(USA) Senior Director, Information Security
About The Position
The Senior Director, Exposure Management Engineering, leads the engineering strategy, technical roadmap, and delivery of global capabilities for exposure management discovery, vulnerability management, frontier model scanning orchestration, and automated remediation. This leader builds and scales integrated platforms that enable exposure management, vulnerability management, frontier model scanning orchestration, and automated remediation across the global enterprise ecosystem. The role operationalizes frontier-model-powered security scanning and engineers automated workflows that connect discovery and assessment to actionable findings, corrective action, and verified closure while securely enabling business objectives. The team leads the engineering, operational reliability, and continuous enhancement of Walmart’s global exposure management platforms and automation capabilities. Responsibilities include exposure discovery, vulnerability management, frontier model scanning orchestration, and integrated workflows that automate remediation from identification to verified closure. The team develops scalable, resilient solutions across markets and technologies to accelerate exposure detection, enable risk-based prioritization, and drive timely remediation. By ensuring platform availability, integration, and ongoing modernization, the team effectively reduces enterprise cyber risk and supports secure business outcomes aligned with Walmart’s information security strategy.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in cyber risk management, including assessment and mitigation of security threats and vulnerabilities.
- Extensive experience leading enterprise engineering programs.
- Strategic mindset with experience in developing sustainable and continuously improving engineering capabilities.
- Proven ability to design and scale automated platforms and orchestration services across cloud, on-premises, and hosted environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in engineering, risk analysis, and strategic planning.
- Skilled in stakeholder engagement and driving collaboration to enhance security posture and operational effectiveness.
- Proficiency with NIST Cybersecurity Framework and IT risk management practices.
- Demonstrated strategic planning skills to drive security initiatives supporting business objectives.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills to influence security posture.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 7 years’ experience in information security or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
- 9 years’ experience in information security or related area at a technology, retail, or data-driven company.
- 4 years’ supervisory experience.
Nice To Haves
- Certification in Security+, GISF, CISM, or CISA
- Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering, information systems, cybersecurity, or related area and 5 years’ experience leading information security or cybersecurity projects.
- Background in creating inclusive digital experiences, demonstrating knowledge in implementing Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and integrating digital accessibility seamlessly.
- Knowledge of accessibility best practices and joining us as we continue to create accessible products and services following Walmart’s accessibility standards and guidelines for supporting an inclusive culture.
Responsibilities
- Define and execute a unified engineering strategy and delivery roadmap for exposure discovery, vulnerability management, frontier model scanning, and remediation automation.
- Engineer capabilities that integrate exposure insights, ownership, business context, and visibility that translate into actions required to risk reduce and strengthen our security posture.
- Oversee the engineering, integration, reliability, and scalability of exposure identification aggregation platforms, enabling consistent ingestion, normalization, correlation, and deduplication of exposures.
- Develop and implement the strategy to transition frontier-model-powered scanning capabilities from pilot into mature production services.
- Engineer reusable capabilities for generating and validating fixes, applying approved configuration changes, deploying mitigations, and orchestrating corrective actions at speed and scale.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Medical coverage
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401(k)
- Stock purchase
- Company-paid life insurance
- PTO (including sick leave)
- Parental leave
- Family care leave
- Bereavement
- Jury duty
- Voting leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
