Head Of Digital Workplace Security & Governance

Siemens Energy; Lisboa; Remote; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Lisbon seeks a Head of Digital Workplace Security & Governance to define and drive the global strategy, governance, and security for the digital workplace. You will partner with Digital Workplace, Cybersecurity, IAM, and Legal to enforce secure-by-default configurations and compliant-by-default practices.

You will lead a distributed team responsible for endpoint security, vulnerability management, audit readiness, and ongoing security transformation, ensuring safe collaboration

Qualifications

• Proven experience in security governance for enterprise digital workplace environments.
• Strong leadership and global team management experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the global Digital Workplace Security & Governance strategy.
• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of security, governance, and endpoint engineering professionals.
• Establish clear operating models, accountability frameworks, and governance practices across regions and product teams.
• Drive workplace-security modernization and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring stable operational delivery.
• Partner with SOC and CSIRT functions to ensure timely containment, recovery, evidence preservation, and corrective actions.

Job description

As the Head of Digital Workplace Security & Governance , you will lead the global strategy, governance, security, compliance, and operational excellence of Siemens Energy's digital workplace ecosystem. You will ensure that workplace technologies are secure by design, compliant by default, and enable a productive employee experience across a globally distributed workforce.

You will partner closely with Digital Workplace, Cybersecurity, IAM, Network, Privacy, Legal, HR, Architecture, and Operations teams to establish security guardrails, governance frameworks, and engineering standards that protect enterprise assets while enabling innovation. You will lead a globally distributed team responsible for endpoint security, compliance, workplace governance, vulnerability management, audit readiness, and digital workplace security transformation initiatives.

How You'll Make an Impact Leadership & Strategy

• Define and execute the global Digital Workplace Security & Governance strategy aligned with Siemens Energy's cybersecurity and business objectives.
• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of security, governance, and endpoint engineering professionals.
• Establish clear operating models, accountability frameworks, and governance practices across regions and product teams.
• Drive workplace-security modernization and continuous improvement initiatives while ensuring stable operational delivery.

Security Governance & Compliance

• Translate enterprise security policies into implementable standards, controls, engineering requirements, and measurable outcomes.
• Define and maintain workplace-security baselines, golden configurations, governance policies, and compliance frameworks.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory, privacy, legal retention, and audit requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
• Manage risk acceptance processes, segregation of duties, control attestation, and exception governance.
• Lead governance and security oversight for endpoint management, endpoint protection, detection capabilities, encryption, and device compliance.
• Drive risk-based vulnerability and patch management programs across workplace technologies.
• Ensure effective configuration management, endpoint hardening, and control automation.
• Establish measurable security posture indicators and compliance reporting mechanisms.
• Govern Microsoft 365 and workplace collaboration platforms, including:
  • Tenant security
  • External sharing and guest access
  • Collaboration governance
  • Plugins and connectors
  • Information protection controls
  • AI-enabled workplace features
• Ensure secure adoption of collaboration technologies while maintaining compliance and user productivity.

Incident Response & Operational Excellence

• Provide leadership during workplace-security incidents, cyber events, and compliance breaches.
• Partner with SOC and CSIRT functions to ensure timely containment, recovery, evidence preservation, and corrective actions.
• Ensure findings from incidents, audits, and assessments are translated into sustainable operational improvements.
• Maintain accountability for control effectiveness and production implementation of remediation activities.
• Partner with service owners to integrate security controls into workplace services throughout their lifecycle.
• Oversee workplace-security technology providers, managed service partners, and vendor performance.
• Drive tool rationalization, knowledge

Head Of Digital Workplace Security & Governance • Lisbon, Portuguese Republic, PT