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The Head of Cyber Data Governance & Strategy will establish and lead the cybersecurity data, governance, analytics, metrics, and reporting function within the Office of the CISO. This leader will define the strategy, operating model, governance framework, and technology roadmap needed to deliver trusted, decision-ready cyber risk insights.
The role will lead a multi-year Cybersecurity Lakehouse & Metrics Project, building a governed cyber data platform and reusable data products. Initial priorities include executive metrics, identity intelligence, and AI-enabled security workflows. Following implementation, the leader will own ongoing operations, program maturation, and a multidisciplinary team of data, governance, reporting, and automation professionals.
Key Responsibilities
Cyber Data Strategy and Leadership
Define and execute the cybersecurity data, analytics, governance, metrics, and reporting strategy and multi-year roadmap.
Advise the CISO and Head of the Office of the CISO on data, reporting, automation, and platform strategy.
Establish clear services, standards, controls, accountabilities, and performance measures for the function.
Partner across Cybersecurity, Enterprise Data, Architecture, Technology, Risk, Finance, and Procurement to align priorities and represent cybersecurity in enterprise planning forums.
Cybersecurity Lakehouse & Metrics Program
Lead the design, implementation, and operationalization of the multi-year Cybersecurity Lakehouse & Metrics Program.
Manage the approximately $4 million investment, including roadmap, budget, resources, vendors, risks, dependencies, and benefits realization.
Coordinate delivery across cybersecurity, technology, data, architecture, and third-party partners.
Deliver scalable, secure, reusable capabilities and transition the program to a sustainable operating model.
Data Platform, Architecture, and Engineering
Oversee the architecture and operation of cloud-based cybersecurity lakehouse, warehouse, storage, and analytics capabilities.
Guide the use of platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake, or comparable technologies.
Establish reusable standards for ingestion, transformation, data modeling, data products, analytics, and AI-enabled workflows.
Ensure platforms and pipelines are secure, resilient, scalable, observable, cost-effective, and supportable.
Implement structured intake, prioritization, documentation, testing, reconciliation, monitoring, and production support for new data sources and use cases.
Cyber Data Governance
Establish the cybersecurity data governance framework covering ownership, stewardship, quality, lineage, metadata, classification, access, retention, and lifecycle management.
Define accountability for cyber data and data products across the Office of the CISO.
Maintain an approved data and metrics catalog with definitions, calculations, sources, owners, thresholds, frequency, and lineage.
Establish certification, quality monitoring, issue remediation, and exception-management processes for trusted data products and executive metrics.
Lead governance forums and ensure executive and regulatory reporting is traceable to authoritative sources and approved calculations.
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