Director, Security Architecture & Engagement

Description:
Hybrid 4 days onsite in Burbank, CA

Our client seeks a Director, Security Architecture & Engagement to act as a strategic cybersecurity advisor and trusted partner for business, product, engineering, and technology leaders. The director will lead security architects and engineers, drive secure-by-design initiatives, mature enterprise security architecture, and enable risk-based decisions across a global technology landscape. The role requires deep architecture expertise, stakeholder engagement, and the ability to influence technical and executive audiences.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $113.00 to $115.00/hr. w2

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Responsibilities:

• Serve as a primary cybersecurity advisor to business, technology, product, and engineering leaders.
• Build trusted relationships and provide practical, business-focused security guidance.
• Translate complex security and architecture requirements into actionable recommendations.
• Facilitate collaboration across business teams, engineers, architects, compliance partners, and security stakeholders.
• Ensure security requirements are incorporated early in planning and delivery processes.
• Support teams in navigating security governance and review processes.
• Promote approved security standards, reusable patterns, and secure implementation approaches.
• Lead security engagement efforts with vendors and third-party partners.
• Design enterprise security architectures and integrations across people, process, and technology.
• Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference architectures, design patterns, control frameworks, and security policies.
• Provide technical leadership across Zero Trust, AI Security, IAM, Data Security, Secure Access, and DevSecOps.
• Lead architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and security risk evaluations.
• Establish security architecture standards and evaluate emerging technologies.
• Support cloud security initiatives across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
• Drive adoption of risk-based security metrics and decision-making.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of security architects and engineers, including distributed teams and contractors.
• Oversee project delivery, budgets, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Advise leadership on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and business impacts.
• Foster a collaborative, service-oriented culture focused on partnership and enablement.

Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience within technology organizations.
• Minimum 3 years of DevOps experience.
• Minimum 2 years of Information Security experience supporting large enterprise environments.
• Proven experience as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong enterprise security architecture experience.
• Experience in one or more areas: Application Security, Secure SDLC, Data Security, Penetration Testing, Threat Detection & Monitoring, Security Operations, Threat Hunting, Security Automation, Machine Learning Security.
• Strong knowledge of NIST 800-53, CIS Benchmarks, ISO 27001, ISMS frameworks, and security risk management methodologies.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience managing technical teams.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to balance security, risk, and business objectives in a complex enterprise environment.
• Preferred: CISSP, CISM, CISA, GCIH, CEH, AWS Security Specialty, or similar certifications.
• Preferred: Knowledge of SOX, HIPAA, PCI, GDPR.
• Preferred: Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab, Splunk, Vault, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures.
• Preferred: Background in penetration testing, adversarial simulations, or advanced cybersecurity testing.
• Preferred: Experience supporting highly regulated global organizations and Fortune 100 environments.

Education Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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