Director, Information Security Office Consultant

ITSMF; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 269,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Capital One seeks a Director, Information Security Office Consultant to lead cybersecurity governance, risk transformation, and capability maturation in a fast-paced environment. You will guide senior managers, shape risk-based decisions, and drive strategic security initiatives across the organization.

The role offers high-visibility leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and opportunities to influence security posture, metrics, and incident response at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in cybersecurity, IT, or related field.
• 9+ years of cybersecurity or IT experience.
• 8+ years evaluating or supporting cybersecurity capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to senior managers and associates to build a high-performing cybersecurity organization.
• Advise on risk reduction by configuring cybersecurity tools and platforms.
• Develop and standardize capability, risk, and threat classification frameworks.
• Support continuous improvement programs including risk and action tracking.
• Identify cross-programmatic linkages among threats, controls, tooling, and data analytics.
• Lead solutioning for large-scale enterprise risk reduction efforts.
• Communicate gaps and remediation options to leadership.
• Oversee enterprise cybersecurity risk assessments and maturity evaluations.
• Direct cross-functional governance initiatives aligning risk, engineering, and compliance.

Skills

Cybersecurity governance

Risk management

Threat intelligence

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Multi-cloud

Security tools

Incident analysis

Metrics & dashboards

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Splunk

CrowdStrike

Qualys

AWS Security Hub

Power BI

Job description

Director, Information Security Office Consultant

Do you love building and pioneering in the technology space? Do you enjoy solving complex business problems in a fast-paced, collaborative, inclusive, and risk-conscious delivery environment? At Capital One, you'll be part of a big group of makers, breakers, doers and disruptors who love to solve real problems and meet real customer needs. We are seeking Cyber Security Professionals who are passionate about evaluating cyber capabilities, threat intelligence, and risk management to join our team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to be on the forefront of driving cybersecurity governance, capability maturation, and risk transformation across Capital One.

What You’ll Do:

• Provide strategic leadership and coaching to senior managers and associates, setting direction, developing talent, and building a high-performing cybersecurity organization
• Serve as a cybersecurity subject matter expert and advise on best practices in risk reduction through the configuration of cybersecurity tools and platforms
• Support the development, modification, and use of capability, risk, and/or threat classification frameworks and standardization methodologies to facilitate the conduct of correlative capability, maturity, and effectiveness evaluations
• Support the development, implementation, and execution of continuous improvement programs, including risk and issue identification, corrective action implementation, and results validation
• Support the identification and operationalization of cross-programmatic linkages among a.) threats and risks, b.) controls, capabilities, and tooling, and c.) data analytics in order to facilitate initiative prioritization and decisioning on spending and resource allocation
• Lead solutioning for, and manage activities in response to, large-scale enterprise risk reduction efforts
• Effectively communicate the impact of identified operational, compliance, process, control, and tooling gaps and potential remediation courses of action to multiple audiences, including leadership, to support the enhancement of their cybersecurity postures
• Oversee enterprise-level cybersecurity risk assessments and maturity evaluations, ensuring integration of results into strategic planning and business decision-making
• Direct cross-functional cyber governance initiatives to align risk management, engineering, and compliance functions with organizational strategy

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• At least 9 years of experience in cybersecurity or information technology
• At least 8 years of experience evaluating, contributing to, or supporting development of cybersecurity capabilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• 9+ years of experience with cybersecurity frameworks and concepts such as NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, CMMC, FedRAMP, etc.
• 9+ years of experience performing analysis of or developing solutions for cyber threats, vulnerabilities, risks, or, events
• 9+ years of experience working on teams and presenting to stakeholders cybersecurity information such as metrics, threat intelligence, controls or requirements
• 8+ years of experience working in multi-cloud environments
• 8+ years of experience using security tools (e.g., Splunk, Crowdstrike, Qualys, or AWS Security Hub)
• 6+ years of experience with data ecosystems, applications, privacy, and compliance
• 6+ years of experience with API Security
• 5+ years of experience with DataLake and Consumption Tools
• 5+ years of experience with File Transfer systems
• 5+ years of experience with integrating SaaS products into an Enterprise Environment
• 5+ years of people management experience
• 4+ years of experience developing or interpreting cybersecurity metrics or dashboards
• 4+ years of experience developing and overseeing cybersecurity or technology risk programs
• Demonstrated familiarity with industry risk governance or financial risk governance processes
• Ability to perform security incident analysis and assist with resolution, translating technical findings into clear, actionable reports for technical and non-technical stakeholders

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization, or offer any immigration related support for this position (e.g. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, E-3, and O-1, or any other forms of work authorization that require immigration support from an employer).

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

McLean, VA: $269,100 - $307,200 for Director, Cyber Security

New York, NY: $293,600 - $335,100 for Director, Cyber Security

Richmond, VA: $244,700 - $279,200 for Director, Cyber Security

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non discretionary depending on the plan.

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial and other benefits that support your total well-being. Learn more at the Capital One Careers website. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. No agencies please. Capital One is an equal opportunity employer (EOE, including disability/vet) committed to non-discrimination in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City’s Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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