Choice Hotels

Who are we looking for?

Choice Hotels, one of the world’s largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as the Director, Information Security in the Information Security team. The Information Security team proactively addresses security, and your role will be to work with our business and technology partners to integrate and maintain security best practices into the software development lifecycle. As a key member of Information Security, you will lead the application security program, penetration testing efforts, and build cybersecurity reliability engineering initiatives to mitigate risks, enhance resilience, and align to our business objectives and standards.

Do you want to lead the way in how Information Security is implemented and maintained at Choice Hotels? Are you a leader who embraces DevSecOps, mentors your team, and partners across the organization to implement security concepts? We invite you to apply for our Director – Information Security role today and #MakeItYourChoice.

Your Responsibilities

• Serve as a catalyst for innovation within the organization, drive new security initiatives and encourage a culture of continuous improvement
• Develop and implement a comprehensive application security strategy to secure software applications across the enterprise
• Establish and lead penetration testing (pen testing) programs to proactively identify and remediate security vulnerabilities across applications, infrastructure, and cloud environments
• Develop automated and manual testing strategies, including web applications, API, mobile, and network penetration testing
• Establish Cybersecurity Reliability Engineering principles to ensure the availability, integrity, and resilience of critical security functions and applications

Your Experience, Skills & Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Management Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree in related field preferred but not required
• At least 10 years’ experience in information security or software development
• Experience with Amazon Web Services, CI/CD pipelines, and related tools, Snyk, Jenkins, Terraform, Harness, CloudFormation
• Demonstrates the ability to collaborate cross functionally, lead a cross functional discipline, and partner with IT work to deliver quality, secure, and efficient software products

Your Team

This is a leadership role that will report to the Senior Director Information Security. You will have 4 direct report(s) and collaborate with cross functional departments on a regular basis.

Your Work Location

As our Director – Information Security, you will be based in our beautiful, state-of-the-art technology hub in Scottsdale, AZ. In October 2021, Choice opened a newly constructed world class technology center.

About Choice

Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With nearly 7,500 hotels, representing nearly 630,000 rooms, in 46 countries and territories, with a range of high-quality lodging options from limited service to full-service hotels in the upper upscale, upper mid-scale, midscale, extended-stay, and economy segments. We’re the hotel company for those who choose to bet on themselves – the underdog, the dreamer, the entrepreneur – because that’s who we are, too.

At Choice, we are united by the simple belief that tomorrow will be even better than today – for associates, our company, and our franchisees. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, MD and St. Louis Park, MN as well as our technology center in Scottsdale, AZ, and through our associates around the globe, every voice is heard, and every idea is listened to, no matter what area of the company they come from. We are united in supporting the entrepreneurial dreams of our more than 18,000 franchise owners, which propels us forward – giving our work at Choice a purpose larger than our business.

Ability to model Choice’s Cultural Values: Welcome and Respect Everyone, Be Bold, Be Quick, Listen, Be Curious and Show Integrity.