Associate Director - Data Security & Architecture

Skills : Data Security, Zero Trust Data Security, IT Architecture Job Description : Your Primary Responsibilities : - Produce security architecture deliverables as part of initiatives related to client data and its consumption modes. - Proactively identify security gaps, propose solutions, and follow through with engineering teams for implementation. - Be the subject matter expert for Data Security through the enterprise along with the security architecture team. - Inspire team members and junior staff to contribute new ideas and alternative approaches. - Design and optimize solutions to protect organization's data infrastructure, integrating cloud-based and on-premise components such as DLP, IPS, WAF, Proxy, access control management. - Create and drive the internal and client data security capability roadmap within information technology & the respective IT stakeholders. - Create and drive the Zero Trust data modernization roadmap within information technology & the respective IT stakeholders. - Design Zero Trust data security controls through modern security technologies such as DSPM, DLP. - Influence change of control policies with Technology Risk Management & build strong partnerships with IT Architecture & Application Development partners. - Create IT security standards and drive best-practices which are easily consumed by IT stakeholders. - Lead the technical analysis of data security capabilities with the aim of delivery new or enhanced security capabilities. - Identify automation opportunities for data security controls lifecycle management. - Act as the domain specialist to help guide and shape how network security controls are enabled and enforced. - Mentor junior security architects to enhance their security and architecture skills within the team. - Deliver high-quality executive architecture presentations and demonstrations. - Maintain professional and technical process knowledge by keeping abreast of the changing security landscape within the technology industry and changes in cybersecurity frameworks. - Create white papers and presentations in industry conferences to present thought leadership in security field. - Align risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately. - Solid understanding of data security principles and encryption trends including quantum-resistant cryptography. - Understanding of applied cryptography, key management, encryption at-rest and in-transit use cases and requirements. - Experience in designing and implementing complex cloud architectures and cloud-native services. - Solid working knowledge with data loss prevention techniques and DLP technologies. - In-depth technical knowledge with DSPM, ASPM platforms. - Technical understanding of Hardware Security Modules design and experience deploying and operating HSM-based solutions. - Post Quantum Computing & Encryption knowledge is a plus. - In-depth knowledge of at-rest/in-transit/in-use security controls, data classifications. - Strong Information Security experience, specifically in data security domain (on premise and hybrid-cloud). - Solid working knowledge with Next Gen firewalls, WAFs, proxies, IPS, traffic capturing and inspection technologies. - Provide expert knowledge and experience performing deep packet troubleshooting and analysis with Wireshark, packet analyzer. - In-depth knowledge of Zero Trust paradigm and data pillar designs improvements aligned with Zero Trust best practices. - Working knowledge with 3 vendors such as : Wiz, Zscaler, Akamai, Cloud-based data security services (AWS Macie, Azure Purview). - Experience in data aggregation and transformation processes, ETL, unstructured and structured data schema processing and mapping, data pipelines, data repositories and warehouse strategies. (ref:hirist.tech)

Location: chennai, IN

Posted Date: 11/10/2024