Data Security & Delivery Strategist / Lead - Senior Manager - Associate Director

As a Data Security Delivery Lead, you will drive the design, implementation, and ongoing development and deployment of data security solutions for clients. Your experience in data security architecture will shape strategies and programmes, align data protection approaches with business needs, and help define and evolve operating models, refine processes, and drive technical design, tooling, and implementation options for data security initiatives.

Your responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining client relationships and networks by engaging with key stakeholders such as CIOs, CISOs, DPOs, CTOs, Architecture Leads, Security Operations, Digital Product Leads, and Heads of Data Security.
• Defining data security functional and non‑functional solution requirements, and technical specifications (e.g., data discovery, data access governance, data classification, data loss prevention, encryption, data masking, monitoring, and compliance requirements).
• Performing data‑security‑specific domain‑level baseline exercises such as gap assessments and maturity assessments to surface gaps and issues.
• Defining target states at a data‑security domain level to set out a pragmatic and achievable set of capabilities.
• Producing materials for clients, including eminence activities, go‑to‑market plans, client proposals, deliverables, and executive presentations.
• Working with alliance partnerships to create a pipeline of opportunities and convert and deliver against that pipeline.
• Supporting clients to implement data‑security operating models (covering people, process and technology).
• Delivering data‑security solution delivery projects in complex and time‑pressured circumstances, adhering to standard project‑management approaches.
• Seeking to improve and develop market strategy based upon observed cyber‑security and data protection trends.

Key skills and professional experience:

• Building strong client relationships within engagement delivery and growing relationships outside of delivery.
• Long‑standing data‑security experience and a network of relationships across clients.
• Solid capability to produce client‑friendly materials, presenting complex ideas simply and professionally.
• Experience with waterfall and agile methodologies, often working within client‑specified frameworks.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship skills to manage a variety of client stakeholders from CISO to developer.
• Commercial capability to develop proposals, produce cost estimates, propose compelling commercial offers and present to clients.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including concise communication of status and creation of customer reports and presentations.
• Knowledge of operating‑model and roadmap approaches and experience defining and delivering this type of work.
• Broad data‑security experience across data discovery, data classification, data loss prevention (DLP), data‑security posture management, encryption, data masking, data governance, and data privacy.
• Experience in designing strategies, developing architecture, and implementing data‑security solutions.
• Experience working in a digital transformation environment supporting the definition of data‑security architecture leveraging cloud‑native and/or other data protection solutions.
• Strong and practical experience of cloud hosting services, with a focus on Microsoft Azure, and integration of data‑security controls across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments.
• Understanding of data‑privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), data governance frameworks, and emerging trends in data security.

Based in London with hybrid working.