Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cigna Healthcare is seeking a senior cybersecurity and technology leader to lead enterprise security architecture and engineering. The role is responsible for embedding security across cloud, applications, infrastructure, and emerging technologies while delivering cybersecurity platforms and services for protection, detection, response, identity, cloud security, and cyber operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead Security Architecture & Engineering as an enterprise capability, that advances secure-by-design technology practices and delivers cybersecurity engineering capabilities that protect the enterprise
- Establish and govern security architecture standards, reference architectures, and design patterns across applications, cloud, infrastructure, and platform services
- Ensure security is embedded early and consistently across the technology delivery lifecycle through secure-by-design and DevSecOps practices
- Drive engineering outcomes that are scalable, resilient, automated, and aligned to modern cloud-native and platform-based architectures
- Own the strategy, architecture, roadmap, modernization, and delivery of core cybersecurity platforms and services that enable enterprise security operations, reduce complexity, and improve risk outcomes
- Lead engineering teams responsible for designing, implementing, integrating, automating, and lifecycle-managing security technologies, reusable services, APIs, and engineering capabilities across identity, endpoint, cloud, application, network, data, detection, and response domains
- Establish platform engineering practices and metrics that improve reliability, scalability, performance, resiliency, adoption, operational efficiency, and user experience across the cybersecurity technology portfolio
- Define and advance secure cloud adoption strategies across multi-cloud and hybrid environments (e.g., AWS, Azure)
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, and application leaders to ensure secure configuration, architecture, and operation of platforms
- Lead the development of guardrails and controls that enable speed while enforcing security and compliance requirements
- Promote infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, automated security controls across environments, and reusable cloud-native security patterns across environments
- Establish security architecture and controls for AI/GenAI solutions, including model governance, data protection, and responsible AI practices
- Partner with enterprise AI and data teams to enable secure adoption of advanced analytics, machine learning, and automation capabilities
- Evaluate emerging technologies and integrate them into security and engineering strategies in a way that balances innovation with risk management
- Drive AI-enabled security capabilities, automation, and engineering solutions that enhance detection, response, security operations, decision-making, and cyber defense outcomes
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior technology and business leaders on security architecture, cloud risk, and investment priorities
- Ensure alignment of architecture and engineering decisions with enterprise cybersecurity frameworks, standards, and regulatory requirements
- Partner with risk, compliance, and audit teams to ensure appropriate controls and governance are embedded across platforms
- Provide clear, executive-level communication on security posture, architecture direction, and key risks
- Develop and execute a multi-year cybersecurity platform strategy that simplifies the tooling portfolio, improves engineering excellence, advances automation, and aligns investment planning and lifecycle management to measurable business outcomes
- Build and mentor leadership talent within the organization, ensuring succession depth and strong engagement
- Foster a culture that balances strong risk management with business enablement and innovation
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required
- 12+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, cloud engineering, or technology leadership roles
- Proven experience leading enterprise-level security architecture, secure engineering, and cybersecurity platform delivery functions within complex, regulated environments
- Deep expertise across: Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, hybrid architectures); Security architecture frameworks (NIST, ISO, CIS, etc.); Application, infrastructure, identity, and data security domains
- Demonstrated experience advancing modern engineering practices (cloud-native, DevSecOps, automation, API-driven architectures)
- Familiarity with AI/ML security considerations, data protection, and emerging technology risk management
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across a matrixed organization
- Experience operating in globally distributed environments with internal and external partners
- Master's degree or MBA preferred
- Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSP) preferred
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in an annual bonus and long term incentive plan.
- Medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs starting on day one of employment.
- 401(k).
- Company paid life insurance.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- A minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year.
- Paid holidays.
- Leaves of absence.
- Remote/Work From Home for the right candidate.
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