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Senior Director, Security Engineering & Architecture Jobs in Atlanta, GA at Insight Global
Title: Senior Director, Security Engineering & Architecture
Company: Insight Global
Location: Atlanta, GA
Sr. Director, Security Engineering & Architecture
MUST be open to onsite work
Role Overview
The Cybersecurity Engineering & Architecture team designs, governs, implements, and continuously improves the technical security capabilities that protect Insight Global’s people, data, platforms, clients, and business operations. The function partners closely with Cyber Operations, Governance/Risk/Compliance, Identity & Access Management, IT, Cloud, Network, Endpoint, Enterprise Architecture, Legal, Finance, Internal Audit, Strategic Sourcing, and business leadership to make security effective, scalable, operationally sound, and aligned to business priorities.
We are seeking a Senior Director of Security Engineering & Architecture to lead the enterprise security engineering and architecture function, own the multi-year technical security strategy and roadmap, and serve as a senior advisor to the CISO, technology executives, and business leadership. This role is accountable for translating cybersecurity strategy into architecture direction, engineering priorities, enterprise standards, delivery plans, and measurable risk reduction across a complex and evolving enterprise environment. As the CISO’s external commitments grow, this role serves as the internal anchor for the cybersecurity function, ensuring that engineering, architecture, governance support, and emerging risk programs continue to deliver without interruption.
This role leads through both people and influence. The Senior Director manages managers and senior technical talent, develops the next layer of security leadership, and acts as the decision-integration point when security questions span multiple domains, teams, or business units. The role requires executive judgment, practical risk-based decision-making, and the ability to create clarity where ownership, urgency, or technical direction is ambiguous. Scope in this role is expected to evolve with the business, and the right candidate will be comfortable absorbing new responsibilities as organizational needs change.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 15+ years of experience across cybersecurity engineering, security architecture, cloud/infrastructure, identity, network security, platform engineering, or related technical domains.
- 8+ years of leadership experience, including experience managing managers and leading multi-discipline security or technology teams in enterprise environments.
- Demonstrated experience owning multi-year security strategy, architecture direction, technical roadmaps, or large-scale security transformation programs.
- Experience advising executive leadership on security matters tied to business transactions, such as acquisitions, strategic partnerships, client contracts, or major vendor decisions.
- Strong working knowledge across multiple security domains such as cloud security, identity and access management, endpoint security, network security, logging/SIEM, data protection, application security, vulnerability management, and governance/control alignment.
- Experience operating in a risk-informed environment where practical tradeoffs, stakeholder alignment, and business enablement are required alongside security rigor.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, resolve ambiguity, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, and drive decisions across teams that do not directly report into the role.
- Experience building, scaling, or maturing teams, operating models, engineering standards, hiring practices, or career development frameworks.
Preferred Experience
- Experience with Microsoft security and productivity platforms including Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Purview, and related Microsoft cloud security capabilities.
- Experience with regulated environments, audits, or control frameworks such as CMMC, SOC 2, NIST CSF, NIST 800-171, CIS Controls, ISO 27001, or comparable standards.
- Experience with cloud and hybrid environments across Azure, AWS, SaaS platforms, endpoint management, and enterprise network architectures.
- Experience evaluating or implementing AI security, AI governance, AI observability, data classification, DLP, non-human identity controls, or secure agentic AI development practices.
- Experience leading technical due diligence for M&A, advising on client-facing security requirements or security questionnaire risk, or driving vendor rationalization and enterprise technology investment decisions.
- Experience supporting executive or Board-level risk reporting.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC, CRISC, or similar are helpful but not required.
