VP, Security & Compliance

THE OPPORTUNITY 

Dynata is hiring a VP of Security & Compliance to own and evolve our enterprise security posture at a pivotal moment: we are scaling AI-driven infrastructure, migrating legacy platforms to cloud-native architectures, and hardening compliance controls across a global, highly regulated data environment. 

Reporting directly to the SVP of Infrastructure & Corporate Applications, you will lead a team of 6–15 security and compliance professionals, serve as the company's senior-most security executive, and operate as a strategic partner to the CTO, Legal, and Board. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for a leader who combines deep technical security expertise with fluency in AI risk, regulatory compliance, and executive communication. 

Candidates with backgrounds in banking, financial services, or Fortune 500 data-intensive environments are strongly preferred — where AI governance, model risk, and regulatory scrutiny are already embedded in the security culture. 

This role carries formal committee responsibilities: the VP will serve as a standing member of Dynata's Data Governance Committee and AI Governance Committee, and will participate in strategic task forces as designated by senior leadership. The ideal candidate is located in the Eastern or Central time zone to ensure alignment with core business hours and cross-functional collaboration. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

Security Strategy & Governance 

  ▸  Own Dynata's enterprise security strategy — define the roadmap, prioritize investment, and align security controls with business objectives across cloud, corporate applications, and data platforms. 

  ▸  Establish and maintain a Zero Trust security architecture spanning AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. 

  ▸  Oversee threat intelligence, vulnerability management (CVE reduction), and incident response programs. 

  ▸  Drive Cloud Security Hardening initiatives and set security standards within the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). 

AI Security & Risk Management 

  ▸  Build and own Dynata's AI Security governance framework — establish policies, controls, and risk guardrails for the company's growing AI/ML portfolio including MS Fabric, Snowflake, Copilot, and LLM-based tools. 

  ▸  Lead AI risk assessment and model governance aligned with NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and emerging regulatory requirements. 

  ▸  Define controls for LLM-specific threats: prompt injection, data exfiltration via AI, model inversion, and adversarial inputs. 

  ▸  Partner with the EDMS and Engineering teams to embed AI security-by-design in DataHub, lakehouse architectures, and AI product development. 

Compliance & Regulatory Oversight 

  ▸  Own and manage all major compliance certifications and audits: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and HIPAA where applicable. 

  ▸  Monitor the regulatory landscape — proactively identify and respond to emerging privacy and AI regulation in the US and EU. 

  ▸  Manage third-party and vendor risk management programs across Dynata's technology supply chain. 

  ▸  Partner with Legal and Finance to respond to client security questionnaires, audits, and contractual security requirements. 

Security Operations Center (SOC) & Audit Management 

  ▸  Own and manage Dynata's Security Operations Center (SOC) — including 24/7 monitoring coverage, alert triage, escalation protocols, and continuous improvement of detection and response capabilities. 

  ▸  Lead all internal and external security audits — coordinate audit preparation, evidence collection, control testing, and finding remediation across all compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA). 

  ▸  Manage relationships with external auditors, assessors, and penetration testing partners; ensure audit readiness is a continuous state, not a seasonal event. 

  ▸  Drive SIEM/SOAR optimization — tune alerting, reduce false positives, and improve analyst efficiency across Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike, or equivalent platforms. 

  ▸  Establish SOC KPIs and SLAs: MTTD, MTTR, alert-to-ticket ratio, and analyst utilization — reported to leadership monthly. 

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