Senior Director, Rapid Innovation Team – Cyber Security
MSD
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Rahway • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $187,000 - $294,400 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudCyber SecurityGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonServiceNowTerraform
About the role
- Lead the technical assessment of emerging cybersecurity tools, platforms, and vendors for enterprise adoption
- Conduct in-depth due diligence on APIs, SDKs, telemetry, and integration to align with security posture
- Translate vendor claims into validated technical capabilities and enterprise-relevant outcomes
- Provide structured recommendations on the adoption strategy, verify enterprise fit, and determine long-term value
- Rapidly design and build proofs-of-concept to demonstrate integration feasibility and business impact
- Develop automation workflows, data pipelines, and cross-platform integrations using Python, REST APIs, SDKs, and orchestration frameworks
- Document outcomes, risks, and scaling considerations, ensuring prototypes can transition into enterprise engineering efforts
- Establish repeatable evaluation patterns so new technologies can be assessed quickly and consistently
- Define integration approaches that connect new platforms to enterprise control planes such as Microsoft Defender XDR, Sentinel, Entra ID, Zscaler, Wiz, ServiceNow, and CrowdStrike
- Architect secure and scalable designs that account for logging, monitoring, resiliency, failover, and governance requirements
- Collaborate with platform engineering and automation teams to mature successful prototypes into production-grade solutions
- Ensure all integrations align with enterprise frameworks, including Zero Trust, Protect the Enterprise, and Defend model initiatives
- Act as a trusted advisor to domain owners (IAM, Endpoint, Cloud, AppSec) on where and how new technologies enable value
- Interface with vendors, procurement, and enterprise platform owners to accelerate onboarding and adoption
- Provide technical leadership during cross-domain initiatives, ensuring innovations connect seamlessly into the broader security ecosystem
- Champion the use of automation and AI to reduce manual effort, accelerate response times, and improve enterprise resilience
- Partner with senior leadership to prioritize innovation initiatives that "move the needle" for CIO, CISO, and Compliance stakeholders
- Communicate technical findings and business value clearly across audiences, from engineering and IT teams to executive leadership
- Represent the Cyber Defense Automation & AI Engineering team in vendor discussions, enterprise working groups, and cross-functional projects
- Ensure all innovations meet regulatory compliance, risk management, and enterprise operational standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (Master’s degree preferred)
- 10+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering
- Broad experience across multiple security domains, including identity, endpoint, cloud, automation, data protection, and threat detection
- Strong background in cloud services to include AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate, onboard, and integrate new vendor technologies into large-scale enterprise environments
- Strong programming and automation skills (Python, APIs, SDKs, cloud automation frameworks, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CI/CD)
- Proven success in leading proofs-of-concept and scaling prototypes into production-ready designs
- Experience with Microsoft Defender Suite XDR, Sentinel, Zscaler, Wiz, Entra ID, ServiceNow, and/or comparable platforms
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels and communicate complex technical topics clearly
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where speed, precision, and impact are equally critical.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
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Hard skills
PythonAPIsSDKscloud automation frameworksInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCI/CDcybersecurityenterprise architectureplatform engineering
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationtechnical leadershipinfluencecollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityinnovation prioritizationrisk managementtechnical advisory