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Join Relias, the company changing lives throughout the world by helping healthcare organizations improve their clinical and financial outcomes!\nFor 11,000+ health care and human service organizations, Relias helps clients deliver better clinical and financial outcomes by elevating the performance of teams. We help organizations across the continuum of care get better at maintaining compliance, developing staff and promoting consistent, high-quality care. Our platform employs assessments to reveal specific gaps in skills and addresses them with personalized and engaging learning, choosing from 7,000+ online courses that meet accrediting board, state and federal requirements. We are passionate about our products and our clients; what we deliver and the impact we have on the world is truly something you can be proud to represent. Join us and make a difference.\nWHAT CAN RELIAS OFFER YOU?\nFantastic health and wellness benefits package, including an outstanding 401k match, a flexible PTO program, and a generous and inclusive parental leave policy. Additionally, Relias pays for the employee portion of the monthly healthcare premium!\nFlexible work environment with onsite and work from home options - you choose when you want to come into the office!\nActive Employee Resource Groups open to all employees!\nComprehensive onboarding program - a great introduction to our company, customers and culture!\nGrowth and career advancement opportunities!Multiple development program options - leadership development, professional development curriculums, and Nanodegree options in both technology and data science\nProfessional development gained from conference attendance and participation in organizations like NC Tech\nOnsite 321 Coffee Shop providing free coffee and pastries to employees\n\nJob Description\nThe Director of (Cyber) Security Architecture and Engineering is a cyber leadership role responsible for establishing, operationalizing, and continuously maturing the organization’s security architecture and engineering capabilities in support of business strategy, technology transformation, and enterprise risk management objectives. This role provides strategic and hands-on leadership across security architecture, secure design, platform security engineering, cloud and application security enablement, and security tooling integration. The Director partners closely with technology, product, infrastructure, privacy, risk, compliance, legal, and business stakeholders to ensure security requirements are embedded into enterprise architecture, software development, infrastructure modernization, and third-party technology adoption. The role is accountable for defining security patterns and standards, guiding security-by-design practices, overseeing engineering roadmaps, and building a scalable team capable of reducing enterprise risk while enabling business growth, resilience, and regulatory readiness.\nWHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:\nLead the strategic direction, operating model, and maturity roadmap for the security architecture and engineering function.\nDefine and maintain enterprise security architecture principles, reference architectures, design patterns, and engineering standards aligned to business objectives and risk tolerance.\nOversee the design, implementation, and lifecycle management of security technologies supporting identity, endpoint, network, cloud, data, application, and infrastructure security capabilities.\nPartner with enterprise architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, cloud, and software engineering teams to embed security-by-design and secure-by-default practices into technology solutions and delivery processes.\nReview and approve security architecture for major systems, platforms, integrations, and transformation initiatives, including cloud services and third-party technologies.\nDirect security engineering activities related to control implementation, automation, integration, tuning, and operational resilience.\nEstablish and socialize secure design requirements for applications, platforms, APIs, data flows, and infrastructure components.\nProvide leadership for application security and product security enablement, including guidance on secure development, threat modeling, architectural risk analysis, and remediation priorities.\nCollaborate with governance, risk, and compliance stakeholders to align control design and technology implementations with internal policies, customer requirements, and regulatory expectations.\nDrive technical risk reduction initiatives by identifying architecture gaps, control weaknesses, technical debt, and modernization opportunities.\nManage vendor and technology evaluations related to security architecture and engineering capabilities, including proof-of-concept activities and implementation planning.\nCoach, develop, and performance-manage architects and engineers while building a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable team culture.\nSupport incident response, significant investigations, and post-incident improvement efforts by providing architecture and engineering expertise for containment, recovery, and long-term remediation.\nQualifications\nYOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES IF YOU HAVE/ARE:\n10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security, or closely related technology roles.\n5+ years of leadership experience in security architecture, security engineering, or a comparable cyber leadership function.\nBachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.\nDemonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise security controls across cloud, infrastructure, application, identity, and data domains.\nExperience leading security architecture reviews, engineering initiatives, and cross-functional technology programs in a mid-sized or large enterprise environment.\nExperience managing and developing technical teams, including architects, engineers, or other specialized cybersecurity staff.\nExperience partnering with senior technology and business leaders to align security capabilities with strategic objectives and operational requirements.\nExperience supporting audits, assessments, customer security reviews, or regulatory/compliance initiatives through technical control design and evidence support.\nExperience evaluating and implementing security technologies, platforms, and managed services.\nEXPERIENCE/EDUCATION PREFERRED:\nMaster’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Assurance, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related discipline.\nProfessional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, SABSA, AWS/Azure/GCP security certifications, or other relevant architecture and security credentials.\nExperience in SaaS, cloud-native, highly regulated, or customer-facing technology environments.\nExperience aligning security capabilities to recognized frameworks or standards such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, or other applicable requirements.\nExperience building or maturing security architecture review boards, secure engineering practices, or security reference architecture programs.\nExperience with mergers, acquisitions, major transformation programs, or global technology environments.\nAdditional Information\nIN OFFICE REQUIREMENT:\nRelias values collaboration and wants to ensure that our team members have opportuniites to work with their managers regularly for professional development opportunities. This role requires that you live in the state of North Carolina, within a commutable distance to our office. You would be expected to work in our Morrisville, NC Headquarters approximately 30 days/quarter.\nRelias is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug-Free workplace. Relias welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities and is happy to make reasonable accommodations in all aspects of the selection process. If you are an individual with a disability and require reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the job application process, please visit our career page for instructions. \nAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.\nDisclosure requirements pertaining to the collection of your personal data:\nResponsible for processing the information provided in your application is the company specified in the job advertisement, with its registered office as indicated. The company processes your data for the purpose of establishing an employment relationship on the basis of Art. 6 (1) b GDPR / Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG.\nThe retention period for your data is determined by the statutory time limits applicable in the respective country, beginning upon completion of the recruitment process. 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