Deloitte Cyber - Data Protection Consultant

Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.

Recruiting for the role ends on 3/3/2026

The Team

Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation offering develops and transforms cyber programs in line with a client's strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite. It keeps the enterprise a step ahead of the evolving threat landscape and gives stakeholders confidence in the organization's cyber posture. Includes design of the cyber organization, governance, and risk assessments.

Work You’ll Do

• Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to our clients, assisting them to evaluate strategic and practical data protection and encryption requirements based on new and emerging data risks, advising on best practices for data encryption, decryption, and secure key management
• Assist clients in designing, implementing and operating technology and process solutions to reduce data risks

• Assist clients in developing and leading the implementation of encryption strategies to protect sensitive data across various environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures

• Assist clients to manage the deployment and lifecycle of PKI systems, ensuring robust and scalable certificate management processes. Monitor and maintain the health of certificate infrastructures to prevent downtime and security breaches.

• Assist clients with developing requirements, evaluating vendor solutions, architecting, implementing and operating data protection solutions
• Aid in the delivery of client engagements, ensuring success by:
• Driving day-to-day execution, communicating updates to clients and firm leadership
• Providing leadership and support to delivery teams to ensure completion and accuracy of high-quality work products
• Tracking and reporting on project timelines to ensure on time and on budget delivery
• Contribute to Deloitte’s thought leadership in client organizations and external marketplace
• Foster an environment of inclusion and well-being
• Stay up to date on emerging encryption technologies (e.g., post-quantum cryptography, confidential computing, secure enclaves, envelop encryption) and industry trends around cyber risk, data protection and cryptography practices.
• Proactively evaluate and recommend new tools and solutions to enhance data security

Qualifications

Required:

• 2+ years of professional experience within data protection and information security, which may include Data Discovery, Data Classification and Rights Management, Data Access Governance, Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Access Security Broker, Encryption, Certificate Lifecycle Management, Cloud Security, SaaS Security
• 1+ years of professional experience managing and implementing various encryption technologies (e.g., database encryption, file encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), certificate lifecycle management (CLM), transport layer security(TLS)) and strong understanding of Cloud encryption concepts such as client-side encryption, bring your own key (BYOK), server-side encryption.
• 1+ years of professional experience developing data protection strategies, roadmaps and frameworks; experience may include designing, implementing and operating data protections services
• 1+ years of total hands-on technical experience with one or more data protection technologies
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
• Ability to travel 25-50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited sponsorship maybe available

Preferred:

• Quantum readiness and AI protection experience a strong plus
• Significant industry work experience preferred
• Experience with public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) security and modern data platforms (e.g., Snow