Role summary
The Cyber Security CoE Head leads the organisation’s Cyber Security Center of Excellence, providing strategic direction, governance, and thought leadership across security architecture, operations, risk, and compliance. This role is accountable for building and running the CoE as a central hub for security expertise, standards, and enablement, and for driving a solid security culture and measurable improvements in cyber resilience.
Key responsibilities
- Vision, strategy, and CoE operating model
- Define and maintain the cybersecurity CoE vision, charter, and multi?year roadmap, aligned with business strategy, risk appetite, and regulatory requirements.
- Design and operationalise the CoE operating model (services, engagement models, governance forums, KPIs) to support IT, OT, products, and business functions.
- Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC)
- Strengthen cyber GRC posture across IT/OT systems, data, and devices by driving risk assessments, control frameworks, and policies.
- Ensure ongoing compliance with relevant standards and regulations (e.g., ISO 27001,



NIST, IEC 62443, GDPR/DP laws, sectoral regulations) and maintain audit readiness.
- Security standards, architecture, and best practices
- Establish and maintain security policies, standards, patterns, and baselines for networks, infrastructure, applications, data, and identity.
- Provide architectural guidance and design reviews to ensure major initiatives (cloud, OT, digital products) align with CoE standards and Zero Trust/security?by?design principles.
- Centre of Excellence services and enablement
- Build the CoE as the “go?to” cybersecurity advisory and enablement hub, supporting business units, IT/OT teams, and product/R&D; with risk assessments, design reviews, and expert consulting.
- Develop reusable playbooks, templates, reference architectures, and training content to accelerate consistent adoption of security practices.
- Security operations and incident oversight
- Provide lea

📌 CoE Lead (Bengaluru)
🏢 3i Infotech
📍 Bengaluru