DLP Technical Specialist (Singapore)

Thakral One; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Thakral One Pte. Ltd. is seeking a DLP Technical Specialist to elevate the APAC DLP environment. You will translate risk requirements into effective DLP controls and act as a bridge between business needs and technical implementation.

You will identify HVAs, define consistent criteria for classification, and deploy detector methodologies across email, endpoints, and other channels. Strong Purview DLP knowledge and stakeholder communication are essential for success.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in DLP, information protection or related field.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Purview DLP concepts including SITs and labels.
• Experience handling HVAs and data classification programmes.
• Ability to translate information risk requirements into practical technical controls.

Responsibilities

• Identify HVAs and inventory sensitive information across business units.
• Translate HVAs into technically implementable DLP detections and controls.
• Assess false positives/negatives and support testing and tuning.
• Maintain traceability from risk to DLP detection logic and response.
• Bridge business requirements with technical configuration and policy design.
• Analyze DLP alerts, policy performance, and opportunities for tuning.
• Coordinate stakeholder discussions and document governance actions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Translate risk requirements into tech

Tools

Microsoft Purview DLP

Job description

As a DLP Technical Specialist, you will enhance the effectiveness and maturity of the APAC Data Loss Prevention (DLP) control environment. Acting as the functional bridge between information‑risk requirements and technical implementation, you will translate complex protection requirements into practical, risk‑based and effective DLP controls.

What You'll Do and How You'll Succeed

High Value Asset Governance & Identification

• Engage business and control functions to identify and inventory potential HVAs such as audit reports, regulatory inspection materials, infrastructure diagrams, security documentation, source code, and other sensitive information.
• Analyse existing HVA submissions and rationalise overly broad or granular classifications.
• Develop consistent criteria for identifying and categorising HVAs suitable for DLP monitoring across APAC offices.
• Translate HVAs into technically implementable detection methodologies (keywords, dictionaries, sensitivity labels, classifiers).
• Assess false‑positive and false‑negative implications before implementation and support controlled testing and tuning.
• Establish traceability from identified information risk or HVA through to DLP detection logic, control response, and monitoring.

DLP Business & Technical Analysis

• Act as the bridge between business/risk requirements and technical implementation.
• Understand Microsoft Purview DLP concepts including policies, rules, conditions, exceptions, Sensitive Information Types, sensitivity labels, and policy tips.
• Analyse DLP alerts and rule performance to identify areas for tuning and enhancement.
• Understand information flows across email, endpoints, and other relevant transmission channels.
• Facilitate discussions between business stakeholders and technical engineers where requirements cannot be implemented directly.
• Challenge impractical or overly broad requirements that may cause business disruption.
• Assist in determining appropriate control responses such as monitoring, user warning, justification, blocking, or escalation.
• Document business and functional requirements for translation into technical configuration.

Overall DLP Governance & Project Management

• Support strategic DLP transformation initiatives, including enabling smooth implementation of Phase 3 Microsoft Purview DLP for in‑scope countries.
• Maintain clear project documentation and audit trails.
• Coordinate working groups and stakeholder meetings to drive follow‑up actions.
• Prepare project status reporting and management updates.

We'd Love to Hear From You If...

Experience

• You have 5–8 years of relevant experience in DLP, information protection, information security, data protection, technology risk, or a related discipline.
• You have strong functional experience with Microsoft Purview DLP, including policy design, requirements, testing, tuning, and effectiveness assessment.
• You have knowledge of DLP coverage across email, endpoint, web, and other channels.
• You have experience handling HVAs, supporting data‑classification programmes, and designing/tuning/testing DLP policies, SITs, classifiers, labels, or document‑fingerprinting approaches.

Technical Expertise

• You have strong analytical skills and the ability to translate information‑risk requirements into technical solutions.
• You have stakeholder management, presentation, and communication skills.

Ways of Working

• You collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, control functions, and technical engineers.
• You communicate clearly and document thoroughly.
• You proactively challenge impractical requirements and propose risk‑based alternatives.
• You balance governance compliance with business usability.

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Who We Are

Thakral One is a consulting and technology services company headquartered in Singapore, with a pan-Asian presence. We focus primarily around technology-driven consulting, adoption of value-added bespoke solutions, enabling enhanced decision support through data analytics, and embracing possibilities in the cloud. We are heavily inclined towards building capabilities collaboratively with clients and believe strongly in improving grounded and practical outcomes.

This approach is possible through our partnership with leading global technology providers and internal R&D teams. Our clients come from Financial Services, Banking, Telco, Government, Healthcare, and Consumer-oriented organisations.