Field CISO (Executive Technology Strategist)

The CDW Field CISO provides thought leadership in IT Security transformation while aligning security strategies with core business initiatives and processes to better leverage resources and infrastructure in achieving quantifiably tangible results. The Field CISO provides consultative leadership across the full range of technical aptitudes. The Field CISO candidate must demonstrate the ability to assess a client's business drivers for a given initiative and translate them into qualifiable, quantifiable and tactical solutions. This person identifies and qualifies business development across the organization while evangelizing sales and building a pipeline of both short-term and longer-term opportunities. The Field CISO provides recommendations pertaining to key objectives in which cutting edge technical solutions solve a given challenge. This person illustrates the alignment (or misalignment) between strategic goals and key business decisions regarding products and services; partners and suppliers; organizational requirements and capabilities; and key business and IT initiatives. The Field CISO works to develop an integrated view of the business by making technical recommendations pertaining to information gleaned from client engagements as well as solve problems by analyzing requirements and evaluating alternatives.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Act as a consultative strategist to the CISO, VP Cyber Security, Information Security Director, VP of Infrastructure, Chief Risk Offices and other key leadership.
• Provide consultative support of related opportunities across all geographies.
• Be a key technical advisor consulting on leading edge technologies and possess deep technical knowledge in the following pillars of technology: Zero Trust, SASE, ZTNA, EDR/MDR, Identity and Access Management, MicroSegmentation, Cloud technologies and security principals (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Deliver presentations to clients, potential clients, colleagues, and management which focus on business outcomes and the relationship to risks and security solutions
• Reports on the client needs, problems, interests, current market states, competitive activities, and potential for new products/services.
• Provides knowledgeable insight on competitive offerings, products, applications, services, market conditions, competitive activities, advertising, and promotional trends through the reading of pertinent literature and consulting with marketing and technical services.
• Demonstrate strategic time management and multitasking skills.
• Effectively accelerates opportunity pipeline with predictable business results that exceed revenue targets.
• Build and deliver technical documentation outlining: opportunity, discovered data, and recommendations.
• Identify and focus on priorities while appropriately setting expectations with client, colleagues and management.
• Ability to provide thought leadership based on customer requirements and restrictions.
• Attendance at Industry and CDW conferences, presenting on CISO-level topics of interest
• Excellent communication skills through creative writing, technical writing and oral interactions.
• Strong client service and interpersonal skills.
• Provide a high degree of collaboration with sales personnel. Involve appropriate resources to ensure the successful outcome of engagements and subsequent projects.
• Develop intellectual property (e.g., whitepapers, deliverable templates, solutions, case studies, etc.).
• Provide feedback to management groups regarding trends and opportunities.
• Participate in project definition, scope, objectives, risks and approach.
• Work closely with CDW engineers to formalize solutions that were discovered in CISO lead workshops.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer/technical related field or equivalent experience.
• Deep technical knowledge in the following pillars of technology: Zero Trust, SASE, ZTNA, EDR/MDR, Identity and Access Management, MicroSegmentation, Cloud technologies and security principals (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Ten or more years' experience in assessing business drivers and translating them into qualifiable, quantifiable and tactical solutions.
• Five or more years' experience establishing strategic direction.
• This position may require the ability to travel on average of 50%.

Required Qualifications

• High degree of organization and attention to detail.
• Exceptional technical and non-technical communications skills.
• Broad knowledge of IT infrastructure, applications, operating systems, high availability and IT communications.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, lead, build teams, work independently, and recommend business strategies.
• Exceptional meeting facilitation skills.
• Excellent creative writing, technical writing, and documentation skills.
• Strong business skills.
• Exceptional leadership and team skills.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
• Demonstrates skills in collaboration with virtual teams, cross-functional groups and is able to solve complex problems.
• Experience providing project oversight, management, technical leadership or engineer mentoring.
• Ability to understand, remember, and apply oral and/or written instructions or other information. Ability to organize thoughts and ideas into understandable terminology. Ability to multi-task, organize and prioritize. Ability to apply common sense in performing job. Ability to understand and follow basic instructions and guidelines. Ability to travel as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior security executive experience (VP Security / CISO) in industry
• Prior consulting experience