Director, Data Protection

Aledade • Washington, DC

3d • Remote

About The Position

As the Director for Data Protection, you will lead by being a highly technical leader who delivers high business impact on projects increasing dependencies and ambiguity. You will lead a team of individual contributors focused on protecting patients, our employees, and Aledade as a whole. You will establish frameworks and processes to enable secure access to Aledade’s data, including PHI, PII, etc. You will work with cross-functional stakeholders and teams to establish standards, SOPs, runbooks to manage the end-to-end data lifecycle. At Aledade, we empower primary care physicians with technology to keep their patients healthy, preventing unnecessary hospitalizations.

Requirements

• BS (or higher) in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience in designing, building, or operating data protection services
• 7+ years of building and leading highly complex, technical security teams

Nice To Haves

• Developing and delivering a multi-year vision and strategy with incremental quarterly deliverables with cross-functional efforts that span multiple teams
• Demonstrated proficiency in attracting, hiring, and coaching world-class engineers and managers
• Demonstrated experience in taking ownership of the technology decisions, while delegating and empowering team members.
• Working knowledge of health-tech systems, like Electronic Health Records, Clinical data, etc.
• Data Security: Proven leadership experience in managing data protection solutions, such as data security posture management (DSPM), data loss prevention (DLP) systems, encryption technologies, and data masking / anonymization techniques.
• Experience securing an ML, SaaS, or data-focused platform.
• Experience in data governance, data engineering, and associated technologies.
• Experience in cloud native application development and security models, particularly in AWS and Azure
• Proficiency in SaaS Data Security, knowledge of secure cloud architecture design, cloud data protection mechanisms, and cloud identity and access management (IAM).
• Programming and Scripting Experience (Python, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, Ruby, Go).
• Experience with data protection and governance technologies, e.g., Data Discovery, Data Inventory/Catalogs, Certificate and Key Management, Database Encryption, and Database Activity Monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Impact: Balance short and long-term business impact by developing strategies to manage risks.
• People: Develop outstanding teams using a combination of world-class-hiring and direct-timely-actionable feedback to develop security talent.
• Execution: Set aggressive yet clear goals and remove all roadblocks for the team to achieve them.
• Collaboration: Develop strong relationships and work cross-functionally with many partners across organizations and functions, and as a result, increase the impact of the team’s work.
• Company: Work closely with company-wide leaders to drive excellence in our processes and systems that protect patients, our employees, and Aledade as a whole.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and the ability to work remotely are available for many roles
• Health, dental and vision insurance paid up to 80% for employees, dependents and domestic partners
• Robust time-off plan (21 days of PTO in your first year)
• Two paid volunteer days and 11 paid holidays
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents
• Six weeks paid sabbatical after six years of service
• Educational Assistant Program and Clinical Employee Reimbursement Program
• 401(k) with up to 4% match
• Stock options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees