Senior Director of Cyber Defense Architecture & Engineering

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Summary:

The Senior Director of Cyber Defense Architecture & Engineering leads the strategy design engineering and continuous improvement of enterprise detection response and threat mitigation capabilities across the enterprise. This role is accountable for building or integrating resilient intelligence-driven automated cyber defense platforms spanning endpoint network cloud identity data and SaaS environments. This role is responsible for building strong partnerships with technology teams other corporate support functions and other Information Security organizations to protect the corporate brand data and assets and is responsible for the design implementation operation and maintenance of an information security framework processes and systems that protect the business services information and systems against unauthorized use disclosure modification damage and loss.

The position partners closely with the CISO Cyber Defense Sr. Leadership other Information Security Sr. Leaders and other Technology Leadership teams to establish a vision and strategy required to ensure scalable measurable and continuously improving defense capabilities across the applicable security domain in collaboration with other information security domain leaders and partner organizations.

Our employee experience is a strategic priority for our company. Our leaders are accountable for leading with purpose fairness and equity. They are responsible for building and developing diverse teams maintaining a safe and inclusive environment setting clear priorities and holding self and team accountable for executing with excellence.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the enterprise cyber defense architecture strategy aligned to threat landscape and risk appetite in collaboration with Cyber Defense senior leadership.

• Develop layered defense models across endpoint network cloud identity and SaaS.

• Establish and document detection engineering standards and reference architectures.

• Collaborate & enable Zero Trust monitoring and enforcement architecture.

• Present defense posture maturity risk trends and roadmap to executive leadership.

• Establish the enterprise detection engineering program and lead evaluation of new tools and technologies to support the Cyber Defense ecosystem.

• Define logging standards and telemetry requirements across platforms.

• Collaborate & partner with key stakeholder to oversee use case lifecycle management (creation tuning retirement).

• Standardize MITRE ATT&CK mapping across detections.

• Reduce false positives while increasing true positive detection rates in collaboration with Cyber Defense teams.

• Oversee or drive a collaborative approach to architecture and engineering of: SIEM platforms SOAR playbooks EDR/XDR solutions NDR solutions Email security and anti-phishing platforms Deception technologies Threat intelligence platforms Security data lakes and analytics platforms

• Drive automation AI/ML integration and policy-as-code for response workflows in collaboration with Cloud Security and other senior security leaders.

• Enable automated containment and remediation capabilities.

• Partner with Incident Response and Cyber Counter Adversary leadership for operational efficiency and maturity uplifts.

• Support purple team exercises to validate detection and response effectiveness.

• Integrate strategic tactical and operational threat intelligence into engineering roadmap.

• Translate threat actor activity into detection content and control enhancements.

• Integrate defense controls across: Public cloud environments (AWS Azure GCP) Hybrid data centers SaaS platforms Enterprise networks endpoints and mobile OT/IoT (in partnership with OT sr. cybersecurity leadership)

• Support M&A security integrations and divestiture disentanglement.

• Ensure compliance with global regulatory regimes (e.g. HIPAA GDPR SOX FDA/GxP where applicable).

• Establish KPIs OKRs and performance dashboards.

• Establish control validation framework.

• Lead breach simulation and continuous control monitoring as needed to support Cyber Defense senior leaders

• Report measurable defense maturity to executive leadership and other senior leaders.

• Lead global team of detection engineers platform engineers and automation specialists.

• Establish engineering career paths and succession planning.

• Enterprise financial management and planning experience.

• Follows information security trends within and outside of work with executive leadership to strategize and recommend changes and updates to company.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in cybersecurity computer science information security information systems or a related field or equivalent experience required.

• Masters Degree in Business Administration Computer Science Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience.

Experience :

• 12 years of directly-related or relevant experience

• 8 years in a managerial capacity preferably in information security.

Preferred Certifications:

• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP)

• GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)

• GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)

• GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)

• Certification in Information Security Strategy Management (CISM)

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

Behavioral Skills:

• Coaching and Mentoring

• Creativity & Innovation

• Decision Making

• Leadership Skills

• People Management

• Planning

• Risk-taking

Technical Skills:

• IT Risk Management

• IT Controls

• Cyber Attack Mitigation

• Enterprise IT Management

• Network Security

• Service Level Maintenance

• Information Security Strategy Continuity

• Threat Modelling

• Information Security Strategy Standards (SOX ISO 27001/27002 COBIT ITIL NIST PCI)

Tools Knowledge:

• Microsoft Office Suite

• Security Tools - CSPM CWPP CDR CNAPP SIEM EDR Email Security Gateway SOAR Firewall Anti-virus Firewalls VPN IDS/IPS AV proxies etc.

• Security Testing Tools - Open Source and COTS security tools

• Threat Intelligence Tools

• Vulnerability Testing Tools

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation benefits and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members ability to live with purpose every addition to traditional offerings like medical dental and vision care we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical emotional financial and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families which may include backup dependent care adoption assistance infertility coverage family building support behavioral health solutions paid parental leave and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth we also offer a variety of training programs professional development resources and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs employee resource groups volunteer activities and much more. For details visit <