Deputy CISO and Cybersecurity Architect

Join Lurie Children’s as a Deputy CISO and Cybersecurity Architect and help shape a hospital-wide security transformation and enterprise security architecture. This onsite role in Streeterville, IL provides executive-level ownership of target-state security design, transformation planning, and prioritization, with a focus on aligning security capabilities to clinical operations, digital initiatives, and regulatory requirements.

What you’ll deliver

• Develop and govern the enterprise cybersecurity target-state architecture and the multi-year transformation roadmap .
• Build and mature a scalable, internally owned security operating model and delivery capability.
• Act as a technical lead to senior risk leaders, delivering technical guidance and risk modeling to support executive decision-making.
• Define and enforce security architecture standards across cloud , on-prem , identity , network , endpoint , application , and data environments.
• Drive the technical execution of security initiatives, ensuring solutions remain architecturally sound and sustainable.
• Collaborate with IT , Digital , Clinical , and Infrastructure leadership to embed security into technology delivery and operations.
• Serve as executive decision authority for security architecture, risk tradeoffs, and technical strategy.
• Support executive and board-level communications on security strategy, risk posture, and transformation progress.
• Ensure alignment with healthcare regulatory and compliance frameworks, including HIPAA , NIST , and PCI .
• Grow internal security architecture and engineering capabilities, including roles, skills, and operating processes.
• Establish metrics and reporting for the overall cyber program, security maturity, risk identification, risk reduction, and program performance.

What you bring

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity leadership, security architecture, or security transformation roles.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise security architecture, cloud security , identity and access management , detection and response , and network and endpoint security .
• Proven ability to lead large-scale, multi-year security modernization programs.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including board and senior leadership engagement.
• Ability to translate business and clinical needs into practical, risk-based security strategies.
• Healthcare or other highly regulated environment experience preferred.
• Knowledge of relevant frameworks and regulations, including NIST , HIPAA , and PCI .
• Ability to build and lead high-performing technical and architectural teams.
• Strategic, systems-level thinking with hands-on technical credibility.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP , CISM , CCSP ) preferred.

Tools and frameworks you’ll work with

HIPAA , NIST , PCI , CISSP , CISM , CCSP

Compensation and location

Location: 680 Lake Shore Drive (onsite)

Pay range: USD 180,960 to 298,584 per year

Benefits

For full time and part time employees who work 20 or more hours per week, Lurie Children’s offers a generous benefits package.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Employer paid group term life and disability
• Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave
• 403(b) with a 5% employer match
• Supplemental Life, AD and Disability
• Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Tuition assistance
• Student loan servicing and support
• Adoption benefits
• Backup Childcare and Eldercare
• Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
• Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities
• Discount purchasing program

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