DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

Funding Arizona’s future through excellence in innovation, exceptional customer service and public servant-led continuous improvement.

All Arizona State employees operate within the Arizona Management System (AMS), an intentional, results-driven approach for doing the work of state government. Our goal is for every ADOR team member to reflect on individual and team performance, reduce waste, and commit to continuous improvement with sustainable progress. Through AMS, every ADOR team member seeks to understand customer needs, identify problems, improve processes, and measure results.

Division of Information Technology
Address:  1600 West Monroe Street, Phoenix, AZ 85007

Salary: $137,000.00/annually

Grade: 30

Closing Date: 7/24/2026

The Arizona Department of Revenue’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is a visionary role that leads our Information Security organization.

This position serves to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of ADOR information and information systems by ensuring appropriate security controls, policies, standards, and procedures are in place and effectively implemented. The CISO plans, reports, and implements all ADOR and statewide security efforts through the continuous review of industry best practices as well as the statewide regulatory and security requirements.

The ADOR CISO is not a traditional "Department of No" security leader. The ADOR CISO is an enabler, a partner, and most importantly, a builder. As our CISO, they protect the highly sensitive financial and tax data of Arizona’s citizens while actively removing friction for our Business and IT teams. They champion a culture where security accelerates agility, innovation, and continuous improvement.

The CISO has an engineering mindset, a passion for DevSecOps, and believes that the best way to secure an organization is to automate compliance and partner seamlessly with engineers.

Why Join the AZ Department of Revenue?

At ADOR, you are doing more than just securing networks; you are protecting the integrity of the systems that fund Arizona’s essential services. We offer a culture that embraces continuous improvement and innovation, where your ideas for modernizing government IT will be heard, supported, and implemented.

This position may offer the ability to work remotely, within Arizona, based upon the department's business needs and continual meeting of expected performance measures.

The State of Arizona strives for a work culture that affords employees flexibility, autonomy, and trust. Across our many agencies, boards, and commissions, many State employees participate in the State’s Remote Work Program and are able to work remotely in their homes, in offices, and in hoteling spaces. All work, including remote work, should be performed within Arizona unless an exception is properly authorized in advance.

What You Will Do

1. Strategic Leadership & Cultural Transformation
Be the "Department of How": Shift the security paradigm from acting as a gatekeeper to serving as a trusted advisor and partner. When the business wants to move fast and experiment, your default response is, "Here is how we can do that safely and effectively."

Empower the Team: Mentor and elevate existing Infosec talent, fostering a modern security mindset that values collaboration, empathy, and continuous learning. Develop a framework to drive agility in your team to reskill and adapt to the fast pace of change in business, technology, and regulation.

Bridge the Gap: Communicate complex security and risk concepts in clear, business-friendly terms to executive leadership, technical teams, and non-technical stakeholders alike.

2. DevSecOps & Security Engineering

Lead with an Engineering Mindset: Treat infrastructure and security as code. Drive the adoption of automation to eliminate manual security reviews and bottlenecks.

Shift Left: Deeply integrate security into our CI/CD pipelines. Ensure that vulnerability scanning, compliance checks, and secure coding practices are automated and seamlessly woven into the developer experience.

Modernize Defense: Architect and oversee cloud-native security controls, zero-trust architectures, and automat