Senior DLP Engineering Lead - Data Protection

Synchrony; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Synchrony is seeking an AVP, Data Loss Prevention Engineer to drive an enterprise-wide DLP program and protect sensitive organizational data. The role collaborates with Information Security teams and business stakeholders to shape strategy, roadmap, and policy implementations that reduce data exfiltration risk.

Key responsibilities include designing DLP policies, measuring protection metrics, and staying ahead of threat trends while ensuring PCI-DSS and HIPAA compliance.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing Data Loss Prevention programs and rules.
• Ability to translate business data protection needs into technical controls.
• Strong collaboration with cyber security and business stakeholder teams.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for designing and building effective DLP policies and rules to protect and safeguard the organization's data.
• Support the Data Protection product owner defining the intent, roadmap, and strategy to ensure execution and delivery of the data loss prevention roadmap.
• Support development and management of Data Loss Prevention metrics.
• Stays current with emerging threat landscape and develops/enhances capabilities and strategies to safeguard the business from data exfiltration.
• Acting as a subject matter expert to assist with solving data loss prevention problems, especially as it relates to the Data Protection security service.
• Partners closely with key stakeholders to ensure alignment of sensitive data to protect for data loss prevention capabilities.
• Serves as a data loss prevention expert, trusted advisor, and central point of contact for IT and business stakeholders.
• Assists with the development of standards, best practices, and guidelines for the organization's policies, standards, and procedures.
• Ensures that as part of designing and building efficient cyber security capabilities these capabilities are achieving industry best practices, compliance and regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.
• Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned

Skills

DLP design

Policy development

Stakeholder management

Security engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Synchrony is seeking an AVP, Data Loss Prevention Engineer to drive an enterprise-wide DLP program and protect sensitive organizational data. The role collaborates with Information Security teams and business stakeholders to shape strategy, roadmap, and policy implementations that reduce data exfiltration risk.

Key responsibilities include designing DLP policies, measuring protection metrics, and staying ahead of threat trends while ensuring PCI-DSS and HIPAA compliance.