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Boston Consulting Group

Global strategy and transformation consulting firm

Global Cybersecurity Senior Manager - Architecture

Security Engineering & ArchitecturePosted on Nov 13
Full-timeLisbon, PortugalNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6–10 years in security architecture, security engineering, or infrastructure security with demonstrated architecture responsibility.
  • Experience operating in large, audit-sensitive, or regulated enterprise environments with formal governance and exception processes.
  • Strong understanding of zero trust architecture (NIST SP 800-207, CISA ZTMM), enterprise control frameworks, and hybrid cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP).
  • Deep hands-on architecture experience with Microsoft Purview (Information Protection, DLP), enterprise data classification programs, and encryption architecture.
  • Working knowledge of key management and secrets management platforms (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, cloud-native KMS/HSM), BYOK patterns, and cryptographic standards lifecycle.
  • Familiarity with insider risk, data egress monitoring, and DLP enforcement across endpoint, network, and SaaS channels.

Responsibilities

  • Define and maintain data security architecture for data loss prevention (DLP), data classification and tagging enforcement, encryption, and data privacy governance interfaces.
  • Own architectural requirements for Microsoft Purview enforcement, including sensitivity labeling, auto-labeling policy design, and DLP policy architecture across endpoints, email, and cloud services.
  • Define data classification enforcement architecture in alignment with the Global Data Classification Policy and Global Data Protection Policy, ensuring controls scale with data sensitivity.
  • Own encryption and key management architecture requirements for infrastructure-managed data, including interfaces to secrets management and enterprise key management platforms, crypto-agility, and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration readiness for infrastructure-managed data and key material.
  • Define secure data access patterns for infrastructure-managed data stores and application interfaces to prevent unauthorized access, exposure, or tampering.
  • Architect DLP coverage for emerging data egress channels, including AI-enabled tooling and agentic workflows, in coordination with Enterprise Security Architecture.
  • Author and maintain security standards, reference architectures, and control requirements governing the Secure Data domain, mapped to CSF-10 (Data Protection) and ZTMM maturity targets.
  • Conduct security architecture reviews for secure data initiatives; issue dispositions, conditions, and architectural decision records traceable to ISRM governance.
  • Contribute domain expertise to ZTMM maturity assessments, control gap analyses, and the security architecture roadmap.
  • Serve as the dedicated architecture counterpart to the Secure Data Engineering Squad, validating feasibility and effectiveness of security controls through implementation without assuming delivery ownership.
  • Define logging, telemetry, and monitoring requirements (CSF-12) for secure data services in partnership with Security Operations, which owns SIEM, detection engineering, and continuous monitoring.
  • Translate enterprise security standards into practical, implementable engineering requirements.
  • Hold architecture authority constructively, enabling delivery teams while keeping governance boundaries intact.
  • Communicate precisely across engineering squads, architecture peers, and senior security leadership.
  • Collaborate with engineering, cloud, identity, infrastructure, and security teams across BCG’s global technology organization to ensure data security controls are consistently designed, implemented, and governed.
  • Partner with Security Operations, Risk Management, and architecture peers to advance Zero Trust Data pillar maturity and support enterprise-wide cybersecurity initiatives.
  • Influence technical direction, build alignment on architectural decisions, and help teams deliver secure, scalable solutions that balance business objectives, operational effectiveness, and risk management.

Desired Qualifications

  • Professional certifications such as CISSP, SABSA, or relevant cloud security certifications.

About the Company

Boston Consulting Group

Global strategy and transformation consulting firm

BCG provides global management consulting, advising leaders in strategy and transformation across industries, with expertise in M&A, operations, pricing, sustainability, and AI. BCG X builds AI solutions, digital products, and new ventures by combining engineers, data scientists, designers, and venture builders for clients. Specialist units Inverto, Platinion, and Quantis support procurement, IT architecture, and sustainability, while the BCG Henderson Institute supplies research. The goal is to help clients achieve lasting performance improvements and durable value through strategic advisory plus hands-on technology execution.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1963

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