Data Protection Architect

Enterprise Data Protection team is responsible for the structured and unstructured data protection across the data landscape in the organization. The job role would involve managing and maintaining information/data protection services within the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as an interface with multiple sub-groups within a business unit or functional area for the purpose of business technology alignment, solution discovery, solutions delivery, project portfolio management, and relationship management.

• Architect and design complex business process/ application solutions to address cross functional needs and convert design to functional and technical specifications.

• Identifies and recommend industry BKM's for integrated solution design and standards.

• Provides and/or oversees business application functional support services to meet customer (internal Business) performance, availability, service level agreements and customer satisfaction targets.

• Oversees monitoring of specific IT systems or set of systems and tuning of such systems for availability and performance.

• Drives team during outages and provide resolution of outages, completion of root cause analysis, coordinating with infrastructure and technical teams, service providers and vendors.

• Drives implementation of corrective and preventative actions.  Evaluates/recommends/plans life cycle for patches, point releases, and major upgrades.

• Delivers project and support services within area of responsibility within allocated budget.

• Develops understanding cost model and cost drivers for service(s) and recommend service area budgets and cost optimization activities. May be responsible for timely renewal of maintenance and subscription contracts.

• Ensures adherence to GIS project management, service management, change management, RCA and other relevant compliance, processes, standards, governance and controls.  

• May need to take part in the execution of sox controls & ISO audits and to support internal and external audits. 

• Plan and manage medium to large scale cross functional projects to ensure effective and efficient execution in line with guardrails of scope, timeline, budget and quality.

• Oversees contingent workers performing operations/ project tasks/ assignments and ensure work product quality.  

Requirements – Skills, Experience and Qualification

• 10 -14 years of work experience in IT Industry

• Minimum 5 – 8 years of experience in Information Protection/ Security, Data/ Cloud Security area

• Minimum 3 – 5 years of experience in Cloud Security Technologies

• Familiar with information security industry standards, trends and emerging technologies

• Design and implementation experience on Proxy, DLP, DRM, IRM solutions

• Design and implementation experience on UEBA/SIEM & CASB solutions

• Design and implementation experience on Database security solutions

• Experience in Insider Threat hunting, IoCs, MITRE Framework etc.

• Knowledge on Cloud solutions - O365, Azure & AWS

• Knowledge in scripting and automation using PowerShell/Perl/Python

• Ability to create As-Is / To-Be Process Flows. Identify changes to workflow / impact to workforce.

• Document 'Solution Design Document', including process flows, business & technical requirements, and exception handling rules

Functional Knowledge:

Demonstrates in-depth and/or breadth of expertise in own discipline and broad knowledge of other disciplines within the function

Business Expertise:

Interprets internal/external business challenges and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services.

Leadership:

May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.

Problem Solving:

Leads others to solve complex problems, uses sophisticated analytical thought to exercise judgment and identify innovative solutions.

Impact:

Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives.

Interpersonal Skills:

Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view.

Other skills:

Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation) with English fluency

Self-driven - possesses superior organizational skills,