Unison Group

Builds financial risk and compliance systems

Lead Cybersecurity Architect - Microsoft Defender XDR & Purview, Project Manager

Security Engineering & ArchitectureConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeKuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia$12k - $15k

About the Job

Requirements

10 to 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity architecture, Microsoft security consulting, solution architecture, or enterprise security delivery.
Strong hands-on experience with both Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview.
Strong knowledge of Defender XDR, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps, and Microsoft Purview.
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.
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.
Strong experience designing Microsoft Purview Information Protection solutions, including data classification, sensitive information types, trainable classifiers, sensitivity labels, auto-labelling, encryption, and content marking.
Experience leading delivery from discovery and design through pilot, rollout, and go-live.
Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture and its application across identities, endpoints, email, applications, collaboration services, and enterprise data.
Ability to evaluate technical decisions, platform limitations, security risks, compliance risks, dependencies, and scope in complex enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

Lead discovery, requirements analysis, architecture, and solution-design activities across Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview.
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.
Design Microsoft Purview solutions covering Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, eDiscovery, and Audit.
Translate business, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, data-protection, and regulatory requirements into implementation-ready Microsoft security and compliance designs.
Prepare high-level designs, detailed designs, architecture diagrams, configuration standards, policy mappings, implementation guides, and Architecture Decision Records.
Lead architecture workshops, technical design sessions, design reviews, implementation walkthroughs, and architecture-governance discussions.
Provide architectural guidance to engineering and implementation teams throughout pilot, validation, phased deployment, and production rollout activities.
Review implementation evidence and validate that Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview configurations align with approved designs.
Develop architecture principles and policy-design standards that support consistent implementation across business units, countries, and technology environments.

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

Unison Group · Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-03

Salary: unknown currency 12,000–15,000

Workplace: on_site

Department: Noresh

Description

Lead discovery, requirements analysis, architecture, and solution-design activities across Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview.
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.
Design Microsoft Purview solutions covering Information Protection, Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Communication Compliance, Data Lifecycle Management, Records Management, eDiscovery, and Audit.
Translate business, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, data-protection, and regulatory requirements into implementation-ready Microsoft security and compliance designs.
Prepare high-level designs, detailed designs, architecture diagrams, configuration standards, policy mappings, implementation guides, and Architecture Decision Records.
Lead architecture workshops, technical design sessions, design reviews, implementation walkthroughs, and architecture-governance discussions.
Provide architectural guidance to engineering and implementation teams throughout pilot, validation, phased deployment, and production rollout activities.
Review implementation evidence and validate that Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview configurations align with approved designs.
Develop architecture principles and policy-design standards that support consistent implementation across business units, countries, and technology environments.

Skills and experiences

Required technical skills

10 to 12+ years of experience in cybersecurity architecture, Microsoft security consulting, solution architecture, or enterprise security delivery.
Strong hands-on experience with both Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview.
Strong knowledge of Defender XDR, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsft Purview Specifically.
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.
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.
Strong experience designing Microsoft Purview Information Protection solutions, including data classification, sensitive information types, trainable classifiers, sensitivity labels, auto-labelling, encryption, and content marking.
Experience leading delivery from discovery and design through pilot, rollout, go-live.
Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture and its application across identities, endpoints, email, applications, collaboration services, and enterprise data.
Ability to evaluate technical decisions, platform limitations, security risks, compliance risks, dependencies, and scope in complex enterprise environments.

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About the Company

Unison Group

Builds financial risk and compliance systems

Unison Group builds technology systems for financial institutions that need to manage risk, meet reporting rules and modernize their operations. Its consultants work across liquidity, market and credit risk, combining financial knowledge with software implementation and data analysis. The business also designs cloud infrastructure and develops custom applications, connecting these systems with the information and processes clients already use. It earns money through consulting, technology implementation and engineering services for enterprises, with work ranging from system design to deployment. Founded as Unison Consulting in 2012, the group is headquartered in Singapore.

Company size: 201-500
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Not listed
Founded: 2012

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