This health system is uniquely positioned as an internationally renowned hospital and research organization. Over the last several years, the organization has initiated a significant digital transformation across the organization in alignment with the Chief Executive Officer and the health system’s multi-year strategic plan. This includes a wide array of initiatives centered around the technology-enablement of world class employee and patient experience, operational efficiency and excellence, systems modernization, automation, AI, external partnerships, and broad innovation. This transformation has significant information security implications, as does the heightened threat landscape in an age of AI.

As the health system continues to transform healthcare, it strives to revolutionize its security program to protect its assets and support its world-class health system strategy. The Senior Director of Information Security will lead and modernize security engineering and operations (cyber defense), ensuring continuous improvement, risk mitigation, and robust layers of defense.

This role is responsible for the strategic and operational management of the organization’s security engineering and cyber defense programs. The Senior Director oversees the management of security operations services, including incident response, vulnerability management, threat hunting, and overall program development within the enterprise. A key responsibility is the continuous evaluation of evolving threats, staying abreast of security technologies, and modernizing layers of defense. The role acts as a security liaison between technology, business, research, and clinical verticals to advance security culture and achieve alignment for strategy and security posture. Additionally, the health system is partnering with a leading managed security services organization, transitioning to a next generation, hybrid SOC model imminently. This new leader will spearhead this ongoing initiative, including the decommissioning of legacy systems in 2026.

The Senior Director is a critical leadership position reporting directly to the Chief Information Security Officer and is a trusted advisor to the Digital Technology Leadership team, as well as key stakeholders throughout the organization.

The Senior Director of Information Security will have a broad set of responsibilities that will encompass the following:

Lead and continuously improve the health system's approach to security monitoring, logging and incident response, ensuring regular oversight, risk evaluation, metrics, and reporting focused on process improvement, tackling evolving threats and focusing on automation and emerging technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence) for continuous improvement

The Senior Director will be an innovative leader with strong technical acumen and outstanding communication skills, with the natural ability to interface and influence effectively across the health system. Healthcare experience and more specifically in large health systems is strongly preferred. Regardless of industry background, the Senior Director must be an innovative, self-starting, collaborative, and thoughtful leader with proven experience navigating a complex, scaled environment and drive meaningful, technology-driven transformation.

The following experience and skills are critical to success:

A bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a similar field is required, an advanced degree in a related field is preferred. The following certifications are preferred: