Cyber Defence Senior Director (Gurugram)

Locations: London | Gurgaon Who We Are Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive. What You'll Do You will lead BCG's global Cybersecurity Operations capability across the firm's full technology environment. Building on the strengths of the existing teams, you will bring security operations and incident response capabilities together into a more connected end-to-end service that improves visibility, reduces exposure, and strengthens BCG's ability to detect, contain, and recover from cyber threats. Your priorities will include completing the team build-out, maturing key operational processes, and establishing clear ways of working that support global coverage, effective collaboration, and consistent delivery. You will lead and develop a global organization of approximately 36 cybersecurity professionals while setting a clear direction for the continued evolution of the capability. - Set the strategy, priorities, and performance expectations for global Cybersecurity Operations. - Bring monitoring, detection, response, recovery, vulnerability management, and offensive security into a cohesive service. - Develop an integrated, end-to-end Security Operations Center capability with clear ownership, handoffs, and service standards. - Serve as senior incident commander during major cyber events, coordinating response, recovery, and executive escalation. - Oversee threat monitoring, detection engineering, threat hunting, triage, containment, recovery, and post-incident review. - Advance attack surface management, vulnerability reduction, offensive security, and adversarial testing. - Advance detection engineering through modern approaches including AI/ML-driven analytics, to improve signal quality and reduce time to detect. - Strengthen security tooling, automation, telemetry, and integration across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. - Lead cyber crisis preparedness through response playbooks, exercises, cross-functional coordination, and continuous improvement. What You'll Bring - At least 15 years of progressive cybersecurity leadership experience in complex, global organizations. - Deep expertise across SOC, incident response, detection, vulnerability, offensive, and cloud security. - Proven success building and maturing globally distributed cybersecurity operations capabilities. - Experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams in consulting or similarly complex multinational environments. - Calm, decisive leadership during major incidents and high-pressure executive situations. - Ability to set strategy, strengthen governance, and improve performance at enterprise scale. - CISSP, CISM, GIAC, or equivalent credentials are advantageous, not required. Who You'll Work With You will report to BCG's CISO and work closely with colleagues across IT, Legal, Privacy, and Communications. You will lead a globally distributed cybersecurity organization and partner across functions to strengthen operational readiness, coordinate major incident response, and improve BCG's resilience. The team works in a collaborative, high-trust environment where clear decision-making, shared accountability, and continuous improvement are essential. Additional info We have a solid preference for candidates living in a commutable distance to our London (Canary Wharf) or New Delhi (Gurgaon) offices. Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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