Information Security Risk and Governance Specialist, Consultant

Blue Shield of CA; Rancho Cordova (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Stellarus is seeking an Information Security Risk and Governance Specialist to translate regulatory, contractual, policy, and security requirements into sustainable governance and control practices.

The role supports IT risk governance within the Information Security Compliance organization, maturing the function and ensuring audit readiness across policy, regulations and control standards, with a focus on healthcare information security context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Understanding of security assurance and trust frameworks (NIST, HIPAA, SOC 2).
• Experience interacting with auditors and explaining technical concepts.
• Ability to communicate with customers and internal teams.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; agile mindset.
• Proven ability to manage projects to completion.
• Translate complex concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge in risk management, critical thinking and decision-making.
• Intermediate healthcare information security governance, risk and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Translate regulatory, contractual, policy and security requirements into sustainable governance and control practices.
• Support IT services governance and maturation within the Compliance function; ensure IT audit-readiness with policy and control standards.

Skills

7+ years experience

Security frameworks

Auditing experience

Communication

Project management

Non-technical translation

Risk management

Healthcare security

Knowledge management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Your Role

The Information Security Team is seeking an Information Security Risk and Governance Specialist. In this role, you will be supporting Stellarus by helping translate regulatory, contractual, policy, and security requirements into sustainable and measurable governance and control practices.

Stellarus recognizes that IT Services are crucial, strategic, organizational assets and therefore we must invest appropriate levels of resource into the support, delivery and management of these critical IT Services and the IT systems that underpin them.

This position has responsivities within the Information Security Compliance organization, for maturing the Compliance function, ensuring IT audit-readiness with policy, regulations and control standards.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience
• Understanding of and experience working with security assurance and trust frameworks (in particular NIST, HIPAA and SOC 2)
• Experience interacting with internal/external auditors and explaining technical concepts
• Ability to communicate effectively with customers and internal teams
• Superior organizational skills, extraordinary attention to detail, and an agile mindset that processes can always be improved
• Proven ability to manage projects and deliverables to completion
• Ability to understand and contextualize complex technical concepts into terms readily understandable by a non-technical audience
• Satisfactory knowledge and skills including technical or functional expertise, business acumen and financial analysis skills, risk management, critical thinking and decision-making skills.
• Intermediate understanding of healthcare information security governance, risk, and compliance practices
• Ability to learn and understand Stellarus' security controls and to maintain a security knowledge base that can be used for multiple projects

Additionally, candidate must be able to:

• Demonstrate personal commitment to change through actions and words, and mobilize others to support change through times of stress and uncertainty
• Foster a team culture of continuous improvement, mentoring and learning, data driven decisions, and accountability for delivery of key metrics and deliverables
• Breakdown raw information and undefined problems into specific, workable components that in-turn clearly identifies the issues at hand
• Make logical conclusions, anticipates obstacles and considers different approaches that are relevant to the decision-making process
• Improve organizational performance though the application of original thinking to existing and emerging methods, processes, products and services

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