Senior Director - Information Security - HealthTech

Description:

Role type: Security Leadership.

Work location: Bengaluru.

Our customer is a well-funded healthcare technology company dedicated to modernising physician practices and emergency departments through automation and advanced revenue cycle management.

They enable care teams to efficiently scale high-quality, compliant care while improving operational efficiency and patient outcomes.

What You Need:

- 15+ years of overall experience; 10+ years contributing to/leading cybersecurity and information security, driving strategy and execution at scale.

- Deep hands-on expertise across information security, application security, cloud security, infrastructure security, and cybersecurity, including modern security architectures and zero-trust principles.

- Strong experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM), privileged access controls, encryption, and secure authentication frameworks.

- Proven success in securing cloud and hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managing enterprise-grade security tooling (firewalls, IDS/IPS, SIEM, endpoint protection).

- In-depth understanding of healthcare security frameworks and standards HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST, GDPR, and secure data exchange protocols (HL7, FHIR), along with EHR system security.

- Experience leading incident response, breach management, disaster recovery, and business continuity programs in regulated environments.

- Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills with a track record of building high-performing security, compliance, and risk teams while enabling business growth.

What You Will Do:

- Lead and oversee the organisations end-to-end cybersecurity strategy and execution.

- Enhance and scale security and monitoring platforms to ensure proactive threat detection and response.

- Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Security teams to embed security practices across the product and technology lifecycle.

- Drive operational excellence in the identification, assessment, and mitigation of risk across systems and processes.

- Increase efficiency and effectiveness across security operations through enhanced platforms, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.