Senior DSPM & Data Security Engineer (Hybrid)

Synechron; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible and hybrid working

Job summary

Synechron in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Data Security Engineer to design, build, and operate DSPM capabilities across cloud, on‑prem, SaaS and hybrid environments.

You will discover and classify sensitive data, assess risks, automate remediation, and integrate DSPM findings with IAM, data catalogs, SIEM/SOAR, and reporting systems. 7+ years in data security and strong Python automation are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in data security, cybersecurity, cloud security, security engineering, or a related field.
• Strong knowledge of DSPM, data discovery, classification, governance, and data protection.
• Hands-on experience with structured and unstructured data environments and at least one public cloud platform.
• Strong Python skills, including REST APIs, authentication, testing, error handling, and automation.
• Experience with enterprise integrations, event-driven architectures, queues, or streaming technologies.
• Knowledge of IAM, RBAC/ABAC, least privilege, secrets management, encryption, logging, and network security.
• Experience with Linux, Git, CI/CD, containers, automated testing, and infrastructure automation.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems.
• Experience working with privacy, regulatory, risk, and data-handling requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate DSPM solutions across structured and unstructured data environments.
• Discover, inventory, classify, and assess sensitive data across databases, data lakes, warehouses, object stores, SaaS, and cloud services.
• Develop Python automation for data-source onboarding, scanning, metadata enrichment, risk scoring, evidence capture, and remediation workflows.
• Integrate DSPM platforms with IAM, data catalogs, CMDB, SIEM/SOAR, ticketing, incident response, and reporting systems.
• Correlate data sensitivity with ownership, permissions, identity, location, lineage, configuration, exposure, and activity.
• Configure classification policies, risk analytics, dashboards, alerts, and workflows.
• Improve classification accuracy, coverage, data freshness, connector health, and remediation performance.
• Support controls including least privilege, Zero Trust, encryption, masking, tokenisation, retention, and secure deletion.
• Troubleshoot integrations and distributed systems across APIs, networks, identities, cloud services, and data platforms.
• Produce technical designs, operational documentation, control evidence, metrics, and risk communications.

Skills

Python

REST APIs

Security engineering

Data security

Cloud security

Linux

Git

CI/CD

Containers

Automation

Distributed systems

Tools

Microsoft Purview

BigID

Varonis

Cyera

Securiti

Job description

Synechron in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Data Security Engineer to design, build, and operate DSPM capabilities across cloud, on‑prem, SaaS and hybrid environments.

You will discover and classify sensitive data, assess risks, automate remediation, and integrate DSPM findings with IAM, data catalogs, SIEM/SOAR, and reporting systems. 7+ years in data security and strong Python automation are required.