Senior Director, Security Engineering at Cencora in Pune

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Our team members are at the heart of everything we do. At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today! Job Details Role Summary: The Sr. Director, Cybersecurity Engineering, Operations, Automation, and AI Enablement will lead an India-based strategic cybersecurity engineering and operations enablement organization responsible for accelerating cybersecurity modernization, improving automation, enabling AI-driven productivity, and providing 24x7 global engineering support. This leader will report to the U.S.-based Vice President, Cyber Architecture & Engineering and will serve as the senior cybersecurity leadership representative in India for this organization. The Sr. Director will have responsibility for building the team, establishing market leadership presence, creating delivery discipline, partnering across cyber domains, and ensuring India operates as a strategic global capability center rather than a task execution location. The role requires a leader who can operate across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, automation, AI enablement, talent development, and executive stakeholder management. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership Build and lead the India-based Cybersecurity Engineering, Operations, Automation, and AI Enablement organization. Translate global Cyber Architecture & Engineering strategy into India-based execution plans. Establish India as a strategic cybersecurity modernization and engineering hub. Partner with U.S.-based leadership to shape cyber engineering modernization priorities. Define the organization’s operating model, service catalog, delivery model, and success metrics. Represent the organization in India market leadership forums, technology leadership forums, and senior cybersecurity governance meetings. Cybersecurity Modernization Lead modernization efforts that improve how cybersecurity capabilities are engineered, supported, measured, and continuously improved. Drive adoption of product-oriented service ownership across security platforms and capabilities. Reduce manual operational friction through workflow redesign, automation, telemetry, and AI-enabled productivity. Improve operating discipline across change management, release management, service health, documentation, and production readiness. Automation Leadership Establish enterprise cybersecurity automation standards, patterns, and reusable integration approaches. Prioritize automation opportunities across cyber defense, cloud security, endpoint security, data & AI security, Cyber Defense, and application security. Ensure automation is safe, tested, auditable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise change control. Drive automation that reduces cycle time, operational toil, ticket volume, incident response friction, and manual reporting. AI Enablement Lead AI enablement for cybersecurity teams, including secure AI use cases, prompt libraries, knowledge workflows, reporting automation, summarization, analysis acceleration, and engineering productivity. Partner with Data & AI Security to ensure cybersecurity AI enablement follows approved security, privacy, legal, and risk guardrails. Identify and scale responsible AI use cases across cybersecurity architecture, engineering, operations, risk reporting, incident support, and control management. Ensure human review remains embedded in high-risk or decision-impacting AI workflows. 24x7 Support and Operational Readiness Establish India-based follow-the-sun support for critical cybersecurity platforms, automation workflows, telemetry pipelines, control health monitoring, and incident response engineering needs. Define escalation models, support tiers, handoff procedures, incident engagement rules, and s