Director - Cyber Assurance

McKesson•Richmond, VA

1d•$150,000 - $250,000

About The Position

The Director of Cybersecurity Assurance leads cyber assurance and advisory functions for the security organization. This role manages a team of security leads overseeing cyber risk management, security architecture, regulatory and audit compliance, and policy development. The Director provides security architecture and advisory support to business and product teams to enforce security by design, and owns the cyber security awareness program, including tabletop exercises and phishing campaigns. This leadership role requires deep technical expertise in security architecture, advisory, and risk management. The Director sets strategy, roadmaps, and success metrics; governs delivery and reliability rhythms; and drives security outcomes across teams. Additional responsibilities include securing leadership alignment, defining oversight scorecards, ensuring adherence to enterprise policies, and communicating risks and progress to executive leadership.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent experience. Typically requires 15+ years of professional experience and 10+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).
15+ years of cybersecurity experience with significant depth in security architecture, cyber assurance and advisory, third party management, cyber grc, risk management and compliance, including 10+ years leading teams and/or enterprise programs.
Hands-on and leadership experience managing a security architecture program
Proven ability to drive remediation outcomes at scale establishing SLAs, clarifying ownership, prioritizing backlogs, and closing systemic gaps surfaced by incidents, hunts, and assessments.
Executive-ready communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to present risk, progress, and investment needs to senior leadership and influence decisions
Demonstrated ability to set strategy, secure organizational alignment/approvals, and deliver outcomes through multiple stakeholders (Security, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application/Product, and business teams).
Deep understanding cyber security risk management, compliance, architecture and advisory services
Strong risk communication skills: able to translate detection gaps and remediation tradeoffs into business impact, present to executives, and drive decisions to closure.
Experience establishing oversight metrics and operational rhythms (OKRs/KPIs, reporting, service reviews) and using data to improve alert quality, reduce noise, and accelerate remediation throughput.
Working knowledge of relevant governance and regulatory expectations and the ability to partner effectively with audit/compliance and privacy stakeholders while operating an effective detection and response capability.
Track record of building high-performing teams and leading with integrity, accountability, and operational discipline; known for clear communication, sound judgment, and reliable execution.
Experience developing multi-year roadmaps and influencing investment decisions (people, tooling, telemetry, automation) to improve enterprise detection and remediation outcomes.
Proven capability managing vendor relationships and service contracts for security tooling and managed services, including defining requirements and measuring performance against outcomes.
Strong understanding of privacy considerations and appropriate monitoring practices; able to partner with Legal/Privacy and HR as needed and ensure monitoring and investigations remain within policy and regulatory boundaries.
Experience operating in hybrid/cloud environments and partnering with platform teams to instrument systems (cloud logging, identity signals, endpoint telemetry, network data) for reliable detections.
Strong strategic and tactical decision-makingable to balance speed and risk, define compensating controls, and drive complex remediation decisions across multiple owners.
Experience leading or sponsoring purple team activities, tabletop exercises, and control validation to continuously improve detection coverage and response playbooks.
Trusted leader who builds credibility with executives and teams through transparency, follow-through, and a strong culture of operational excellence.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience.
Relevant certifications (preferred): CISSP, CISM, GIAC/SANS, +, SSCP, or equivalent foundational security certification.
TDR/SecOps certifications (a plus): Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer and/or Associate Cloud Engineer, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, and/or GIAC certifications (e.g., GSEC, GCIH) depending on role focus.
and/or cloud/security engineering certifications aligned to the teams platforms.

Responsibilities

Design and own the enterprise Cyber Assurance strategy and operating model, including the build out of the team and developing the intent, direction, and roadmap for the program
Lead the cyber security architecture practice including building a security architecture program to ensure security by design practices and requirements are embedded in everything we do
Providing security advisory services to the business and application teams and performing security and threat assessments to identify security control gaps and ensuring the proper requirements are implemented into the architecture design
Partnering with the Threat Detection & Response leader to implement a Threat Modeling program
Develop and lead the cyber security metrics and executive reporting processes, including KPIs and metrics
Establish a remediation program to drive closure of all security vulnerabilities and gaps identified through incidents, assessments, architecture reviews, vulnerability scans; ensure clear ownership, prioritization, timelines, and exception processes
Lead cyber security risk management activities (e.g. audit, regulatory), coordinate with risk partners on all assessments activities and deliverables
Design and implement policies, standards, and procedures in partnership with key stakeholders; ensuring governance and reporting processes and exception processes are implemented
Lead and develop the cyber security awareness program including the development and execution of cyber table top exercises and phishing campaigns
Lead the cyber security resiliency program and ensure effective incident response and recovery processes are implemented
Responsible for the development and implementation of an asset management program within the cyber organization
Lead the third party risk management program and processes including the inventory of third parties, risk assessment process, prioritization of third parties, understanding of risk severity of third parties