Senior Director - Cyber Security & Innovation

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Direct activities that have a significant impact to the overall achievement of all information security results on the program.

- Provide oversight and consultation on difficult security architecture and security engineering tasks.

- Develop, implement, and manage strategic project/client information security monitoring and operations to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of information owned by the program.

- Responsible for the relationship with client security team counterparts and Information Security Team budget, as well as providing insight on Information Security issues to program leadership.

Communicate and influence senior leadership regarding matters of strategic Information Security importance to the program.

Frequently conduct briefings to senior leaders both within and outside of the program.

- Manage a mid-sized team that is led by Directors and Sr.

Managers.

Responsible for hiring, firing, promotions and reward authority within the Information Security Group.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities: :

- Lead cybersecurity engineering, compliance, and innovation initiatives for federal programs.

- Oversee RMF implementation and continuous monitoring to ensure compliance in cloud and development environments.

- Drive adoption of AI-enabled solutions to improve cybersecurity operations, efficiency, and compliance outcomes.

- Define and implement strategies for Responsible AI, Zero Trust architecture, and DevSecOps maturity.

- Guide secure deployment of AI solutions within FedRAMP-authorized environments.

- Partner with government stakeholders to interpret and meet evolving cybersecurity and AI regulatory requirements.

- Advance secure software engineering practices through integrated cybersecurity controls.

Minimum Requirements

- Please refer to the additional information section of the job requisition for this opening to determine clearance eligibility required.

- Bachelor's Degree required.

- 12-15 years of related professional experience.

- Advanced management and leadership knowledge leading information security teams required.

- Highly technical role with previous information security architecture experience required.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline.

Additional years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of degree.

- 12-15+ years of cybersecurity experience supporting federal programs, including leadership roles spanning strategy, planning, innovation and compliance

- CISSP certification is required.

- Extensive knowledge of RMF processes and controls for federal programs, including NIST 800-53 control implementation, security control assessments (SCA), system authorization (ATO), continuous monitoring, and POA&M management.

- Demonstrated experience applying Generative AI to cybersecurity or compliance challenges.

- Strong backgro...