Security Engineer

Datavant is a rapidly growing healthcare technology company with a mission to connect the world’s health data. By eliminating data silos in the healthcare industry, we aim to unlock opportunities to accelerate clinical data exchange, medical research, and help organizations design better ways to facilitate access, affordability, and quality of care leading to better patient outcomes.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, fully remote team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We look for people who are smart, nice and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team (no office locations) and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs -- learn more here! 

Datavant handles some of the most sensitive information that exists, healthcare data. Our mission is to build the company and infrastructure that will handle the world’s healthcare data with best in class security and privacy. This is not just a security, but a company level goal. If you have been looking for a company that will back and truly prioritize a vision to have the best security capabilities, team and organization, we want to talk to you.

You Will:

• Be part of the team building and supporting a world-class and modern security function. This means implementing pragmatic and innovative security that accelerates our business, allowing them to move faster safely. Whether that is securing our product and applications, infrastructure or corporate devices. 
• Perform security assessments, risk reviews and tests to provide recommendations to our engineering and business teams. 
• Build software and systems to help scale our security capabilities and monitor these systems/process for continuous improvement
• Bridge our Security, Engineering and GTM teams to help us tell our security story to customers and the industry to help build trust in Datavant. 
• Evaluate, deploy and own tooling to meet security control requirements. 
• Review roadmaps, designs and specifications with our teams to help craft our organizational security requirements.
• Be an active voice crafting our long term plans and strategy for the security function.
• Partner with our engineering and business teams to educate and help them follow best practices to ensure we are secure.
• Develop metrics and reporting to demonstrate the status and progress of the security program.
• Be an active voice, not just at Datavant but the community to evangelize best security practices.
• Understand the security compliance and certification regimes affecting our company and how to implement them in a way that accelerates, rather than decellerates our business. (Eg, SOC2, HITRUST, FedRAMP, SOC, ISO27001, GDPR, HIPAA)
• Support ongoing success of existing compliance programs by participating in and/or executing audits. 
• Help define the future of compliance at Datavant.

What You Will Bring to the Table: 

• Strong interest or experience in at least one of the following: Product or Application Security, Enterprise/IT Security, Security GRC.
• Passionate about building a big business that transforms the healthcare industry
• Thrive in a fast-paced autonomous environment.
• Excited about the ambiguity of an entrepreneurial, rapidly growing company, and able to juggle many projects and responsibilities
• Great communication, prioritization, and project management skills. 
• Implemented automated tooling and self-service capabilities that improved the efficiency of security and support the company
• Knowledge of current threats, vulnerabilities and risks and how to mitigate them.
• Knowledge of security impacts and controls in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, Google)

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are smart, nice, and get things done where every Datavanter is empowered to bring their authentic self to their work. We are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.

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