Director Information Security Engineering Architecture M&A Hitachi Santa Clara

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HDS seeks a passionate and talented Sr. Security Engineer / Architect to support IT and product teams in their effort to Architect, Engineer and deploy secure security solution. The individual will be responsible for uncovering security flaws in a diverse set of technologies. As part of that role, the individual will communicate observations to the Platform or Software Architecture teams and Engineers, endeavor to meet Engineers’ expected outcomes, and ensure the timely delivery of project milestones. The right individual will have the opportunity to guide our Engineers’’ long-term product security strategy and contribute to the overall growth and maturity of HDS’ services. The candidate will act independently, as well as collaboratively with engineers, peers, partners, and managers from IT and multiple organizations to ensure technical excellence and satisfaction.

Additionally, this individual is responsible for M&A Security Information Management activities including due diligence and leading the integration of external group entities into the newly formed Hitachi Insight Group (HIG). Program management responsibilities include defining, planning and executing integration projects according to set deadlines, specific budget, scope and technical standards. This includes identifying People Process and Technologies synergies between the different parties to be integrated, identifying eliminating redundancies, and proposing a resource plan, coordinating the dependencies and efforts of IT team members, internal business partners and third party contractor or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan. Oftentimes this will include evaluating the opportunities to leverage the Shared Service Centers located in HYD and/or Krakow for potential solutions.

· Develop and communicate risk and threat-based plans to drive project priorities using industry accepted risk assessment and threat analysis methodologies.

· Identify opportunities to leverage HDS’ capabilities to further support the different Business units and engineering groups.

· Develop support proposal and shared security service.

· Engage at all point of IT project to ensure Security controls and proper risk management practices are implemented including secure coding, code review, code application scanning as part of the quality process.

· Lead root cause analysis processes based on information about the IT or engineering groups processes, technology, and maturity.

· Develop and present on remediation and mitigation plans to address systemic issues and root causes identified during and between projects.

· Mentor and guide project personnel as needed.

· Manage Information security project timelines, budgets and interdependencies related to integration planning, improvement initiatives, system development/launches, operational systems improvements, and other projects as established by corporate operating plan.

· Ability to plan, execute and deliver high quality Security, Compliance and Risk management projects that solve real business needs.

· Interfaces integrated entities (M&A) management and business units to understand business issues/needs and ensure that client expectations are in line with delivery plans

· Ability to coalesce a virtual team around a common goal and vision, encouraging others to be their best

· Lead cross functional project calls and planning sessions.

· Communicate across functional areas and update project statuses to keep project teams informed of progress and/or significant changes.

· Establish criteria and communication procedures within IT with stakeholder organizations to determine how projects should be timed, resourced, and prioritized.

· Demonstrate ability to successfully distill complex technical information into clear, concise yet comprehensive communication material

· Understand the fundamental company security and risk management strategy and be able to apply that as fundamental pillar of the transformation strategy.

· Knowledgeable with the European privacy laws and GDPR legislation. Able to translate legal requirements from privacy laws into security controls.

· Ability to conduct security and risk assessments and documents findings in a practical and actionable way. Establish clear remediation completion criteria to be used for validation.

· Contribute in the Security organization go forward design and talent selection: Interviewing, hiring; Establishing priorities, goals and objectives for new functions; Defining performance criteria; Allocating workload and setting deadlines.

Qualifications

Work Experience, Skills and/or Education Requirements:
· Minimum 12+ years of project management experience, 7+ + with IT disciplines preferred.

· Minimum 10+ years of security organization experience including a fair degree of security and compliance technical knowledge

· Professional software development experience

· Strong understanding of risk management and information security theory and practical application.

· Able to manage internal and external expectations.

· Able to communicate, guide, and influence a diverse set of stakeholders.

· Able to multi-task and deliver consistently on deadlines.

· Experience identifying and solving root causes.

· Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems with expertise and ingenuity.

· Able to communicate risks and recommendations to Senior Leadership and management.

· Experience working in a team-oriented, global, collaborative environment.

· Demonstrate the ability to effectively manage technical team members in a matrix organization with a strong focus on career development

· Outstanding analytical, problem solving, negotiation and organization skills.

· Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service.

· Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.

· Demonstrate leadership, including the ability to influence all levels of management towards a common goal

· Ability to create and manage project schedules of various levels of complexity.

· Ability to facilitate meetings with strong presentation skills and ability to quickly discern differing points of view versus derailing points of view

· Experience with the delivery of security, risk, maturity assessments programs.

· Conversant in financial management and able to administer budgets across multiple projects and ensure programs meet their requirements for return on investment.


Education:
· Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and training.

· CISM, CISSP, CISA highly desired

· Excellent computer proficiency including MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint and MSProject

· Travel may be required – less than 35% both domestic and international

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