Senior Consultant, Advisory Services

What is special about Lighthouse?

Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals.   We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success.  We grow together and are stronger together. 

What’s unique about this role?

The Senior Consultant, M365 Information Protection, will focus on the design, customization, and implementation of M365 Purview Information Protection solutions.  This role will support and lead engagements with a wide range of organizations while also working as a member of Lighthouse’s Information Governance Consulting team providing world-class solutions around the Microsoft technology stack.  

The Senior Consultant, M365 Information Protection will lead client engagements and work in collaboration with Project Manager(s), Associate Director(s), Consultants, and Analysts to ensure project requirements are met.

Th major focus of this position is delivering consulting services related to the M365 Purview platform with a primary focus on Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), Defender for Cloud Apps, Data Loss Protection (DLP), Insider Risk Management (IRM), and Copilot for Security.  Experience and expertise in the broader information security space is essential, as well as basic understanding of non-Microsoft industry solutions.

What will this person do?

• Provide consulting services for information protection capabilities in the M365 Purview platform, with an emphasis on assessment, high-level design, and implementation of Microsoft Purview Information Protection, Purview Data Loss Prevention, Purview Insider Risk Management, Defender for Cloud Apps, Data Loss Protection (DLP), Insider Risk Management (IRM) and Copilot for Security.
• Collaborate with or provide general supervision to other information governance associates or 3rd party contractors to execute project tasks.
• Provide support for pre-sales activities relating to Microsoft Purview Information Protection solutions, including conducting client and prospect presentations, demonstrations, solution design, etc. 
• Guide organizations on improving their information protection and security posture through fully leveraging their investments in the Microsoft Purview suite of solutions.  
• Lead and support internal education and development activities
• Lead and contribute to strategic discussions regarding building and expanding the information protection practice as well as the broader information governance practice
• Serve as a lead subject matter expert in M365 Purview Information Protection solutions
• Create detailed documentation, including architecture diagrams, implementation plans, and configuration guides.
• Provide regular status updates and reports to project stakeholders, outlining progress, challenges, and recommendations.

Bring your passion and together we will shine.  It would also be great if you have the following:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience designing and implementing security and/or compliance solutions for M365 including:  Microsoft 365 Defender, Azure Sentinel, Microsoft Information Protection, Microsoft Cloud Application Security, sensitivity labels, data classification
• Critical skills for this role include some or all of the following: information security program development and/or management, information governance, data loss prevention, data classification and labeling,  retention/deletion, legal hold processes, data privacy, identity and access management, identity governance, app protection, cloud architecture
• Strong leadership and mentoring/coaching skills, with a desire to mentor and coach junior team members
• Working with enterprise clients to implement programs for some or all of
  • Information protection programs
  • Insider risk management
  • Data loss prevention
• Experience working in an information protection and/or security environment in house or at a consulting organization 
• Knowledge of PowerShell desirable (not required)
• Ability