Team Lead Security Risk Management

RDQ326R108

Team Lead Security Risk Management

Location: United States

== To comply with U.S. federal government requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required for this position ==

As the Team Lead (Individual Contributor) for the Security Risk Management team at Databricks, you will be responsible for driving the program development and operational excellence of our security risk management program. You are expected to be a catalyst for embedding security into the fabric of the organization, enabling secure innovation, and safeguarding the company’s assets, reputation, and strategic objectives.

In this critical role, you will provide subject matter expertise and leadership to a team of security risk management professionals within our dynamic, cloud-native technology environment. You will collaborate extensively with cross-functional partner teams (e.g., Security, IT, Engineering, Compliance, Internal Audit) worldwide to conduct comprehensive security risk assessments, maintain the Databricks risk register, and more.

While this is a remote work opportunity within the following geographic regions, work hours will have to heavily overlap with the US East and US West time zones:  

The impact you will have:

• Drive Security Risk Management program maturity to enable risk-informed decision making by the business leadership about risk tolerance and resource allocation
• Lead the team of Security Risk Management engineers to drive effectiveness and efficiency in program’s operations
• Be the primary point of contact for the handling of escalations with cross-functional teams and leadership
• Integrate security risk management across the organization
• Determine and drive risk mitigation efforts
• Support recurring reporting of risk program metrics to leadership
• Manage security risk acceptance and exceptions processes
• Maintain risk-related policy and process documents

What we look for:

We are looking for a professional with the following skills and practical experience in:

• Leading, mentoring, and developing a high-performing security risk management team, fostering collaboration, technical excellence, and continuous learning
• Designing, implementing, and managing a security risk management program
• Managing escalations and effectively interacting with leadership and cross-functional teams
• Building and documenting risk management and risk acceptance / security exception processes specific to a company’s environment
• Completing projects with multiple dependencies / constraints and build relationships with / manage diverse stakeholders remotely
• Tracking and reporting of key performance and risk indicators
• Ability to clearly articulate risk concepts and results to leadership and peers
• Excellent verbal and written communication, documentation, collaboration, analytical, and presentation skills
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in cybersecurity, computer science, or related field is preferred
• Relevant security and GRC certifications, such as CISSP, CCSP, CSSLP, CGRC, CCSK, GSEC, GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, CISA, CRISC, and CEH, are preferred
• 12+ years of security experience or advanced degree + 8 years of security experience
• 2 - 4 years of prior team management experience
• Working understanding of security, assessment, risk management, and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST 800-37, NIST 800-39, NIST 800-30, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 27001, ISO 27005, NIST 800-53, SOC 2, PCI, FedRAMP)