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Elevance Health · 4 hours ago

Executive Advisor -Business Information Security Officer

Indianapolis, IN

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

10+ years exp

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities, and they are seeking an Executive Advisor - Business Information Security Officer. This role involves leading information security and risk management for an assigned business unit, acting as the primary contact for security matters, and ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.

Health CareHealth InsurancePersonal HealthWellness

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Leads Information Security and Risk Management for an assigned Business Unit

Leads Information Security and Technology Risk Management for an assigned Business Unit, ensuring alignment with enterprise security strategy, business objectives, and regulatory obligations

Serves as the primary business-facing point of contact for information security and technology risk matters, coordinating enterprise security capabilities and services as needed

Acts as a key leadership contact during incident response activities, ensuring effective business engagement, executive communication, and post-incident remediation

Owns the development and execution of the Business Unit security roadmap, aligned with enterprise priorities, business strategy, and defined risk tolerance

Identifies, prioritizes, and recommends opportunities to reduce risk and improve security outcomes through targeted assessments, continuous monitoring, and metrics-driven analysis

Participates in enterprise planning activities, including vendor and third-party risk assessment, technology platform selection and retirement, security architecture alignment, prioritization, and integration planning

Serves as the Information Security and Technology Risk lead for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, including due diligence, integration planning, and risk remediation

Establishes and participates in governance forums to assess, accept, mitigate, or escalate technology risk in alignment with enterprise risk management practices

Provides security leadership for healthcare regulatory and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST, state privacy laws), ensuring audit readiness and sustained compliance

Defines, tracks, and reports meaningful security and risk metrics to business and executive stakeholders to support informed decision-making

Acts as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert to executive management, translating technical and cyber risk into clear business and financial impact

Influences business and technology leaders to adopt secure-by-design practices and risk-aware decision-making without direct operational authority

Mentors and develops security and risk management capabilities within the Business Unit and across enterprise teams

Must be capable of providing top-tier support for 6 or more of the information security technology common body of knowledge skill sets: 1) Access Control, 2) Application Security, 3) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, 4) Cryptography, 5) Information Security and Risk Management 6) Legal, Regulations, 7) Compliance and Investigations, 8) Operations Security, 9) Physical (Environmental) Security, 10) Security Architecture and Design, 11) Telecommunications and Network Security

Qualification

Information SecurityRisk ManagementCompliance HIPAACompliance HITRUSTSecurity ArchitectureIncident ResponseAccess ManagementNetwork SecuritySecurity Certifications (CISSP)LeadershipMentoringCommunicationCollaboration

Required

Requires BS/BA in Information Technology or related field of study

Minimum of 10 years experience in systems administration and security aspects of information systems, access management and network security technologies, network communications, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management, hardware, software, data, and people

Experience with multiple technical and business disciplines required

Preferred

Broad-based experience to plan and design highly complex systems is strongly preferred

Expert knowledge and understanding of industry-accepted data processing controls and concepts strongly preferred as applied to Security Certifications: CISSP preferred and other advanced technical security certifications (e.g. Information Systems Security Architecture Professional, Information Systems Security Engineering Professional, Certification and Accreditation or equivalent certifications)

Benefits

Merit increases

Paid holidays

Paid Time Off

Incentive bonus programs

Medical

Dental

Vision

Short and long term disability benefits

401(k) +match

Stock purchase plan

Life insurance

Wellness programs

Financial education resources

Company

Elevance Health

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Elevance Health is an integrated whole-health approach to help people in health journey and address their full range of needs.

Founded in 1944

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.elevancehealth.com

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