Director Authentication and Architecture

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Job Summary

Can you take a complex technical challenge and build a high-level risk business case for Executives and Stakeholders? Are you able to build a cohesive vision and deliver on technology solutions to enable the Business and the supporting Technology teams addressing the complex risk challenge? Do you have expertise in building, integrating and managing complex systems across various channels, infrastructure, operating systems, tools, applications, networks and teams? If yes, we want to hear from you!

Job Description

In this role

Comcast is seeking a Director, Security Architecture to join the Comcast CyberSecurity Security Architecture, Identity, and Access Management team. The Director, Security Architecture will be responsible for roadmap development of securely managing customer access, securing E2E architectures, creating secure design patterns and playbooks. This person needs to demonstrate experience with complex ecosystems demonstrating ownership of the entire process from start to finish and managing engineering, business-as-usual and operational teams.

What you will do

The position requires managing several different projects and products of varying scale and priority with different teams, divisions and businesses

You will be required to facilitate effective communication across all levels of the projects to ensure consistency in reaching the project's goal, and to help in the recognition of any potential opportunities, risks, dependencies or complications

Direct the architecture and evolution of securing data stores, APIs, cloud, web applications and more to deliver technology solutions with quality, performance, business value and customer experience

Drive automation to reduce manual operations, errors and inputs and streamline end-user experience

Enhance customer identity, authentication and access policy, standards, procedures and methods

Instill a culture of continuous improvement and work closely with senior leadership on KPI, reporting and metrics programs

Lead testing teams during the adaptation of solutions built leveraging the DevSecOps paradigm

Collaborate effectively with stakeholder teams in Comcast’s US-based corporate office

Support budget, roadmap and project planning

Exemplify Comcast culture of integrity, diversity, equity and inclusion

What you should possess

Have extensive knowledge of security technologies for data encryption, API security, identity, authentication, access management and authorizations

Manage large, complex programs and products that service multiple business models

Manage full lifecycle of data and products, including operations

Provide guidance for strategic security solutions for various architectures and systems

Have experience facilitating business process design

Help our technology and processes grow in an evolving business environment

Have a proven track record in building applications and services that are robust, scalable and provide a great experience to our customers

Possess broad technical knowledge in multiple areas of technology including some of the following: identity, access management, privileged access management, cloud, networking, application software, mobile, analytics, APIs, micro-services architectures, software defined networks and machine learning

Support operational and incident escalations in a timely way

Maintain security and risk controls and support Compliance objectives

Have great communication skills which include verbal and power point presentations

Be a strong leader with a very positive leadership style

Create a collaborative working environment to strengthen partnerships across teams

Guide program and project level goals, milestones and workflows

Resolve obstacles for ensure on-time delivery

Partner well with peers and cross team organizations

Anticipate and resolve issues (eliminate roadblocks for team to enable delivery)

Work with multiple PMs to ensure appropriate reporting of projects, products and programs

Lead and develop team members

Experience in leading large, agile test organizations operating in the DevSecOps model

Experience developing performance metrics for quality assurance processes

Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across time zones and cultures

Background in developing and managing resources and departmental budgets

What you should possess

Experience interfacing with executive leadership and making strategic improvements

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Positive 'can do' attitude

Demonstrated ability to motivate teams and manage a wide variety of work streams simultaneously, and under deadlines

Certifications: Relevant cyber security certifications, such as CISSP, CISM, are optional, but highly desired

What you can expect

An inclusive work environment with chances to showcase your skills

A culture of innovation and continuous learning

Training, support, and mentoring to expand and evolve your expertise

Opportunities to impact the security of Comcast products in millions of homes and businesses

What we require

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Information Security, Electrical Engineering, or similar

Minimum 10 years of deep experience in security architecture and building services

Proven leadership experience with management experience and engaging with Senior Leadership

Dynamic personality to motivate the team and help mentor junior resources

Other responsibilities

Handle highly sensitive information confidentially

Have a high personal integrity and sense of personal responsibility

Influencing external teams to support and successfully deliver organizational committed goals

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Employees at all levels are expected to:

Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.

Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.

Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.

Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.

Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making call backs and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.

Drive results and growth.

Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.

Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer:

This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years

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Company info

Comcast
Website : http://corporate.comcast.com