VP Cyber Defense

As the VP of Security Operations at EXL, global Data and AI company, you'll be a pivotal leader, responsible for safeguarding our vast and complex data ecosystem and advanced AI solutions. You'll lead our 24x7 Cyber Defense Center (CDC), a mission-critical function protecting sensitive data and intellectual property across our global footprint.

This role demands a visionary leader with deep technical expertise, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and a proven track record of building and scaling world-class security operations in a dynamic, data-intensive environment.

• Strategic Operations Leadership: Lead, define, and execute the strategic vision for our global security operations, ensuring alignment with EXL's overall business objectives and risk appetite. Proactively identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities relevant to large-scale data and AI operations, developing innovative strategies to mitigate them

• Global Cyber Defense Center (CDC) Oversight: Provide comprehensive leadership and oversight for our 24x7 global Cyber Defense Center, managing a diverse team of in-house and outsourced security analysts and experts.

• Advanced Security Infrastructure Management: Provide leadership to effectively leverage and continuously optimize a state-of-the-art, heterogeneous security infrastructure, including advanced SIEM for sophisticated log correlation and anomaly detection, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), anti-phishing solutions, cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP), Behavior & Security Analytics and Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platforms.

• Incident Response & Threat Management: Lead and evolve our global incident response capabilities, ensuring rapid detection, containment, eradication, and recovery from advanced cyber threats targeting our data and AI infrastructure. Drive proactive threat hunting initiatives and integrate cutting-edge threat intelligence into our defensive strategies.

• Compliance, Governance & Reporting: Enhance cyber assurance frameworks and ensure robust regulatory reporting of cybersecurity posture for various global compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, ISO 27001, NIST). Ensure strict adherence to SLAs, establish key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics, and drive continuous process improvisation to achieve operational excellence.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as a key strategic partner, engaging cross-functionally with senior leaders in Technology, Engineering, Legal, HR, and Facilities to collaboratively resolve complex information security incidents and integrate security best practices across all business units.

• Security Architecture & Innovation: Collaborate closely with information security architecture and engineering teams as a critical stakeholder and consumer of new security capabilities. Provide input on security tool selection, design, and implementation, ensuring operational readiness and effectiveness.

• Audit & Assurance: Guarantee successful outcomes for all internal and client-facing audits related to information security, striving for zero major non-conformities (NCs) across all technology functions.

This is a truly a hands on role and requires a strong technical acumen with strong stakeholder management skills capable of planning and executing to meet core Information Security objectives

Skills Required
threat management , Siem, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence