DSPM Engagement Lead: Enterprise Data Security

Synechron; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron seeks an experienced DSPM Engagement Manager / Technical Program Manager to lead enterprise-wide data security posture and adaptive data security initiatives. You will manage stakeholder engagement, governance, vendor coordination, and delivery across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, databases, and data platforms.

You will own the DSPM roadmap, define requirements, and drive delivery with cross-functional teams, ensuring security controls and compliance across systems.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in cybersecurity, data security, cloud security, or technical program management.
• 5+ years leading enterprise cybersecurity, DSPM, DLP, data-governance, or data-access programs.
• Proven experience managing cross-functional teams and complex technology implementations.
• Strong knowledge of data classification, data governance, IAM, cloud security, encryption, DLP, and security monitoring.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders in regulated or complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication, presentation, planning, risk-management, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary contact for cybersecurity, technology, privacy, compliance, risk, and business stakeholders.
• Lead discovery workshops, steering committees, governance forums, executive briefings, and program communications.
• Define program scope, objectives, success criteria, delivery plans, and communication strategies.
• Translate business, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements into actionable DSPM solutions.
• Own the DSPM roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and delivery outcomes.
• Define and manage requirements for data discovery, classification, ownership, lineage, access analysis, and risk scoring.
• Coordinate onboarding of data sources across cloud platforms, databases, data lakes, file systems, SaaS applications, and collaboration platforms.
• Manage integrations with DLP, SIEM, SOAR, IAM, PAM, CMDB, encryption, and cloud-security platforms.
• Lead technical design, proof of concept, testing, deployment, operational readiness, and transition to support.
• Implement adaptive data-security controls, including dynamic access restrictions, masking, encryption, tokenization, just-in-time access, and enhanced monitoring.
• Track decisions, actions, assumptions, dependencies, remediation activities, and escalations.
• Ensure completion of architecture documents, operating procedures, test plans, training materials, and support models.
• Manage vendors, delivery partners, budgets, schedules, service-level commitments, adoption, and change management.
• Provide executive reporting and drive continuous improvement of the DSPM program.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Planning

Risk management

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Program management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline

Job description

Synechron seeks an experienced DSPM Engagement Manager / Technical Program Manager to lead enterprise-wide data security posture and adaptive data security initiatives. You will manage stakeholder engagement, governance, vendor coordination, and delivery across cloud, on-premises, SaaS, databases, and data platforms.

You will own the DSPM roadmap, define requirements, and drive delivery with cross-functional teams, ensuring security controls and compliance across systems.