Director, Security Engineering

Sony Corporation of America, located in New York, NY, is the U.S. headquarters of Sony Group Corporation, based in Tokyo, Japan. Sony's principal U.S. businesses include Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC, Sony Music Entertainment, Sony Music Publishing and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. With some 900 million Sony devices in hands and homes worldwide today, a vast array of Sony movies, television shows and music, and the PlayStation Network, Sony creates and delivers more entertainment experiences to more people than anyone else on earth. To learn more: www.sony.com/en.
 

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

The Corporate Digital Transformation (DX) team's goal is to enable the transformation of SONY, and its component companies into data-driven and AI-driven companies enabled by innovative technology. Information sharing within and across SONY operating companies is critical to these transformations, and success in doing so requires innovation and precision in approaches to information security. In order to encourage and accelerate these transformations, the DX team is also building and operating information systems that enable sophisticated data analysis and cross-company sharing of some of the most sensitive information that SONY handles. These DX systems include complex, state-of-the-art data transformation and analytics platforms, and include high-performance, customer-facing services that will be incorporated into products and services of multiple SONY companies.

Strong, consistent, innovative information security approaches are necessary both within the DX systems, and in the various operating company systems that incorporate the DX services, and that share, analyze, and consume information in the emerging data-driven SONY.

POSITION SUMMARY

The primary role of the Director, Security Engineering is to serve as the lead engineer for the information and product security area of SONY’s digital transformation, which involves leading the transformation and modernization of DX product security architectures in alignment with SONY's strategic initiatives. This is a critical global engineering role in SONY’s DX and security areas and requires substantial technical leadership and coordination within the DX program, and with teams throughout SONY.

This position will be a part of the team responsible for establishing a unified enterprise security architecture, and key security controls and models, and being subject matter experts for various security areas to ensure SONY’s DX security practices and controls constantly improve. The team member will have a good balance of business and technical knowledge and will be comfortable across many disciplines of Information Security, Product Security, and Product Development and demonstrate a strong passion for all three.

The employee will engineer solutions which provide for the protection of some of SONY’s most important information assets and services, particularly those related to cross-company sensitive information sharing and critical common platforms, and work towards the design of solutions which coordinate interactions and processes between the systems which provide that protection. This may include but it is not limited to assessment of solutions available in the marketplace, integration design, and preparing the company for operationalization of security technologies. Similarly, the employee will participate in change management efforts and will frequently be asked to perform advisory functions for both DX and other departments.

The employee will lead the development and maintenance of the deployment blueprints for all security technology to be implemented within the DX environment, as well as supporting the creation of architectural documents required to support budgetary approval processes. This will include the creation of technology architecture diagrams, information flows and processes, as well as requirements for security monitoring, PKI dependencies, and access control. The blueprints will be expected to be reusable across SONY wherever possible.

The employee will be required to work with the existing Product Development groups to understand the systems and applications, integration points and data flows. Documented security requirements, solutions architectures, design specifications, etc. will be created and maintained to ensure the security objectives of the organization are met.

The employee will be an innovative and strategic thinker with an open and collaborative style that fosters teamwork, sustains a learning environment for staff, and works within the Company culture to provide solutions that meet the Company’s joint business and security objectives, including efforts to continue the safe adoption advanced security, AI, and ML technologies.