Federal Cybersecurity, Risk, and Authorization Leadership
• Serve as the Federal Accounts subject matter expert for federal cybersecurity, information assurance, technology compliance, and security authorization requirements affecting Varian solutions.
• Support leadership and cross-functional teams with Federal cybersecurity, compliance, and authorization requirements, including DoD RMF, NIST SP 800-37 and SP 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP, ATO, ERA, ATC, MOU-ISA, continuous monitoring, and vulnerability management, while coordinating technical readiness reviews, documentation, risk assessments, stakeholder inputs, and technical validation activities that support authorization efforts.
• Track evolving federal policies and approval status for products and versions; assess business and technical impacts, communicate requirements, and support risk mitigation and Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) development.
• Provide cybersecurity and compliance guidance during proposals, contracting, project planning, implementation, modernization, and lifecycle sustainment, including situations in which product approval has not yet been obtained.
Government IT Architecture and Connectivity
• Serve as technical advisor for federal network integration, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity design, and infrastructure dependencies involving Active Directory, SQL Server, virtualization, PKI and certificate services, firewalls, cloud services, secure remote access, system interfaces, and network-connected medical devices.
• Support DHA Business-to-Business (B2B), site-to-site connectivity, VPN, digital certificate, network access, MOU/ISA, and ATC initiatives and coordinate directly with customer IT and cybersecurity organizations.
• Review proposed deployment and integration architectures to identify dependencies, cybersecurity considerations, implementation risks, and barriers before execution, and guide teams toward workable, compliant solutions.
Product Modernization and Technical Strategy
• Support strategic planning and modernization involving Radiation Oncology software upgrades, treatment delivery systems, other medical devices, cloud solutions, database migrations and consolidations, platform transitions, infrastructure improvements, and enterprise integration.
• Evaluate architecture, infrastructure, integration, and cybersecurity impacts associated with new products, software versions, connected devices, cloud-hosted designs, and emerging technologies.
• Represent federal customer requirements, infrastructure constraints, authorization needs, and deployment dependencies to Product Management, Engineering, Product Security, Regulatory, Service, and Installations to influence product roadmaps, technical designs, and adoption strategies.
Customer, Executive, and Cross-Functional Engagement
• Build trusted relationships with federal customer leadership, CIO organizations, information security officers, cybersecurity officials, and technical stakeholders, representing Varian as a credible advisor on technology, compliance, integration, and modernization.
• Translate complex technical and cybersecurity issues for technical and non-technical audiences and support executive briefings, cybersecurity reviews, customer meetings, strategic planning, and issue escalation.
• Provide cross-coverage and technical support for other Federal Accounts resources when needed to maintain continuity of customer support and program execution while preserving established ownership and accountability.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert and escalation resource for Federal Accounts, partnering with Service, Engineering, Product Management, Cybersecurity and customer stakeholders to investigate, troubleshoot, and support the resolution of complex software, infrastructure, connectivity, cybersecurity, and product-related issues impacting customer operations and solution deployment.
Process, Documentation, and Knowledge Management
• Develop and maintain Federal Accounts IT and Cybersecurity standard operating procedures, technical guidance, templates, training materials, and customer-facing resources.
• Create repeatable processes that streamline authorization, product approval, technology deployment, risk management, and organizational knowledge sharing across federal programs.