Sutherland is a global leader in driving business and digital transformation, and exceptional experiences along the entire journey of our client’s engagement with their customers.  With over 35 years of experience, we combine deep domain expertise and extensive knowledge in proven optimization with both proprietary and partnered tools and platforms to drive growth, efficiency, and productivity across organizations. 

Sutherland brings together our people, processes, products and platforms across cognitive artificial intelligence (AI), intelligent automation, advance analytics and digital services to create unique solutions for the industries that we service. The core values of remaining agile, outside-the-box thinking, uncompromising integrity and flawless execution are key pillars of the company. 

We serve marque brands across Healthcare, Insurance, Banking and Financial Services, Communications, Media and Entertainment, Technology, Travel and Logistics and Retail.  Sutherland has 212 unique and independent inventions associated with several patent grants in critical technologies in the US and UK.  Leveraging this IP and combining it with our platforms, domain expertise, engineering and digital expertise and collaborative partnerships, we are a team of 40,000 delivering tailored services and solutions driving tangible results at scale for our clients.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Practice Head – Cyber Security to build, scale, and lead a global security practice focused on cloud security, identity, governance, SOC transformation, and managed security offerings.

This is a practice ownership role. The role owns security strategy, service portfolio, GTM, alliances, solution engineering enablement, and practice growth.

Key Responsibilities

Practice Strategy & Ownership

• Define and own the enterprise and cloud security practice vision, roadmap, and operating model

• Establish security service portfolio across cloud, identity, data, network, and security operations

• Define practice KPIs including pipeline, revenue influence, attach rate, and partner contribution

• Lead Security Center of Excellence (CoE) for standards, frameworks, and reusable IP

Security Services & Offerings

• Own service offerings across:

  – Cloud Security & Posture Management (CSPM, Zero Trust)

  – Identity & Access Management (IAM / IDAM)

  – Security Operations & SOC modernization

  – Data security, governance, and compliance

• Define security maturity assessments and security transformation roadmaps

• Drive integration of security with CloudOps, SRE, AI, DR, and Platform Engineering

Solution Engineering & Presales Enablement

• Own security reference architectures, solution patterns, and design standards

• Enable presales, bid teams, and security architects with playbooks and solution artifacts

• Support large deals, strategic pursuits, and complex RFP/RFI responses

• Act as security solution sponsor for executive customer engagements

GTM, Alliances & Ecosystem

• Build and execute GTM strategy for security services and managed security offerings

• Own strategic alliances with security vendors and hyperscalers

• Drive joint offerings, co-sell motions, marketplace listings, and partner-led pipeline

• Support analyst interactions, security POVs, and market positioning

Talent & Capability Development

• Define security skill taxonomy, role definitions, and certification paths

• Build and nurture a future-ready security talent pipeline

• Mentor senior security architects and practice leads

• Promote security-by-design culture across engineering and platform teams

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong expertise in cloud and enterprise security architecture

• Deep experience across IAM, SIEM/SOAR, SOC, Zero Trust, and data security

• Familiarity with leading security platforms (Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Fortinet)

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud security services

• 12–18+ years of experience building and scaling security practices or CoEs

• Proven GTM, alliance, and presales leadership experience

Why Join Us

• Build and shape a next-generation security practice

• Work at the intersection of cloud, AI, and platform security

• High-visibility leadership role with strong influence on growth and strategy

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.