Director IT Security

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Description:

The CISO is responsible for the design, delivery, and maintenance of the information security infrastructure to IT Shared Services opcos worldwide. Working directly with technical, security, and business leaders at the opco and at the Danaher Corporate level, ensuring critical systems and assets are protected and secured with a combination of sound policy, technical safeguards, and associate training. The CISO carries out this work through the leadership of a globe-spanning group of network and infrastructure technologists.

Responsibilities:

• Mentoring, developing, and building a highly competent team focused on delivering a secure and compliant environment.
• Building partnerships between the information security team and line-of-business executives, corporate compliance, audit, legal, and HR management teams to ensure alignment.
• Developing an information security vision and strategy aligned with the Danaher Infosec Policies and Standards to facilitate business objectives and ensure senior stakeholder buy-in.
• Developing, implementing, and monitoring a strategic, comprehensive information security program to ensure appropriate levels of confidentiality, integrity, availability, safety, privacy, and recovery of information assets.
• Continuously assessing engagements between teams and business users for improvement opportunities.
• Evaluating complex IT service and process problems and providing accurate assessments.
• Mobilizing necessary resources to resolve or redesign issues and effectively delegating tasks.
• Participating in and contributing to a monthly review of IT performance metrics to gauge organizational effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.

The CISO will work closely with:

• Leica infrastructure, applications, PMO, and governance teams to ensure alignment and flawless execution of systems objectives in support of the business.
• Global Director, IT Security to develop the structure of projects and programs, including associated justification and ROI analysis.
• Leading teams through discovery processes to identify supportive data points and pitch these investments to leadership for support.
• Managing IT vendor relationships, including SOW builds and approvals for engagements, purchase order processing, and invoice management.
• Setting annual performance and development goals for security direct reports, holding team and one-on-one meetings, mentoring through challenging situations, and providing timely feedback.

Work location:

• While the role is predominantly remote, the CISO must be available to travel for projects, annual meetings, critical situations, and trainings.

Required Education, Experience, Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Information Technology (IT), Computer Science, or Business, or equivalent professional experience.
• A minimum of 8 years working in IT security roles as a consultant or security architect.
• A minimum of 5 years of Director-level or CISO experience in security.
• Excellent communicator, effective in relaying difficult concepts and gaining support through all levels of the organization.
• Requires a comprehensive understanding of concepts and principles within own competencies and a strong desire to broadly learn others.
• A history of trusted partnerships between business and IT.
• A strong mentor to other IT professionals.
• An influencer who is willing and able to drive change in the organization.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple constituents and cultures.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) and healthcare laws and regulations (e.g., HIPAA).
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills.
• Program/project management expertise.
• Persistence, resourcefulness, drive, and initiative; self-directed.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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