The PayPal Office of the CIO is looking for a talented and highly motivated Director of Corporate Security Architecture with deep expertise across a variety of security architecture domains and the ability to craft and maintain a security architecture strategy and roadmap aligned to PayPal’s Information Security Office policies, standards, and threat profile. This individual will create and lead a team of direct reports responsible for working cross-functionally to design capabilities that protect PayPal’s corporate ecosystem. The leader and team will define, govern, and enforce security architecture best practices for services provided by the CIO organization. They will partner cross-functionally with our Information Security Office as well as leadership and engineering staff across the CIO organization to deliver solutions and mature controls required to mitigate threats.
Primary Job Responsibilities
Collaborate with CIO Leadership and Information Security Leadership to establish goals and target-state security architecture principles designed to keep PayPal and our employees secure.
Lead development of a roadmap designed to achieve and maintain target residual risk levels for the Corporate environment
Lead development, publication, and maintenance of CIO organization focused security architecture patterns and best practices that illustrate the target-state security architecture principles and help CIO personnel to harden their solution implementation and service delivery
Provide thought leadership to the immediate business and technology organization to influence improved control strength, deeper understanding of security essentials, and higher sensitivity to vulnerabilities.
Lead the team to develop a deep understanding of the business domain and enterprise technology inventory to discover potential gaps and develop roadmaps to close said gaps.
Continually analyze the organization to identify unnecessary complexity in existing security processes and procedures; work with service and application owners on mitigation strategies
Possess advanced understanding of the security elements of Cloud, Network, End User, Infrastructure and other elements of a major corporate ecosystem.
Provide regular high-level communications to the executive staff and detailed communications to relevant stakeholders
Lead the team to partner with Security Technologists, Development Managers, Program Managers, Architects, Lead Engineers, and Product Owners in scoping, phasing, and sizing major security capability and product launches
Investigate new security technologies and capabilities followed by putting together business cases for POC or deeper investment
Provide security mentoring to technologists.
The candidate must possess the following skillset:
Must possess a proven track record of developing security solutions vision followed by communicating that vision with decision makers to make that vision a reality
Must exhibit strong leadership and technical skills
Must be passionate about delivering high quality experiences for customers
Must possess a track record of innovation and execution in a high-pressure environment
Make timely, high-quality decisions, based on limited information
Proficient using industry standards and security expertise to establish best practices and strategic technical solutions.
Qualifications
The candidate must possess the following qualifications:
Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant technical degree required.
Bachelor's Degree required, MS/MBA degree or related experience preferred
8+ years management experience in a technical organization
12+ years related experience
Certified Ethical Hack (CEH), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and/or Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) preferred
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