Sr. Lead Cybersecurity Analyst, Cybersecurity

How We Work At Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A,  Inc. ('Chick-fil-A' or 'the Company') Staff members play a vital role in achieving our strategic goals by developing their skills,  fostering inclusive teamwork,  and embracing innovation. All Staff are expected to contribute to a compelling future by inspiring and motivating those around them. Growth and development are essential at Chick-fil-A. We want Staff to seek new perspectives and adopt new methods to drive continuous improvement and adaptation to evolving business needs. Lastly,  we ask Staff to seek wisdom,  expect the best,  accept responsibility,  respond with courage,  and think others first. Our Flexible Futures Model offers a healthy mix of working in person (currently a minimum of 8-10 days per month) and virtually,  strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.

Join a small family of cybersecurity advisors who aid their colleagues across the company to become more aware of cybersecurity best practices in each user's role and projects while coordinating response to emergent system vulnerabilities. As part of Cybersecurity Consulting within the Digital Transformation and Technology (DTT) department’s cybersecurity team, you will serve as a trusted advisor to other teams by applying cybersecurity expertise across multiple domains. You will exercise initiative and influence while working independently with product, engineering, architecture, privacy, legal, and business teams. The role will advise on cybersecurity requirements for complex systems and initiatives, especially those involving mobile applications, cloud-hosted workloads, APIs, sensitive data, third-party integrations, and modern software delivery practices. You will help teams identify risks early, translate cybersecurity and privacy requirements into practical implementation guidance, and support secure-by-design decisions throughout the lifecycle of digital products and platforms. The role will also contribute to the continuous improvement of cybersecurity standards, secure development expectations, assessment methods, governance practices, and architecture patterns that help protect Chick-fil-A digital resources and information. You will be responsible to advise your colleagues on best practices to establish security in multiple business areas and remediate security gaps in existing projects that span all current and imagined technologies, especially in mobile and cloud environments. Your team's work encompasses the traditional functional cybersecurity practices of awareness training, information systems security management, risk assessments, and vulnerability management, so you will get to influence security strategies across all business areas of the company.

Know and independently apply broad comprehensive knowledge of cybersecurity best practices to the completion of highly complex assignments Own and manage responsibility for information systems security management as the primary cybersecurity consultant to one or more major DTT sub-departments.  Learn, advise, and collaborate on the security issues of that team’s technical projects, working independently on complex projects with support and mentoring by the team leader as needed. Provide cybersecurity guidance for mobile application security, secure authentication and authorization, API integrations, secure architectures, data protection, and vulnerability management. Advise department leadership on cybersecurity posture, develop and execute plans to ensure timely risk mitigation, oversee and coordinate security assessments and penetration testing engagements for the organization. Provide guidance on data protection concepts such as data classification, sensitive data handling, data minimization, encryption, tokenization, retention, disposal, and privacy-aware system design. Partner with product teams to ensure secure software development and engineering