Center Director Jobs in Massachusetts
Center Director jobs in Massachusetts are in strong demand, with active hiring in early education and childcare, community health, behavioral health, and workforce development programs from entry-level assistant director roles through senior executive directors. Boston, Worcester, and Springfield account for the largest share of openings, where established organizations like Bright Horizons, Community Healthlink, and Hebrew SeniorLife regularly seek experienced directors. The most in-demand specialties are early childhood program leadership, community health center administration, and substance use disorder treatment management. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Security Operations Center (SOC) is responsible for leading the cybersecurity operations function for a rapidly evolving healthcare business, ensuring the organization can effectively detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats. By establishing strong operational processes, actionable threat intelligence, and effective response capabilities, the position helps protect critical business operations, sensitive data, and customer trust.
As the leader of the SOC function, this role is accountable for building and maturing security operations capabilities that balance security, scalability, and business agility. The Lead Director partners closely with infrastructure, cloud, identity, engineering, and business leaders to strengthen cyber resilience and prepare the organization for emerging threats. Through strong leadership, operational discipline, and continuous improvement, this position helps ensure cybersecurity remains an enabler of growth while reducing risk in a highly regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Security Operations Leadership
- Lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of the Security Operations Center, including threat monitoring, detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting activities.
- Establish operational processes, service levels, metrics, and reporting to measure effectiveness and support informed decision-making.
- Build and mature SOC capabilities that align security operations to business priorities, risk tolerance, and growth objectives.
- Ensure operational readiness, escalation procedures, and effective coordination during cybersecurity events and incidents.
Threat Detection & Incident Response
- Serve as the primary escalation point for significant cyber incidents and coordinate response efforts across technical and business stakeholders.
- Drive improvements in detection engineering, investigation processes, and response workflows to reduce risk and improve response times.
- Leverage automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve operational efficiency and strengthen cyber defense outcomes.
Cybersecurity Strategy & Resilience
- Develop and maintain security operations standards, processes, and controls aligned with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Lead initiatives that strengthen cyber resilience, incident preparedness, ransomware response readiness, and recovery capabilities.
- Provide leadership with visibility into threat activity, operational performance, emerging risks, and strategic recommendations.
- Support regulatory, audit, and risk management activities related to cybersecurity operations.
Cloud, Identity & Platform Security
- Lead security operations across cloud, endpoint, identity, and network environments.
- Drive the effective use and continuous optimization of security technologies supporting monitoring, detection, investigation, and response functions.
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, identity, and engineering teams to improve security visibility, response capabilities, and overall security posture.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring and threat detection coverage across critical systems, applications, and business services.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of security operations professionals.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and career development opportunities to strengthen team capability and succession depth.
- Align team priorities and resources to evolving business needs, threat landscapes, and organizational objectives.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through process optimization, automation, and standardization.
- Establish meaningful metrics and reporting that demonstrate operational performance, effectiveness, and risk reduction.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the maturity, scalability, and effectiveness of security operations capabilities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across technology and business functions to ensure security operations remains aligned with organizational priorities.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience within medium-large scale environments.
- 5+ years leading Security Operations Center (SOC), Incident Response, Cyber Defense, or Threat Detection teams.
- 5+ years of Sexperience operating and optimizing enterprise security platforms, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and security automation technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Wirespeed.
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience building, managing, and maturing security operations capabilities, including security monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and security investigations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting cloud-native and hybrid security operations across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Security technologies, including Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, and Entra ID, as well as Google Security Command Center.
- Experience implementing security automation, orchestration, AI-enabled security operations, or operational workflow optimization within a SOC environment.
- Strong knowledge of Zero Trust architecture, identity security, vulnerability management, cyber resilience, and ransomware response preparedness.
- Proven ability to lead teams, establish operational metrics, and communicate cybersecurity risks, incident impacts, and program performance to senior leadership.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC certifications, Microsoft Security certifications (SC-100, SC-200), Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or CrowdStrike Falcon Certification
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/30/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Security Operations Center (SOC) is responsible for leading the cybersecurity operations function for a rapidly evolving healthcare business, ensuring the organization can effectively detect, investigate, respond to, and recover from cybersecurity threats. By establishing strong operational processes, actionable threat intelligence, and effective response capabilities, the position helps protect critical business operations, sensitive data, and customer trust.
As the leader of the SOC function, this role is accountable for building and maturing security operations capabilities that balance security, scalability, and business agility. The Lead Director partners closely with infrastructure, cloud, identity, engineering, and business leaders to strengthen cyber resilience and prepare the organization for emerging threats. Through strong leadership, operational discipline, and continuous improvement, this position helps ensure cybersecurity remains an enabler of growth while reducing risk in a highly regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Security Operations Leadership
- Lead the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of the Security Operations Center, including threat monitoring, detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting activities.
- Establish operational processes, service levels, metrics, and reporting to measure effectiveness and support informed decision-making.
- Build and mature SOC capabilities that align security operations to business priorities, risk tolerance, and growth objectives.
- Ensure operational readiness, escalation procedures, and effective coordination during cybersecurity events and incidents.
Threat Detection & Incident Response
- Serve as the primary escalation point for significant cyber incidents and coordinate response efforts across technical and business stakeholders.
