Cyber Data Protection and Encryption Senior Consultant
Our Deloitte Cyber team understands the unique challenges and opportunities businesses face in cybersecurity. Join our team to deliver powerful solutions to help our clients navigate the ever-changing threat landscape. Through powerful solutions and managed services that simplify complexity, we enable our clients to operate with resilience, grow with confidence, and proactively manage to secure success.
The Team
Our Cyber Strategy & Transformation offering develops and transforms cyber programs in line with a client's strategic objectives, regulatory requirements, and risk appetite. It keeps the enterprise a step ahead of the evolving threat landscape and gives stakeholders confidence in the organization's cyber posture. Includes design of the cyber organization, governance, and risk assessments.
The recruiting for the role ends on 8/31/2025
Work You'll Do
Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to our clients, assisting them to evaluate strategic and practical data protection and encryption requirements based on new and emerging data risks, advising on best practices for data encryption, decryption, and secure key management
Assist clients in designing, implementing and operating technology and process solutions to reduce data risks
Assist clients in developing and leading the implementation of encryption strategies to protect sensitive data across various environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid infrastructures
Assist clients to manage the deployment and lifecycle of PKI systems, ensuring robust and scalable certificate management processes. Monitor and maintain the health of certificate infrastructures to prevent downtime and security breaches.
Assist clients with developing requirements, evaluating vendor solutions, architecting, implementing and operating data protection solutions
Aid in the delivery of client engagements, ensuring success by:
Driving day-to-day execution, communicating updates to clients and firm leadership
Providing leadership and support to delivery teams to ensure completion and accuracy of high-quality work products
Tracking and reporting on project timelines to ensure on time and on budget delivery
Contribute to Deloitte's thought leadership in client organizations and external marketplace
Foster an environment of inclusion and well-being
Stay up to date on emerging encryption technologies (e.g., post-quantum cryptography, confidential computing, secure enclaves, envelop encryption) and industry trends around cyber risk, data protection and cryptography practices.
Proactively evaluate and recommend new tools and solutions to enhance data security
Qualifications
Required:
4+ years of professional experience within data protection and information security, which may include Data Discovery, Data Classification and Rights Management, Data Access Governance, Data Loss Prevention, Cloud Access Security Broker, Encryption, Certificate Lifecycle Management, Cloud Security, SaaS Security
2+ years of professional experience managing and implementing various encryption technologies (e.g., database encryption, file encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), certificate lifecycle management (CLM), transport layer security(TLS)) and strong understanding of Cloud encryption concepts such as client-side encryption, bring your own key (BYOK), server-side encryption.
2+ years of professional experience developing data protection strategies, roadmaps and frameworks; experience may include designing, implementing and operating data protections services
2+ years of total hands-on technical experience with one or more data protection technologies
Experience in vendor relationship management with market leading data protection and encryption vendors (e.g., Thales, AppViewX, Venafi, Fortanix, Digicert, Protegrity)
Experience defining data protection use cases, documenting business requirements and evaluating technology solutions
Experience with data risk program design, including alignment to cybersecurity and compliance programs.
Experience working with data protection and information security policies, standards and procedures
Experience leading collaborative efforts across organizational silos, including multifunctional teams of IT professionals, legal/compliance teams, and business executives
Experience with cloud collaboration tools and security/compliance, particularly Microsoft 365
Familiarity with change management, deployment and operational processes in large IT organizations
Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or similar.
Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field
Ability to travel 25-50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
Limited sponsorship maybe available
Preferred:
Quantum readiness and AI protection experience a strong plus
Significant industry work experience preferred
Experience with public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) security and modern data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Data bricks, Starburst)
Experience or familiarity with emerging data protection technologies for user communications, e.g., Secure Access Service Edge, Data Security Posture Management, Data Security Platforms and Synthetic Data
Familiarity with networks, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and end point security
Familiarity with popular databases on both windows and UNIX platforms, including Oracle and MS SQL
Familiarity with common identity, authentication, and directory services, such as Active Directory and LDAP
Familiarity with sophisticated multinational companies and distributed business models
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The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $118,700 - $218,600.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.