Global Cybersecurity Director - Security Operations
15 Days Old
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What You'll Do
Security Continuous Monitoring Oversight
Establish and lead BCG’s first enterprise-wide Cybersecurity Continuous Monitoring (CSCM) program, ensuring continuous visibility into system, endpoint, network, and cloud activity.
Define and implement governance models, including ownership of monitoring metrics (e.g., MTTD, MTTR, false positive rate, coverage completeness).
Stand up monitoring processes and integrate telemetry sources across SIEM, EDR, identity, network, and cloud platforms.
Ensure monitoring outputs are actionable, enriching detection and response activities and informing risk and compliance stakeholders.
Technical Architecture & Integration
Design and implement a continuous monitoring reference architecture, leveraging SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, and threat intelligence.
Establish enterprise logging standards covering log coverage, retention, encryption, access, and integrity requirements.
Drive automation of monitoring workflows and correlation logic to reduce dwell time and improve detection accuracy.
Collaborate with threat intelligence teams to ensure real-time enrichment of event data and alignment with MITRE ATT&CK adversary tactics.
Program & Capability Development
Build the CCM capability from the ground up, defining the operating model, reporting cadence, and engagement with SOC, risk, and compliance.
Develop and track KPIs, ensuring CCM effectiveness is measurable and communicated to senior stakeholders.
Prioritize creation of top 5–10 operational dashboards and reports that provide critical enterprise visibility.
Mature the function from initial operational capability (M1) toward advanced maturity, embedding continuous improvement cycles.
Strategic Leadership
Serve as the founding leader for the CCM function, creating the strategy, roadmap, and tactical build plan.
Partner with enterprise stakeholders across IT, Risk, and Security to align monitoring with business risk tolerance and resilience objectives.
Influence senior leaders by translating technical telemetry insights into business-relevant intelligence.
Build, inspire, and retain a high-performing team of analysts and engineers over time, leveraging both full-time staff and contractors.
Advise senior leadership (via SecOPS) on monitoring-driven insights, risks, and mitigation recommendations.
What You'll Bring
Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent). Master’s preferred.
10+ years in cybersecurity operations, with at least 5 years in security monitoring, SOC leadership, or equivalent detection & response functions.
Proven track record of building or maturing monitoring capabilities (SIEM, SOAR, telemetry pipelines, UEBA, threat intel integration).
Knowledge of log ingestion, normalization, correlation, and enrichment processes.
Familiarity with leading monitoring technologies: Splunk, DataDog, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike Falcon, Azure/AWS/GCP telemetry, threat intelligence platforms.
Expertise in metrics-driven monitoring: defining, tracking, and reporting MTTD, MTTR, false positive rates, and coverage completeness.
Familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF, MITRE ATT&CK, and ISO 27001, with experience applying these to monitoring.
Experience in threat hunting, anomaly detection, and behavioral analytics.
Strong leadership skills: able to recruit, mentor, and develop a high-performing team in a newly established function.
Executive presence: able to present complex monitoring data and risks to senior leadership in clear, concise business terms.
Additional info 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. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.
Seniority level Director
Employment type Full-time
Job function Other, Information Technology, and Management
Industries Business Consulting and Services
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- Location:
- London
- Salary:
- £200,000 +
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT & Technology
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