Senior DLP Engineer: Data Protection & Insider Risk

Wintrust Financial Corp; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental

Vision

401(k) with company match

FSA

Job summary

Wintrust Financial Corp. seeks a Senior Data Loss Prevention Engineer to implement and optimize enterprise data protection across Microsoft Purview, Proofpoint, and CrowdStrike.

You will partner with the Insider Risk team to protect sensitive information, improve detections, and support investigations within a highly regulated financial services context. You will design, test, and tune DLP controls, automate admin tasks, and integrate DLP with other security tools, ensuring robust data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent plus 3+ years of information security or IT.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with DLP, data protection, or insider risk.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview DLP, Proofpoint DLP, or CrowdStrike DLP/Insider Risk capabilities.
• Experience in a financial services, healthcare, or other highly regulated environment.
• Experience with data classification or data labeling preferred.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain DLP policies across Purview, Proofpoint, CrowdStrike, email, endpoint, cloud, and collaboration platforms.
• Tune DLP detections using sensitive information types, dictionaries, classifiers, regex, EDMs, IDMs, and contextual conditions.
• Perform policy testing, validation, deployment, and change management activities.
• Review and analyze DLP alerts to identify potential policy violations, data exposure events, and insider risk indicators.
• Support Insider Risk investigations with technical analysis related to data movement and exfiltration attempts.
• Develop scripts and automation to improve DLP administration, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Support integration between DLP tools and security platforms such as ServiceNow, SIEM, and case management systems.

Skills

Information security

Regulated environment

Security monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Purview DLP

Proofpoint DLP

CrowdStrike DLP/Insider Risk

Job description

Wintrust Financial Corp. seeks a Senior Data Loss Prevention Engineer to implement and optimize enterprise data protection across Microsoft Purview, Proofpoint, and CrowdStrike.

You will partner with the Insider Risk team to protect sensitive information, improve detections, and support investigations within a highly regulated financial services context. You will design, test, and tune DLP controls, automate admin tasks, and integrate DLP with other security tools, ensuring robust data