- Drive improvements in detection engineering, investigation processes, and response workflows to reduce risk and improve response times.
- Leverage automation, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities to improve operational efficiency and strengthen cyber defense outcomes.
Cybersecurity Strategy & Resilience
- Develop and maintain security operations standards, processes, and controls aligned with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.
- Lead initiatives that strengthen cyber resilience, incident preparedness, ransomware response readiness, and recovery capabilities.
- Provide leadership with visibility into threat activity, operational performance, emerging risks, and strategic recommendations.
- Support regulatory, audit, and risk management activities related to cybersecurity operations.
Cloud, Identity & Platform Security
- Lead security operations across cloud, endpoint, identity, and network environments.
- Drive the effective use and continuous optimization of security technologies supporting monitoring, detection, investigation, and response functions.
- Partner with cloud, infrastructure, identity, and engineering teams to improve security visibility, response capabilities, and overall security posture.
- Ensure appropriate monitoring and threat detection coverage across critical systems, applications, and business services.
Leadership & Talent Development
- Build, develop, and lead a high-performing team of security operations professionals.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.
- Provide mentorship, coaching, and career development opportunities to strengthen team capability and succession depth.
- Align team priorities and resources to evolving business needs, threat landscapes, and organizational objectives.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency through process optimization, automation, and standardization.
- Establish meaningful metrics and reporting that demonstrate operational performance, effectiveness, and risk reduction.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the maturity, scalability, and effectiveness of security operations capabilities.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across technology and business functions to ensure security operations remains aligned with organizational priorities.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience within medium-large scale environments.
- 5+ years leading Security Operations Center (SOC), Incident Response, Cyber Defense, or Threat Detection teams.
- 5+ years of Sexperience operating and optimizing enterprise security platforms, including SIEM, EDR/XDR, SOAR, and security automation technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Falcon, and Wirespeed.
- 3+ years of demonstrated experience building, managing, and maturing security operations capabilities, including security monitoring, threat hunting, incident response, digital forensics, and security investigations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting cloud-native and hybrid security operations across Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Security technologies, including Sentinel, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, and Entra ID, as well as Google Security Command Center.
- Experience implementing security automation, orchestration, AI-enabled security operations, or operational workflow optimization within a SOC environment.
- Strong knowledge of Zero Trust architecture, identity security, vulnerability management, cyber resilience, and ransomware response preparedness.
- Proven ability to lead teams, establish operational metrics, and communicate cybersecurity risks, incident impacts, and program performance to senior leadership.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, GIAC certifications, Microsoft Security certifications (SC-100, SC-200), Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or CrowdStrike Falcon Certification
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/30/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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Top Industries Hiring
- Education
- Sports & Recreation
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Medical Devices
What Massachusetts Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in center director jobs across Massachusetts.
- Active Massachusetts child care program director certificate or relevant state credential where required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in education, public health, social work, or related field
- Minimum three to five years of program or facility management experience
- Demonstrated experience managing budgets, grants, and regulatory compliance
- Strong knowledge of Massachusetts licensing regulations and EEC guidelines
- Proficiency with case management, reporting software, or center operations platforms
Center Director Jobs in Massachusetts: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a center director in Massachusetts?
The path depends on the type of center you want to lead. For early childhood programs, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care requires a director certificate, which involves completing approved coursework and demonstrating experience with child populations. For community health or behavioral health centers, employers typically require a master's degree in public health, social work, or administration along with clinical or program management experience. Leadership roles in other sectors prioritize relevant operational experience and sector-specific credentials over a single exam or license.
Which companies hire center directors in Massachusetts?
Employers hiring center directors in Massachusetts right now include Magical Beginnings, EWC Growth, and The Learning Experience UK, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Massachusetts's dense concentration of federally qualified health centers, nonprofit community organizations, and large childcare chains means hiring is ongoing across the state, particularly in Greater Boston and the Pioneer Valley.
Which Massachusetts cities have the most center director jobs?
Boston, Newton, and Attleboro have the most center director openings in Massachusetts. Boston dominates because of its concentration of hospital systems, nonprofit networks, and early education providers, while Worcester and Springfield anchor significant demand in central and western Massachusetts due to the large federally qualified health centers and community action agencies that operate there.
Are there remote center director jobs in Massachusetts?
Yes, but they're rare. Center director roles are typically on-site positions responsible for staff supervision, regulatory compliance, and day-to-day facility operations that require a physical presence. About 18% of center director openings tied to Massachusetts are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, and those tend to be in administrative or program oversight roles within larger organizations rather than direct facility management positions.
How can I get hired as a center director in Massachusetts with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving up through an assistant director or program coordinator role at a Massachusetts organization that promotes from within. Large early childhood networks like Bright Horizons and KinderCare, along with community health organizations affiliated with Massachusetts community action agencies, regularly hire assistant directors who then advance. Completing Massachusetts EEC director-level coursework early strengthens your candidacy, and gaining experience managing a single program or site before applying to full director roles is the most effective way to close the experience gap.
Where can I find and apply to center director jobs in Massachusetts?
You can find and apply to center director jobs in Massachusetts on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers actively hiring across the state. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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