Who We Are

Join a team that puts its People First! Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for ten consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.

What We Do

Manages a department or multiple groups comprised of technical team members and managers from varied disciplines. Provide long-term solutions to Information Technology needs, including protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction.

This role is hybrid 3 days per week onsite in Santa Ana, CA.

What You'll Do

• Design, build and drive overall strategy, methodology, and roadmap for the processes, systems, tools, and technologies in support of  Insider Risk, User Behavior programs and process to secure our Data assets.
• As a Director Leader, you will manage, support, and oversee the implementation and development of the Insider Risk Lifecycle processes, User Behavior Analytics in support of multiple Identity programs and Data loss prevention mechanisms in our environment. Drive towards a program outcomes-oriented culture. Fewer order takers and more leadership insights provided. 
• Lead teams for fast-growing cloud services to provide next-generation data security for Network and enterprise SaaS applications such as Box, Dropbox, GitHub, Google Apps, Slack, Salesforce and many more.
• Using User Behavioral tooling to build Identity analytics of understanding of HOW and WHY access is being used.
• Enhance and integrate Insider Risk Program outcomes that support assurance of Data Security outcomes.
• Provide engineering and operational leadership to our global team.
• The primary day-to-day responsibilities include leading the Insider Risk, User Behavior and DLP analysts and engineering teams to design solutions that improve overall security posture.
• Track and report key performance indicators and metrics Identify gaps in controls, processes, systems and recommend solutions.
• Lead team to apply technical skills to recommend, implement, support, improve, and operate information protection technologies.
• Manages the Information Security team comprised of technical team members and managers from varied disciplines. Has significant responsibility for developing the capabilities of senior level staff and managers.
• Authorizes projects, approves project designs and cost estimates. Reports projects’ status and critical issues to IT senior management.
• Sets objectives and priorities and ensures the effective allocation and use of department resources.
• Develops and administers department budget with input from work group managers.
• Develops long-range plan for the department and is a key participant in strategic planning for the IT Operations function. Translates strategic goals and priorities into technical strategies and objectives for his/her department.
• Introduces best practices and ensures the timeliness and quality of his/her department’s delivery of products and services.
• Coordinates activities and efforts among different internal organizational groups, customers and vendors.
• Prepares and maintains job descriptions for positions that report to him/her.
• Writes and conducts performance reviews, provides ongoing performance feedback. Establishes salary budget and approves salary increases. Makes hiring decisions.
• Frequently interfaces with executives inside and outside the company to make operational and project-related decisions, to resolve critical issues, to gather industry and competitive information and to foster a productive professional network.
• Required to perform duties outside of normal work hours based on business needs.
• Results and progress toward goals is periodically reviewed by functional executive.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience implementing security controls in SaaS platforms like Workday, O365, Box.com, SalesForce, etc.
• Experience working with User Behavior products (Securonix) and Splunk.
• Hands on experience with Cloud Access Security Brokers, MCAS, AIP and similar tools.
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