Deputy CISO and Cybersecurity Architect

Location

680 Lake Shore Drive

Job Description

General Summary:

The Deputy CISO / Cybersecurity Architect provides executive leadership for the hospital's cybersecurity transformation and enterprise security architecture. This role owns the target-state security design, multi-year roadmap, and prioritization, and leads the development of a scalable, sustainable, and internally owned security program. The position serves as the CISO's principal deputy for security strategy and architecture, ensuring security capabilities align with clinical operations, digital initiatives, and regulatory requirements.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead development and governance of the enterprise cybersecurity target-state architecture and transformation roadmap.
• Establish and mature a scalable, internally owned security operating model and delivery capability.
• Serve as the technical lead to senior risk leaders, providing the technical guidance and risk-modeling required for executive decision-making.
• Define and enforce security architecture standards across cloud, on-prem, identity, network, endpoint, application, and data environments.
• Drive the technical execution of security initiatives ensuring they are architecturally sound and sustainable.
• Partner with IT, Digital, Clinical, and Infrastructure leadership to embed security into technology delivery and operations.
• Serve as executive decision authority for security architecture, risk tradeoffs, and technical strategy.
• Support executive and board-level communications on security strategy, risk posture, and transformation progress.
• Ensure alignment with healthcare regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, NIST, PCI).
• Build and mature internal security architecture and engineering capabilities, including roles, skills, and operating processes.
• Establish metrics and reporting for overall cyber program, security maturity, risk identification, risk reduction, and program performance.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity leadership, security architecture, or security transformation roles.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise security architecture, cloud security, identity and access management, detection and response, and network/endpoint security.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale, multi-year security modernization programs.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including board and senior leadership engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business and clinical needs into practical, risk-based security strategies.
• Experience operating in healthcare or highly regulated environments preferred.
• Knowledge of relevant frameworks and regulations, including NIST, HIPAA, and PCI.
• Ability to build and lead high-performing technical and architectural teams.
• Strategic, systems-level thinking combined with hands-on technical credibility.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CCSP) preferred.

Education

Pay Range
$180,960.00-$298,584.00 Salary

At Lurie Children's, we are committed to competitive and fair compensation aligned with market rates and internal equity, reflecting individual contributions, experience, and expertise. The pay range for this job indicates minimum and maximum targets for the position. Ranges are regularly reviewed to stay aligned with market conditions. In addition to base salary, Lurie Children's offer a comprehensive rewards package that may include differentials for some hourly employees, leadership incentives for select roles, health and retirement benefits, and wellbeing programs. For more details on other compensation, consult your recruiter or click the following link to learn more about our benefits.

Benefit Statement

For full time and part time employees who work 20 or more hours per week we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Employer paid group term life and disability

Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave

403(b) with a 5% employer match

Various voluntary benefits:

• Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
• Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Tuition assistance
• Student loan servicing and support
• Adoption benefits
• Backup Childcare and Eldercare
• Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
• Discount on services at Lurie Children's facilities
• Discount purchasing program