At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.
We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.
The opportunity
We are seeking a motivated, self‑driven Senior Technology Director to lead the global delivery, run‑state, and modernization of the firm’s cyber monitoring and response technology and security management technology portfolio. This role is accountable for ensuring mission‑critical security platforms are reliable, high‑performing, and continuously improving, while translating stakeholder needs into a clear vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog. The ideal candidate brings strong executive presence, proven platform and service leadership, and a track record of delivering complex security technology outcomes across a global, multi‑team environment.
Key responsibilities:
- Oversee and direct all activities related to security infrastructure, engineering, operations, and service management.
- Design and implement technology strategies to optimize system performance and guard against cyber threats.
- Develops and communicates portfolio vision, roadmap and drives the technology backlog by collaborating with cross function and business teams.
- Collaborates closely with stakeholders to align security measures with business goals, ensuring that solutions enhance operational efficiency and maintain risk appetite.
- Utilize data-driven insights to drive efficiency and innovation throughout our security infrastructure.
- Lead and mentor a cross-functional team to proactively identify and efficiently resolve issues.
- Stay current with the latest security trends and emerging technologies to ensure the organization's security readiness and competitive advantage.
- Collaborates with the Information Security Leadership team, Cyber Defense, Compliance, Internal Investigations, Security Consulting, Technology Risk, Enterprise Technology, Client Technology, Legal, Risk Management, and Services Lines in the delivery and enablement of security capabilities.
- Directs product management and delivery activities aligned to EY’s technical standards and information security directives, drives best practices to enforce policies, oversees end-to-end management of technology capabilities to protect EY’s most sensitive data and information systems.
- Directs the identification and analysis of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to monitor appropriate performance by the team and services and proactively seeks opportunities for continuous improvement in operational readiness.
- Manages direct reports and staff aligned to the global security portfolio
Essential Functions of the Job:
- Manages and directs a cross-functional technical team made up of engineering, operations, and service management.
- Is a thought leader for the portfolio and identifies opportunities to improve services and end-user experience.
- Provides oversight and direction for operational budgets, forecasts, and metrics.
- Directing and motivating team members towards well-defined and critical goals
- Drives translation of security strategy into roadmaps of executable initiatives focused on enhanced security controls, user experience and design standards.
- Drives product lifecycle management for portfolio security technologies globally.
- Collaborates closely with Cybersecurity Enterprise Architecture and security technology leadership.
- Drives the use of appropriate Critical Success Factors (CSFs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure and monitor overall effectiveness and health of security services and security service enhancements.
- Influences stakeholders to achieve growth and product adoption, and drive processes to deliver solutions that satisfy the needs of customers.
- Cultivate and maintains industry relationships and grow existing stakeholder relationships as related to technology and security solutions.
- Drives innovative ideas, solutions and products through leadership and decisive action.
- Provide point of escalation for security technology requests including those that may require special handling and accommodation.
Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:
Successful candidate must:
- Make data-driven decisions, incorporating current security metrics, priorities, threat intelligence, and organizational risk appetite.
- Have advanced analytical acumen and solution orientation to influence or lead discussions in the specific implications of complex changes to security services that may impact the stability and protection to the global infrastructure.
- Possess critical thinking skills and the ability to quickly identify and understand where there are gaps or issues with service quality and to direct or propose changes to minimize reputational or operational risk as well as financial exposure.
- Be able to propose actions that are strategic in nature and that look