improves efficiency, control effectiveness, and compliance readiness
• Drives alignment between cybersecurity capabilities and business risk priorities, ensuring security investments directly support enterprise resilience, customer trust, and growth objectives

Lead strategic execution across a multidisciplinary security team, including directors, managers, architects, engineers, and analysts across multiple security technology disciplines.

• Define enterprise security architecture strategy, standards, and roadmaps
• Embed secure‑by‑design principles across cloud, applications, data, and AI
• Establish reusable design patterns and reduce exception‑based approvals
• Integrate security into transformation and modernization efforts
• Lead Zero Trust security architecture strategy and adoption across identity, network, application, and data layers
• Establish reference architectures for multi‑cloud and hybrid environments, including CNAPP, CIEM, and data protection controls

• Lead engineering and lifecycle management of security platforms and controls
• Establish automation‑first operations (API, orchestration, policy‑as‑code)
• Standardize tooling and reduce manual processes through automation
• Improve platform resilience, telemetry, and service performance
• Transition to a product and platform‑based security engineering model with defined service ownership, SLAs, and performance metrics
• Drive rationalization of security tools and vendors to reduce cost and complexity while improving capability coverage

• Lead and own overarching IAM strategy and lifecycle governance, including:
• Provisioning (joiners), Access changes (movers), De‑provisioning (leavers)
• Enhance user access reviews and certifications
• Implement, enhance and automate segregation of duties (SoD) monitoring and governance
• Design and implement role and entitlement management capabilities
• Enable access‑related compliance and audit readiness in preparation for continuous control monitoring and assessment in alignment with Governance Risk and Control Function
• Ensure least privilege, timely access removal, and reduction of orphaned accounts
• Integrate IAM with HR, applications, and enterprise platforms
• Enhance privileged access management and management of non‑human identities in preparation for advanced agentic AI capabilities
• Advance privileged access, machine identity, and non‑human identity security in support of automation, cloud, and AI use cases
• Implement identity‑centric Zero Trust controls and continuous authentication models

• Transform vulnerability, attack surface, and application security into a unified CTEM function
• Impl…