Data Security & Delivery Strategist/Lead - Senior Manager - Associate Director

London; California; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte seeks a Data Security Delivery Lead to design and deploy data security solutions for clients, aligning data protection with business outcomes. You will build relationships with CIOs, CISOs, and other stakeholders while shaping security programs and operating models.

The role blends technical depth with leadership, covering data discovery, encryption, governance, and DLP across cloud environments. You’ll work in fast-paced engagements, delivering pragmatic architectures and winning

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver data security strategies and solutions for clients.
• Define data security requirements, architecture, and implementation plans.
• Engage with CIOs, CISOs, and other senior stakeholders to shape security programs.
• Lead data security operating model design, governance, and program delivery.
• Produce client-facing materials, proposals, and executive presentations.

Skills

Client relationships

Data security

Data discovery

Data classification

DLP

Encryption

Data governance

Cloud security

Stakeholder communication

Proposal development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Microsoft 365

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

ForcePoint DLP

HashiCorp Vault

AWS KMS

Azure Key Vault

Varonis

BigID

Job description

Cyber security is critical to every organisation. We are shaping strategies and transforming the management of cyber risk, and we need you to join us. You’ll build strong relationships as one of the areas of our cyber practice with over 450 extremely talented individuals in the UK alone, as part of a Technology and Transformation practice of 7500 people. Cyber security is a business problem, not just a technical problem, and we need people with a diverse array of backgrounds and skills sets to help our clients solve it. Join us and you will help our clients solve the latest cyber security challenges, in a business with very significant growth ambitions enjoying the kind of professional development that will set your potential free.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?It’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

We are a teamthat is passionate about cyber security andtechnology, comfortable with operating in fast-paced environmentswhere we define and lead thedevelopment of cyber strategies, cyber programmes and managing cyber risk. We are looking for likeminded individuals who thrive on the challenge of solving the toughest cyber security challenges faced by organisations today.Typically,this will be people with a blend of technical and soft skills, enablingthem to both analyse cyber securitychallengeswhile effectively communicatingwitha range of stakeholders-from end users and technical specialists through to senior IT professionals andmembers of the board.

As a Data Security Delivery Lead, you will drive the design, implementation, and ongoing development and deployment of data security solutions for our clients. You will use your experience in data security architecture to help shape strategies, programmes of work, aligning data protection approaches with client business needs and outcomes. In this role, you will also support clients at a strategic level by helping to define and evolve their Operating Model, refine processes, and shape technical design, tooling, and implementation options for data security initiatives.

We empower you to research and experiment with different approaches and tooling to ensure we remain on the cutting edge of Data Security. You will influence our macro approach and set the direction for how we meet our clients’ demands. Our projects vary greatly, and your responsibility will differ based on the focus of a specific client engagement or proposal, but your role is likely to include:

• Developing and maintaining client relationships and networks by engaging with key stakeholders such as CIOs, CISOs, DPOs, CTOs, Architecture Leads, Security Operations, Digital Product Leads, and Heads of Data Security. This includes building new connections and strengthening existing ones, both during and outside of client engagements.
• Defining data security functional and non-functional solution requirements, and technical specifications e.g., data discovery, data access governance, data classification, data loss prevention, encryption, data masking, monitoring, and compliance requirements. As part of this, defining next gen use cases covering data security posture management and AI use cases.
• Performing data security specific domain level baseline exercises (e.g. gap assessments / maturity assessments) to surface gaps and issues.
• Defining target states at a data security domain level to set out pragmatic and achievable set of capabilities.
• Producing materials for clients, e.g. eminence activities, go to market plans, client proposals, client deliverables, executive presentations.
• Working with alliance partnerships to create a pipeline of opportunities and convert and deliver against that pipeline.
• Supporting clients to implement data security operating models (covering people, process and technology), leveraging your industry experience to develop pragmatic and workable solutions.
• Delivering data security solution delivery projects in complex and time-pressured circumstances, adhering to standard project management approaches.
• Seeking to improve and develop market strategy based upon observed cyber security and data protection trends.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Whilst a bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or Engineering is desirable, we are more interested in your real-world professional experience and your ability to turn this into impactful client outcomes.

Key skills – not every candidate needs all of these, but should be familiar and/or have experience with a majority of these:

• Building strong client relationships, particularly within engagement delivery, and the ability to grow and build client relationships outside of delivery. Ability to understand client problems and issues and develop a proposal for how we can support.
• Long standing data security experience and network of relationships across clients.
• Solid capability to produce client friendly materials, presenting complex ideas simply and professionally across a range of artefacts from proposals to solution documentation.
• Experience with waterfall and agile type methodologies, often working within client specified frameworks.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills to manage a variety of client stakeholders from CISO to Developer.
• Commercial capability to develop proposals, produce cost estimates, propose compelling commercial offers and present well to clients.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including concisely communicating status and creating customer reports and presentations.
• Knowledge of operating model and roadmap approaches and experience defining and delivering this type of work.
• Broad data security experience across data discovery, data classification, data loss prevention (DLP), data security posture management, encryption, data masking, data governance, and data privacy, with demonstrable ability to build data security strategies which integrate into client enterprise architectures and beyond.
• Experience in designing strategies, developing architecture, and implementing data security solutions using (not all expected, rather a sub-sect and areas of strength within this list):
• DLP across email, O365, cloud, web, and endpoint channels (e.g., using Microsoft, Broadcom, ForcePoint[AJ1] )
• Data classification and data discovery
• Digital Rights Management (e.g., using Microsoft)
• Data security across Azure, AWS, Oracle, and Google Cloud, utilising third-party DLP tools (such as Microsoft, Broadcom, ForcePoint) and/or native cloud capabilities.
• Encryption technologies such as KeyFactor, HashiCorp Vault, AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and Azure Key Vault.
• Data Security Posture Management and Data Governance tools such as Microsoft, Varonis and BigID for data discovery, classification, access monitoring, and threat detection across structured and unstructured environments.
• Experience working in