CISO (Chief Information & Security Officer)
Energy ExemplarPune, Maharashtra, India · Posted 4 months agoDescription
About Energy Exemplar
In an era where the world is rapidly advancing towards a cleaner future through decarbonization, Energy Exemplar’s mission lies in ‘Empowering Transformative Energy Decisions’. Founded in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia, our award-winning software portfolio encompassing the modeling and simulation platform PLEXOS®, Aurora, and Adapt2, is trusted by innovative organizations across the globe. Through our technology and people, we strive to enable stakeholders from across the entire energy value chain to revolutionize the energy ecosystem and to collaboratively plan and execute for a sustainable energy future with unprecedented clarity, speed, and innovation.
Our impact is global and is being recognized across the industry. Some of our recent accolades include:
- SaaS Company of the Year (2025) – Global Business Tech Awards.
- Environmental Impact Award (2025) – E+E Leaders Awards.
- IPPAI (Independent Power Producers Association of India) Power Awards (2025) - Winners
- Finalist: Platts Global Energy Awards (2024) – Grid Edge category
- Finalist: Reuters Global Energy Transition Awards (2024) – Technologies of Change
- Top 50 Marketing Team (2024) – Voted by the public at the ICON Awards.
How We Work
Energy Exemplar is growing fast around 30% year on year and, that growth is driven by how we work. We trust our team to deliver great results from wherever they work best, whether that’s at home, in the office, or on the move.
We’re a global team that values ownership, integrity, and innovation. You’ll be supported to balance work and life in a way that works for you, and empowered to take initiative, solve problems, and make an impact, regardless of your background, location, or role.
Our four core values, Customer Success, One Global Team, Integrity & Ownership, and Innovation Excellence aren’t just words. They show up in how we collaborate, how we solve, and how we grow together.
About the Position
CISO is a critical role for Energy Exemplar to protect and safeguard organization’s digital assets, employee and customer data in today’s evolving threat landscape. The CISO will handle cybersecurity threats, respond to incidents, regulatory requirements, and technological advancements while contributing to EE’s overall strategic objectives and resilience. Cyber is one of the top operational risks for Energy Exemplar as we have had a rapid growth in our head count, and expanded our SaaS and Product offering organically and through acquisitions. This role will ensure that Energy Exemplar will have the appropriate leadership with known skillsets, expertise, and experience to manage those risks across the organization
Key Stakeholder Relationships
This position works closely and collaboratively with all Energy Exemplar staff but in particular:
- Product Engineering, DevOps, Information Technology Team
- Legal, Finance, Sales and Global Leadership Team
Key Accountabilities and Duties
- Leadership and Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive information security strategy aligned with the company’s business objectives. Lead the Information Security team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the team’s success.
- Application Security: Oversee and enhance Energy Exemplar’s product security program, ensuring secure software development practices are integrated throughout the SDLC.
- Certifications: Successfully lead Audit process for SOC2, ISO 27001 and similar certifications for regulatory boards for industry sectors that EE’s products are sold.
- Incident Response / Management: Lead efforts in detecting, responding to, and recovering from security incidents, including having the technical aptitude to understand and own the incident (and all comms) and follow-up remediation and prioritization.
- Risk Assessment: Continuously evaluate cybersecurity risks and enforce measures / controls to mitigate them.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant security regulations and standards, and be able to present to regulators in case of an issue or any inquiries
- Security Awareness: Promote a culture of security awareness and best practices among employees.
- Manage Security Technologies: Oversee the adoption and management of effective security tools and practices.
- Customer Engagement: Any of your most seasoned customer’s tech and cyber leadership on why cyber is managed exceptionally
- Vendor / 3rd Party Risk Management: Assess and manage the security implications of third-party partnerships.
- Budgeting: Manage and allocate resources efficiently to support the company’s security initiatives.
- Executive Reporting: Communicate the status and needs of the security program to senior management and stakeholders, and be able to clearly articulate and define the trade-offs on specific cyber risks
Candidate Requirements
Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
- A breadth of hands-on and senior leadership experience in security, engineering, or DevSecOps management.
- In-depth understanding of security technologies such as intrusion detection, content filtering, threat patterns, security architecture, application architecture, and compliance criteria.
- Thorough understanding of SDLC and Application Security Policies, Design and Documentation.
- Experience with enforcing secure coding practices, threat modeling, identity and access management, and security incident response and recovery.
- Deep knowledge of cloud security, network security, data protection, and security in a software development environment.
- Thorough understanding of Risk Management principles (Risk Register and Cyber risks).
- Fundamental understanding of Incident Management and Security and Cloud Operations.
- Experience with ethical hacking, computer forensics, information assurance, and intrusion detection and prevention methodologies
- Experience securing and navigating cloud platforms, such as Azure and AWS platforms.
- Knowledge of security technologies (IDS, SIEM), cloud security monitoring technologies and the desire to remain technically hands-on, but also operate on a strategic level.
- Deep knowledge of relevant security and compliance frameworks, standards, and regulations (such as SOC2, NIST, ISO270xx).
- In-depth understanding of data protection laws and regulations, including GDPR and
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