Principal Cyber Risk Management Architect (Infrastructure/Cloud) - Remote at Delta Dental of California in San Francisco, California

Job Description:

At Delta Dental, our strategy is only as strong as the people who execute it! We are hiring individuals that are not just right for today but also for our future. We have built a foundation of high-trust by treating all people with dignity, making and keeping commitments, and consistently striving to do the right thing. Our leaders optimistically share future possibilities to inspire and motivate others toward their full potential. We expect our employees to find ways to embrace positive change, be curious and challenge the status quo, and provide solutions to unmet problems. Joining Delta Dental means joining a culture focused on fostering development, building genuine connections, recognizing each other's strengths and sharing in successes.
This position is responsible for providing leadership, expertise and guidance related to the establishment, communication, and realization of Security Architecture - driving business-aligned strategic change within the organization. This is an enterprise position with responsibility for leading, mentoring, coaching and advising other architects and senior IT leaders on best practices related to security architecture along with influencing the organization to move towards the defined future state. Act as a thought leader to provide overall direction and guidance in the definition of the current and future state architectures, including developing strategies, roadmaps, principles, standards, and best practices that align with business objectives.
This role is also responsible for envisioning, designing, and delivering services related to technical security and acceptable use platforms. This includes continued improvement, measurement, and communication of the services to key stakeholders. This person must be able to draw from a deep background in enterprise technology and security principles and solutions, as well as their understanding of the business, to clearly articulate and discuss identified business risks and various options for mitigating those risks. Communicates security risks and solutions to business partners and IT staff as needed.

How you will make an impact:

• Envisions, defines, designs, builds and delivers to customers and stakeholders services to plan and develop reusable technical security platforms, develop and sustain secure IT solutions, instill threat resilience and appropriate use behaviors in IT solution users, develop survivable/highly available IT solutions, plan for technology and facility survivability/continuity risk events.


• Mentors a team of senior security architects to develop/maintain future state vision for reusable technical security and appropriate use enforcement platforms, create a risk-based investment roadmap, align the vision and roadmap with business desire to take advantage of emerging technologies, develop business cases for specific investment projects, collaborate closely with the enterprise IT architecture area in designing enterprise security architecture, design, build, and implement the platforms, and transitioning them to operations.


• Develops and continuously evolves the organization's processes/methodologies, structure, culture, skills/experience, process support tools, knowledge resources, and other components.


• Establishes and maintains strong working relationships with industry peers and other external stakeholders including federal/local law enforcement agencies, industry organizations/consortia.


• Actively engages in driving strategic initiatives, and the related goals, to ensure the most optimal outcome.


• Consults with IT Services, aligns infrastructure and operations plans to the defined future state, and identifies opportunities to modify/mature the architecture to accommodate changes


• Communicates the status and accomplishments of the organization's technical security activities and projects to company's executive leaders, peers in the IT organization, customers and stakeholders.


• Partners closely with the Compliance and Audit teams ensure adherence to all applicable legal, regulatory and contractual requirements in all activities of the organization.


• Instills and promotes a strong results-oriented culture centered on business value creation, collaboration, commitment, merit-based recognition, personal development and external benchmarking.


• Promotes the company's image as a leader in setting strategy and developing services and capabilities as compared to competitors and peers in other industries.


• Shares leading practices and lessons learned in managing customer engagements, delivering services, and operating solutions with industry peers, other industries, professional consortia, and relevant government organizations.

What we look for:

• Complete architecture-level understanding across infrastructure security domains including network, server, user endpoints, mobile, databases, and cloud.


• Complete architecture-level understanding of all major information security and appropriate use enforcement technology solutions including trust based network segmentation, mobile device virtualization/MDM, cloud security management, structured and unstructured database encryption, mobile application and remote API security, fine-grained application authorization and access control, security event visualization, big data user and entity behavior analytics, secrets management and others.


• Advanced understanding and experience in at least one modern programming language such as Java (preferred), C++, C#, or Python, and mastery of object-oriented design and programming.


• Experience with Cloud computing platforms (Microsoft Azure preferred)


• Expert in executing enterprise architecture and software development life cycle methodologies.


• Ability to communicate and negotiate at leadership level on the target enterprise architecture and roadmap.


• Interpersonal and leadership skills that demonstrate collaboration, facilitation, negotiation, conflict management and influence.


• Experience in managing several (2 to 4) concurrent large-scale enterprise wide information technology capability development projects.


• Deep understanding of and prior hands-on experience in all major information security, appropriate use, and survivable system engineering functions and activities including policy setting, vulnerability/risk research, security/availability architecture, system security/survivability engineering, incident response, cyber risk operations, cyber risk audit/compliance.


• Externally recognized information security industry thought leadership and innovation accomplishments.


• Strong skills and experience in designing and documenting complex processes, and identifying and eliminating deficiencies in existing process designs.


• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and/or experience


• A minimum of 10 years related work experience.

Benefits and perks:

• 12 days starting vacation plus 12 holidays and your birthday off!


• Multiple medical insurance options: 100% paid or low cost premiums


• 100% paid dental insurance


• 100% paid vision insurance


• Employee well-being program


• Culture of learning: substantial tuition reimbursement to improve your skills


• Career growth: we love promoting from within


• Strong commitment to work/life balance


• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities

Due to COVID-19, there is an even greater demand for flexibility and change. Due to the pandemic, the expectation around work location for certain roles may be remote until a future date, determined by Delta Dental Management. Should the position you seek be determined by Delta Dental Management as "remote," the position may require you to have access to remote internet in order to meet the expectations outlined in the job duties.
Please note, Delta Dental will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
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At Delta Dental we:Promote accountability, integrity and collaboration: Our employees are collaborative, self-aware, and ethical. It is our expectation to do the right thing and follow through on commitments.Foster professional development: Our employees take ownership of developing themselves and others through coaching, mentoring and providing/being open to constructive feedback and identifying learning opportunities.Value customers and cultivate positive experiences: Our employees take time to build rapport with customers, while anticipating and exceeding their needs to ensure positive outcomes.
If you think this sounds like you, let's chat. We would love to tell you more!
To see some of the smiling faces behind Delta Dental and to learn more about what our values and culture look like in action, connect with us on social media: @lifeatddins on Facebook and Instagram, @deltadentalins on Twitter, and Delta Dental Ins. on LinkedIn. ABOUT Delta DentalDelta Dental covers more Americans than any other dental benefits provider. Our vision is to motivate and empower every employee so we're all inspired to take exceptional care of our customers, providers and each other. Our Enterprise Strategy focuses on pillars of Growth and Diversification, supported by the platforms of Culture and People, Process and Technology. Our employees take pride working for a purpose-driven organization and live our values of Trust, Service, Excellence and Innovation. We are part of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 74 million people in the U.S. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania and Delta Dental Insurance Company, together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation's largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering 33 million enrollees. All of our companies are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country.Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or any other classification protected by federal or state law. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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