02 Sep
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Siemens Energy
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Gurugram
02 Sep
Siemens Energy
Gurugram
A Snapshot of Your Day
As the Head of Digital Workplace Security &
- Governance, you will lead the global strategy, governance, security, compliance, and operational excellence of Siemens Energy's digital workplace ecosystem. You will ensure that workplace technologies are secure by design, compliant by default, and enable a productive employee experience across a globally distributed workforce.
You will partner closely with Digital Workplace, Cybersecurity, IAM, Network, Privacy, Legal, HR, Architecture, and Operations teams to establish security guardrails, governance frameworks, and engineering standards that protect enterprise assets while enabling innovation. You will lead a globally distributed team responsible for endpoint security, compliance, workplace governance, vulnerability management, audit readiness, and digital workplace security transformation initiatives.
How You'll Make an Impact
Leadership &
- Strategy
- Define and execute the global Digital Workplace Security &
- Governance strategy aligned with Siemens Energy's cybersecurity and business objectives.
- Lead and develop a globally distributed team of security, governance, and endpoint engineering professionals.
- Establish transparent operating models, accountability frameworks, and governance practices across regions and product teams.
- Drive workplace-security modernization and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring stable operational delivery.
Security Governance &
- Compliance
- Translate enterprise security policies into implementable standards, controls, engineering requirements, and measurable outcomes.
- Define and maintain workplace-security baselines, golden configurations, governance policies, and compliance frameworks.
- Ensure alignment with regulatory, privacy, legal retention, and audit requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Manage risk acceptance processes, segregation of duties, control attestation, and exception governance.
Endpoint &
- Workplace Security
- Lead governance and security oversight for endpoint management, endpoint protection, detection capabilities, encryption, and device compliance.
- Drive risk-based vulnerability and patch management programs across workplace technologies.
- Ensure effective configuration management, endpoint hardening, and control automation.
- Establish measurable security posture indicators and compliance reporting mechanisms.
Microsoft 365 &
- Collaboration Governance
- Govern Microsoft 365 and workplace collaboration platforms, including:
- Tenant security
- External sharing and guest access
- Collaboration governance
- Plugins and connectors
- Information protection controls
- AI-enabled workplace features
- Ensure secure adoption of collaboration technologies while maintaining compliance and user productivity.
Incident Response &
- Operational Excellence
- Provide leadership during workplace-security incidents, cyber events, and compliance breaches.
- Partner with SOC and CSIRT functions to ensure timely containment, recovery, evidence preservation, and corrective actions.
- Ensure findings from incidents, audits, and assessments are translated into sustainable operational improvements.
- Maintain accountability for control effectiveness and production implementation of remediation activities.
Service Governance &
- Vendor Management
- Partner with service owners to integrate security controls into workplace services throughout their lifecycle.
- Oversee workplace-security technology providers, managed service partners, and vendor performance.
- Drive tool rationalization, knowledge transfer, service quality improvement, and cost optimization.
- Promote observability, Digital Employee Experience (DEX), and ITSM/CMDB integration to balance security, reliability, and usability.
What You Bring
Essential Experience &
- Capabilities
- Typically 10+ years of experience across Digital Workplace, Endpoint Engineering, Cybersecurity, Security Architecture, Governance, or related infrastructure domains.
- Significant experience leading global or distributed teams in enterprise environments.
- Proven success leading workplace-security, endpoint-compliance, cyber-governance, or security-engineering organizations through transformation and operational maturity.
- Strong expertise in:
- Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)
- Endpoint Protection &
- Detection
- Operating System and Application Lifecycle Management
- Encryption and Trust Services
- Data Privacy &
- Legal Retention Requirements
- Experience governing collaboration and productivity platforms, including Microsoft 365 security and compliance controls.
- Demonstrated success improving vulnerability management, patch compliance, audit readiness, and security-control effectiveness.
- Strong understanding of:
- Zero Trust principles
- Identity &
- Access Management
- Secure Access
- Data Protection
- Privacy Regulations
- Enterprise Risk Governance
- Segregation of Duties
- Experience supporting security incidents and cyber-response activities in partnership with SOC/CSIRT teams.
- Strong knowledge of:
- IT Service Management (ITSM)
- CMDB
- Service Ownership
- Observability
- Digital Employee Experience (DEX)
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders across business and technology organizations without direct authority.
- Fluent English with experience leading global teams across different cultures, geographies, and time zones.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within industrial,
energy, manufacturing, critical infrastructure, or other highly regulated global enterprises.
- Leadership experience in large-scale Digital Workplace, Microsoft 365, Endpoint Management, Data Privacy, or Secure Workplace transformation programs.
- Knowledge of employee-data privacy regulations, works-council engagement, cross-border service delivery, and regional compliance requirements.
- Relevant certifications such as:
- CISSP
- CISM
- CCSP
- Vendor-specific cloud, endpoint, security, or service-management certifications
- Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Leadership Expectations
Global One-Team Leadership
Create alignment, trust, and consistent standards across global product teams, regional support organizations, employees, and external partners while building a strong leadership and technical talent pipeline.
Secure Enablement Mindset
Enable safe adoption of technology through secure-by-design guardrails, standard patterns, and scalable controls rather than excessive approvals or restrictive policies.
Operational Accountability
Lead confidently during incidents, make risk and service trade-offs transparent, and ensure corrective actions are fully implemented and validated in production environments.
Risk-Based Decision Making
Focus on material risks, prioritize based on exploitability and business impact, and communicate residual risks clearly to accountable business owners.
Employee-Centric Security
Balance security requirements with employee experience by reducing unnecessary friction while maintaining mandatory controls and transparency of risk.
Evidence-Based Transparency
Establish reliable security posture metrics, governance dashboards, and control reporting focused on outcomes rather than activity volume.
Inclusive Talent Development
Develop future leaders, strengthen succession planning, encourage mobility across workplace and cybersecurity disciplines, and reduce dependency on individual experts or suppliers.
Enterprise Collaboration
Build strong and lasting partnerships across Cybersecurity, Digital Workplace, IAM, Network, Privacy, HR, Legal, Operations, and vendor organizations to proactively address risks and governance challenges.
Key Success Measures
- Improved digital workplace security posture and compliance maturity.
- Increased endpoint compliance and vulnerability remediation effectiveness.
- Reduction in audit findings and governance exceptions.
- Improved control automation and policy enforcement.
- Strong Microsoft 365 and collaboration platform governance.
- Enhanced employee experience without compromising security.
- Measurable reduction in operational and security risk exposure.
- Effective global team engagement, capability development, and succession readiness.
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