Information Security Specialist Principal

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia•Philadelphia, PA

1h•Hybrid

About The Position

This role requires a proven leader in enterprise vulnerability program management who can design, operate, and continuously mature a comprehensive vulnerability lifecycle across clinical, corporate, and cloud environments. The ideal candidate brings hands-on expertise with Rapid7, InsightVM, and ServiceNow Vulnerability Response to drive risk-based prioritization, automated workflows, and executive-level reporting. You will partner closely with IT, cloud, and application teams to translate scan results into actionable remediation plans, enforce SLAs, and align vulnerability management practices with NIST, HIPAA, and organizational risk frameworks—ensuring measurable risk reduction and sustained compliance across the enterprise. This department works approximately 80% remotely, 20% on site in our Philadelphia offices on an as-needed basis. A Principal Information Security Specialist has similar responsibilities to Information Security Specialist III personnel. However, a Principal Information Security Specialist is deemed to be the subject matter expert and in-house advisor on complex problems and issues.

Requirements

Demonstrates specialized & comprehensive knowledge in Information security management practices, disciplines, regulations, industry standards, related frameworks, project management principles, and methodologies, security engineering concepts, security operations model; industry standards around architecture principles.
Demonstrates exceptional skills in managing multiple projects and priorities in order to meet strategic goals and timelines.
Exhibits the ability to plan, manage and implement highly complex enterprise architecture and security implementations, enhancements or modifications that require in-depth knowledge across multiple technical areas and business segments.
Exhibits exceptional understanding of emerging regulatory and healthcare issues in order to develop internal and external checks and controls to ensure proper governance, security and quality of information assets.
Demonstrates exceptional troubleshooting and collaborative skills required to identify, analyze and resolve complicated security issues.
Demonstrates advanced proficiency in creating detailed documentation, perform budget planning and oversight, and providing input on CHOP infrastructure strategic planning, technology standards, and information security and risk practices.
Exhibits ability to communicate effectively with clients, colleagues, vendors, management and the ability to translate complex technical solutions into non-technical requirements documents.
Performs planning, development, implementation, and delivery of enterprise architecture and engineering principles for new, existing and future strategic and operational activities.
Demonstrates the ability to provide technical expertise and consultation to the CIO, CTO, CISO, executive leadership and other business and clinical leaders.
Bachelor's Degree - Required
At least twelve (12) years industry related experience, including experience in one to two IT disciplines (such as technical architecture, network management, application development, middleware, information analysis, database management or operations) in a multitier environment. Required
At least six (6) years experience with information security, regulatory compliance and risk management concepts. Required
At least three (3) years experience with Identity and Access Management, user provisioning, Role Based Access Control, or control self-assessment methodologies and security awareness training. Required
Experience with Cloud and/or Virtualization technologies. Required
Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Information security principles, general and IT controls (e.g., access controls, risk management, change management, cloud security) and related information security policies and procedures.
Exhibits knowledge of industry regulatory standards and accreditation requirements or control frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, Joint Commission, NIST, Red Flags, ISO 27000 series).
Comprehensive knowledge of information security regulations, standards and leading practices, including understanding of EHR, cloud frameworks, identity access controls.
Good knowledge of basic database query techniques & data mining to analyze data or other related database functionality.
General understanding of networking and communication techniques including WANs, LANs, Internet, Intranet, protocols, such as TCP/IP and their impact on security.
Understand and comply with all enterprise and IS departmental information security policies, procedures and standards.
Support the integration of information security in the development, design, and implementation of Hospital Technology Resources that process, transmit, or store CHOP information.
Support all compliance activities related to state, federal regulatory requirements, healthcare accreditation standards, and all other applicable regulations that govern the use and disclosure of patient, financial, or other confidential information.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field - Preferred
At least three (3) years in working with matrixed high performance teams. Preferred
Knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, UNIX, and Clinical Applications a plus.
Experience implementing application level security in clinical and financial systems (e.g., Epic, Lawson).
ERP experience a plus.
Microsoft, UNIX, Lawson, and Clinical Applications, Experience with industry standard SDLC methodologies; hands-on experience in Project Server methodologies, PMO project management skills, including use of MS productivity tools (Access, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Project).
Experience with risk management frameworks.
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
HealthCare Information Security and Privacy Practitioner (HCISPP) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
Certified in Cybersecurity - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
Certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) - Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) - upon hire - Preferred
CompTIA Security+ - CompTIA - upon hire - Preferred
GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) - GIAC Certifications - upon hire - Preferred
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) - EC-Council - upon hire - Preferred
Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) - Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) - upon hire - Preferred
Certificate of Cloud Auditing Knowledge (CCAK) - Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) - upon hire - Preferred

Responsibilities

Works independently to initiate assignments and draws upon extensive professional knowledge and experience to make independent judgments regarding analysis, evaluation, development, and implementation of enterprise long-term solutions and operating initiatives to ensure that enterprise architectural objectives are aligned with organizational needs and strategic goals.
Optimizes information management approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities and ensures that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and DTS strategies.
Shapes, designs, and plans specific service lines in product area and manages the risks associated with information and DTS assets through appropriate standards and security policies.
Functions as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to maintain an understanding of CHOP DTS business and clinical applications and the relationship to InfoSec and compliance solutions; assist Hospital stakeholders in understanding information protection needs that support the Hospital's business.
Works with other architects to provide a consensus based enterprise solution that is scalable, adaptable and in synchronization with ever changing business needs and takes ownership of a particular solution offering.
Works with highly matrixed team of DTS personnel to support enterprise architecture and information security operations including, but not limited to, architecture and InfoSec principles around identity & access management models, cloud identify management providers, security information and event monitoring, and data loss prevention, perimeter (e.g. firewalls, IPS, web filtering), cloud and virtualization environments and network security (host-based firewalls, anti-virus, disk encryption).
Support and/or lead activities around InfoSec standards for business continuity and change management activities (e.g., table tops and change review board) and educates DTS Hospital management on security issues (e.g., Identity and Access Management (IAM), Role Based Access Control (RBAC) models.