Director, Security Compliance (Remote)

Boston, MA

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1upHealth

1upHealth is healthcare's most complete FHIR platform to connect, control and compute data. It is best in class for use cases ranging: CMS compliance, quality measures, records collection, care coordination, pop health management.

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The Director, Security Compliance will function as 1upHealth’s Security Officer and will play an integral role in defining and assessing the organization's security strategy, architecture and practices and designing a security program that is tailored to support 1upHealth’s business needs. Reporting to the VP, Legal & Compliance, the Director, Security Compliance will work with all relevant internal stakeholders to determine business objectives and acceptable levels of risk for the organization, and to effectively translate those business objectives and risk management strategies into specific security policies and processes that ensures compliance with all  regulatory, legal and contractual requirements.
1up's core product is a fully-managed FHIR platform that brings modern data infrastructure (cloud-based, serverless, restful API, and more) along with the FHIR interoperability standards to help transform the industry.  1up sells across all segments - health plans, providers, pharma, digital health companies, and more.  

You will:

  • Develop, implement, and monitor a strategic, comprehensive security program (including all required policies and processes) that is tailored to 1upHealth and that  ensures appropriate levels of confidentiality, integrity, availability, safety, privacy, and recovery of information assets owned, controlled, stored, or/and processed by the organization.
  • Lead the security function across the company to ensure consistent and high-quality information security management in support of the business goals.
  • Develop and maintain a document framework of continuously up-to-date information security policies, standards and guidelines. Create a framework for roles and responsibilities about information ownership, classification, accountability and protection of information assets.
  • Collaborate and coordinate with Chief Technical Officer and other relevant internal stakeholders  on the product and engineering teams to ensure that security requirements are implicit in all internal processes and security is embedded into all product delivery and development processes, by providing the appropriate policies, practices and guidelines and ensuring that information.
  • Create a risk-based process for the assessment and mitigation of any security risk in the ecosystem consisting of supply chain partners, vendors, consumers and any other third parties.
  • Develop and lead best practices for business continuity planning, high availability and resiliency of mission critical services.
  • Support an ongoing communication plan and security awareness training program to educate and train employees, as well as, security and technology stakeholders, on the purpose and benefits of a Security Program.
  • Facilitate a metrics and reporting framework to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the program, facilitates appropriate resource allocation, and increases the maturity of the information security, and reviews it with relevant internal stakeholders.
  • Provide support to customer facing teams to ensure that all security requirements in commercial contracts are consistent with 1upHealth’s internal processes and policies

We are looking for people who have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering or the equivalent combination of education, training, or work experience. 
  • 8+  years of IT security , Security Architecture, and Security compliance and governance experience, preferably at a health tech organization.
  • Experience with assessment, development, implementation, optimization, and documentation of a comprehensive and broad set of security technologies and processes (secure software development (Application Security), data protection, cryptography, key management, identity and access management (IAM), network security) within SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud environments
  • Requires an advanced level of competency in risk management, security, regulatory compliance, and privacy practices., including advanced knowledge and comprehension of risk assessment and acceptance, exception management and security baselines (e.g., CIS Baselines, NIST, vendor security technical implementation guides, etc.)
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment
  • Broad understanding of healthcare trends - and a genuine curiosity to learn more
  • High energy-level, and highly adaptable in a startup environment
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity, 100% self-starter mindset
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About 1upHealthAt 1upHealth, our mission is to unlock health data and improve industry outcomes. As leaders in FHIR® interoperability, our platform makes it easier for partners to access, integrate, aggregate, and share data across a variety of systems. 1upHealth is building a data ecosystem to promote the digital transformation of the industry and encourage insight-driven healthcare.
We are proud to announce that we have been named 2022 Best Places to Work in the Small Company and Best Paying Company categories by Built In Boston.
Benefits100% Paid BCBS Medical and Dental Insurance for Employees Vision InsuranceUnlimited PTOEquity401(k)Home Office StipendCommuter StipendWellness ReimbursementParental Leave (16 weeks for birthing parents, 6 weeks for non-birthing parents)Company Meetings with Free Lunch
Interested in our work, but don't see an opening that fits your background? Apply here and let us know what you think we could do together.

Tags: APIs Application security Cloud Compliance Computer Science Cryptography Governance IaaS IAM Network security NIST PaaS Privacy Risk assessment Risk management SaaS Security strategy Strategy

Perks/benefits: Health care Home office stipend Medical leave Startup environment

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: United States
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