Company

Cox Automotive - USA

Job Family Group

Information Technology

Job Profile

Director, Cybersecurity

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 25% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $159,400.00 - $265,600.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Director of Integrated Cybersecurity Architecture is responsible for leading a team of integrated cybersecurity architects that evangelize to all product and engineering teams the agreed upon cybersecurity architectural principles, standards, and design patterns, and advise teams how to build secure products and enterprise tools for all of Cox Automotive’s multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This role is focused on leading a team of cybersecurity architects that are integrated members of the product and engineering teams. A separate function defines the architecture guidelines that this role is responsible for advising the product and engineering teams on how to implement.

This leader’s organization will partner with all domestic product and engineering teams to identify unique cybersecurity risks to a product or enterprise tool using threat modeling and collaboratively design controls to mitigate the risks. This role is also responsible for clearly articulating the why, what, and how to adopt cybersecurity architectural guidelines. A successful candidate will have deep cybersecurity knowledge in the designing and building of secure software products and tools for multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

This role will report directly to the AVP of Security Architecture and Engineering at Cox Automotive.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead a team that is integrated with and in continuous contact with engineering teams to advise on the cybersecurity risk of their architecture decisions and assist with cybersecurity control implementation.
• Engage with Product, Engineering, Legal and other leaders to ensure security considerations underpin decisions about new technology, systems, network and related programs / projects.
• Serve as the cybersecurity lead on large-scale workload and component development, engage with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders to ensure mutual understanding, ongoing communication and alignment of outcome expectations.
• Drive discussion with product and engineering teams on the adoption of cybersecurity guidelines.
• Establishes and oversees repeatable processes and procedures for gathering, assessing and reporting on current and future threats and vulnerabilities.
• Lead workshops to develop threat models for products and enterprise tools and assist teams in identifying solutions to mitigate against threats.
• Designs and implements strategies and security initiatives to assess and improve virtual, physical, technical and process safeguards and controls.
• Guarantees security reviews and processes are incorporated into existing and proposed systems.
• Engage with cybersecurity peers to create a cohesive cybersecurity department and share back internally regarding business specific activities. Act as the on the ground cybersecurity security representative to the product and engineering teams.
• Participate in security events and incident response to identify gaps in current design and propose solutions to prevent threats from reoccurring.
• Educate and mentor product and enterprise architects and engineers on cybersecurity best practices and standards.
• Partner with the legal and security governance, risk and compliance teams to ensure that cybersecurity architecture enables compliance with relevant regulatory and contractual requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years of experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years of experience; a Ph.D. and 5 years of experience in a related field; or 14 years’ experience in a related field.
• At least 8 years focused on cybersecurity.
• At least 5 years in a people leader role directing and reviewing people’s performance.
• At least 3 years of direct experience with designing, securing, or operating AWS infrastructure and services.
• Clearly articulate the objective of specific cybersecurity policies and procedures to technical and non-technical