Data Security Architect: Access Controls & Data Protection

Peregrine Advisors LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Peregrine Advisors LLC in Washington, DC, is seeking a Data Security Specialist who can design and operate robust data-protection controls across storage, processing, and sharing of information. The role emphasizes least privilege, strong authentication, encryption, and auditable data flows, aligning risk objectives with practical access policies.

You will partner with data owners, platform teams, and governance groups to implement NIST-based controls and zero-trust principles for data platforms

Qualifications

• Experience with data access governance, authorization models, and entitlement review.
• Working knowledge of encryption, key management, tokenization, masking, or similar data-protection controls.
• Experience with data classification, audit logging, monitoring, and security incident support.
• Knowledge of zero trust principles and how they inform granular data and service access.
• Ability to apply NIST SP 800-53 security-control concepts to data platforms, exchanges, and analytical workloads.

Responsibilities

• Develop data access patterns for data platforms and services.
• Define data-classification standards and protective handling patterns.
• Implement encryption, key-management, tokenization, or masking as appropriate.
• Establish entitlement-review and audit-trail processes.
• Ensure data protection controls for exchange, storage, analytics, and AI inputs/outputs when applicable.

Skills

Data access governance

Authorization models

Entitlement review

Encryption

Key management

Tokenization

Masking

Data classification

Audit logging

Zero trust

NIST SP 800-53

Job description

Peregrine Advisors LLC in Washington, DC, is seeking a Data Security Specialist who can design and operate robust data-protection controls across storage, processing, and sharing of information. The role emphasizes least privilege, strong authentication, encryption, and auditable data flows, aligning risk objectives with practical access policies.

You will partner with data owners, platform teams, and governance groups to implement NIST-based controls and zero-trust principles for data platforms