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As the global leader in cloud-based K-12 software, we support the full education ecosystem-from the central office to the classroom to the home. Joining PowerSchool means being part of a mission-driven team that is transforming K-12 education by helping schools operate more effectively and deliver better outcomes for educators, students, and families.\nPosition Overview\nThe Director, Security Operations and Architecture is responsible for defining and executing the enterprise security strategy across Security Operations, Incident Response, Security Architecture, Security Engineering, Identity Security, and Cloud Security. This leader oversees the people, processes, and technologies required to prevent, detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats while establishing the security architecture, standards, and controls that protect the organization and enable business objectives.\nThe role drives operational excellence through security monitoring, detection engineering, threat intelligence, automation, cloud security, identity governance, and secure-by-design principles. Working closely with technology, business, product, and security leaders, the Director ensures security risks are proactively managed while delivering measurable improvements in resilience, operational effectiveness, security maturity, and risk reduction.\nResponsibilities\nDescription\nYour day-to-day job will consist of:\nSecurity Architecture\nDefine and execute the security architecture, engineering, identity security, and cloud security strategy aligned to business objectives and enterprise risk priorities.\nLead the Security Architecture organization, including Security Engineering, Identity Security, and Cloud Security functions.\nEstablish and maintain enterprise security standards, reference architectures, design principles, and technical security guardrails.\nDefine and govern enterprise identity and access management strategy, including privileged access, authentication, authorization, and identity governance.\nEstablish cloud security architecture standards, cloud 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fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.\nSecurity Operations\nDefine and execute the security operations, incident response, and cyber defense strategy, roadmap, and maturity plan aligned with organizational risk priorities.\nLead the Security Operations and Incident Response functions, ensuring effective detection, investigation, containment, eradication, and recovery of cybersecurity incidents.\nDirect the operation and continuous improvement of security monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting, and incident response capabilities.\nEstablish and maintain incident response plans, playbooks, escalation procedures, and crisis management processes.\nDrive continuous improvement of detection coverage, incident response effectiveness, automation, and operational efficiency.\nDevelop and maintain security operations metrics, KPIs, SLAs, and executive reporting to measure program performance and risk reduction.\nPartner with Security Architecture, Cloud Security, Identity Security, IT, and Engineering teams to improve preventive and detective controls.\nOversee vulnerability prioritization and operational risk remediation activities in collaboration with technology teams.\nManage relationships with external security service providers, incident response partners, law enforcement, and cyber insurance stakeholders as required.\nEnsure operational readiness through tabletop exercises, simulations, and continuous training programs.\nBuild, mentor, and develop high-performing security operations, incident response, and detection engineering teams.\nCommunicate security incidents, emerging threats, operational risks, program performance, and security priorities to executive leadership and key stakeholders.\nQualifications\nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in relevant business or technical discipline is required.\n10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience with leadership responsibility across security operations, incident response, security architecture, engineering, or related security programs.\n5+ years of leadership experience managing security operations teams, SOC functions, incident response teams, security architects, engineers, or security managers.\nDemonstrated experience leading multiple security domains, including security operations, incident response, identity and access management, cloud security, and security engineering.\nDemonstrated experience managing and responding to complex cybersecurity incidents in enterprise environments.\nDeep understanding of enterprise security architecture, security controls, risk management, and secure-by-design principles.\nStrong knowledge of security operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, digital forensics, and incident response practices.\nExperience developing security metrics, operational KPIs, SLAs, and executive-level reporting.\nExperience with public cloud platforms and cloud security architectures.\nStrong understanding of cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application security concepts.\nProven ability to lead cross-functional teams during high-severity incidents and crisis situations.\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting to executive leadership.\nPreferred Qualifications\nRelevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CISA, or equivalent are a plus but not required.\nExperience leading security organizations within SaaS, cloud-native, or highly regulated environments.\nExperience leading a 24x7 SOC, managed detection and response partnership, or global security operations program.\nExperience developing multi-year security transformation or modernization programs.\nExperience with security automation, orchestration, and large-scale incident response process optimization.\nExperience developing threat intelligence, threat hunting, and adversary simulation programs.\nExperience supporting cyber crisis management, breach response, and 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