Lead CyberSecurity Architect - Microsoft Defender XDR & Purview- Project Manager

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<li>Lead discovery, requirements analysis, architecture, and solution-design activities across Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview.</li>
<li>Design integrated Microsoft Defender XDR solutions covering Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Identity, Microsoft Defender for Office 365, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.</li>
<li>Design Microsoft Purview solutions covering Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, eDiscovery, and Audit.</li>
<li>Translate business, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, data-protection, and regulatory requirements into implementation-ready Microsoft security and compliance designs.</li>
<li>Prepare high-level designs, detailed designs, architecture diagrams, configuration standards, policy mappings, implementation guides, and Architecture Decision Records.</li>
<li>Lead architecture workshops, technical design sessions, design reviews, implementation walkthroughs, and architecture-governance discussions.</li>
<li>Provide architectural guidance to engineering and implementation teams throughout pilot, validation, phased deployment, and production rollout activities.</li>
<li>Review implementation evidence and validate that Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview configurations align with approved designs.</li>
<li>Develop architecture principles and policy-design standards that support consistent implementation across business units, countries, and technology environments.</li>
</ul><h2>Skills and experiences</h2><h2>Required technical skills</h2><ul>
<li>10 to 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity architecture, Microsoft security consulting, solution architecture, or enterprise security delivery.</li>
<li>Strong hands-on experience with both Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of Defender XDR, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsft Purview Specifically.</li>
<li>Strong experience designing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint architecture, including endpoint onboarding, endpoint security policies, endpoint detection and response, antivirus, attack surface reduction, device control, web protection, and security settings management.</li>
<li>Experience designing Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps architecture, including cloud discovery, application governance, session controls, Conditional Access App Control, activity policies, and SaaS application protection.</li>
<li>Strong experience designing Microsoft Purview Information Protection solutions, including data classification, sensitive information types, trainable classifiers, sensitivity labels, auto-labelling, encryption, and content marking.</li>
<li>Experience leading delivery from discovery and design through pilot, rollout, go-live.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture and its application across identities, endpoints, email, applications, collaboration services, and enterprise data.</li>
<li>Ability to evaluate technical decisions, platform limitations, security risks, compliance risks, dependencies, and scope in complex enterprise environments.</li>
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