VP, Data Security Engineering

Our client is a leading global investment organisation with a strong focus on technology, innovation, and cybersecurity resilience. This is a hands-on engineering role responsible for designing, implementing, and enhancing enterprise data security solutions to safeguard critical business information across on-premise and cloud environments. The successful candidate will work closely with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams to strengthen the organisation's data protection capabilities.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and enhance enterprise data security solutions to protect sensitive data across on-premise and cloud environments.
• Lead the deployment and optimisation of technologies including Microsoft Purview, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), and other enterprise data protection solutions.
• Develop and enhance capabilities for data discovery, classification, encryption, masking, tokenisation, and information rights management.
• Evaluate and implement cybersecurity technologies through proof-of-concept (POC) and proof-of-value (POV) initiatives, while partnering with cross-functional teams to integrate security controls into enterprise platforms.
• Provide technical expertise, architecture guidance, and documentation to continuously strengthen the organisation's data security posture.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of IT experience, including a minimum of 8 years in Cybersecurity or Information Security.
• Proven hands-on experience implementing enterprise data security technologies, with expertise in Microsoft Purview, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), or similar data protection platforms.
• Experience securing enterprise environments across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, with scripting or programming skills in Python, Java, C#, or similar languages.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across technology and business teams.

Why Join

• Opportunity to work with one of the world's leading global investment organisations.
• Be part of a highly skilled Cybersecurity Engineering team driving enterprise-wide data protection initiatives.
• Exposure to large-scale enterprise security technologies and cloud environments.
• Collaborative and technology-driven culture with opportunities to work on strategic cybersecurity transformation programmes.