Sr. Manager AI Product Management

Information Governance Senior Manager / Director 

The Director / Senior Manager / Team Lead – Identity, Threat & SIEM is a senior, hands-on leadership role within the Security Advisory practice. This role is responsible for building and leading a team of Security Professionals focused on Microsoft Entra, the Microsoft Defender Suite, and Microsoft Sentinel, while also maintaining direct individual contributor responsibilities across advisory, implementation, and client delivery engagements. The position blends people leadership, technical depth, and client-facing delivery, acting as both a practice leader and senior security advisor. The role supports presales strategy, workshop delivery, solution implementation, and ongoing security advisory, ensuring both delivery quality and consistent technical direction across engagements. 

This role also carries billable utilization expectations, account management of assigned customers which contributes to practice growth, and serves as a senior escalation point for complex identity, threat protection, and SIEM engagements. The geographic scope is potentially global, with a primary focus on North American clients. 

Responsibilities 

Advisory 

• Lead and coach a team delivering Entra, Defender, and Sentinel services. 

• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance across engagements. 

• Develop team capability and support career progression. 

• Escalation point for complex client issues, architecture decisions, and delivery challenges. 

• Help build practice standards, delivery frameworks, and repeatable offerings. 

• Senior SME for Microsoft Entra ID (Conditional Access, Identity Protection, PIM, lifecycle governance, Zero Trust). 

• Lead/review identity architectures and remediation roadmaps. 

• Advise on identity risk, access control, and regulatory alignment. 

• Support complex hybrid and cloud-only identity deployments. 

• Lead and support Microsoft Defender Suite implementations (MDE, MDI, MDCA etc) 

• Guide detection strategy, alert tuning, and IR alignment to operating models. 

• Provide advanced threat analysis, incident response support, and threat hunting as needed. 

• Ensure consistent, best-practice use of Defender across engagements. 

• Lead design, deployment, and optimization of Microsoft Sentinel. 

• Review analytics rules, automation playbooks, data connectors, and SOC workflows. 

• Advise on SIEM maturity, SOC evolution, and Entra/Defender integrat