Principal Data Protection & Security Architect

Job Description

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data protection and security architectures across Azure and Databricks platforms, ensuring alignment with organizational security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Define and implement data security controls including encryption, tokenization, obfuscation, data masking, row-level security, attribute/column-level security, access governance, and data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities.
• Architect secure data platform solutions leveraging Azure security services, Databricks Unity Catalog, identity and access management controls, key management, auditing, monitoring, and compliance frameworks.
• Partner with business, security, compliance, architecture, and engineering teams to establish security patterns, standards, reference architectures, and implementation roadmaps for modern data platforms.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat assessments, data protection impact assessments, and control effectiveness reviews to identify risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Define enterprise-wide governance models for sensitive data classification, access management, data sharing, lineage, retention, and regulatory compliance.
• Provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise for strategic initiatives involving cloud modernization, analytics platforms, AI/ML environments, and data product ecosystems.
• Lead client and stakeholder discussions related to platform security strategy, security architecture decisions, compliance requirements, and remediation planning.
• Establish security best practices and secure-by-design principles across the data platform lifecycle, including development, testing, deployment, and operations.
• Mentor engineering, architecture, and security teams while driving adoption of enterprise security standards and operational excellence.