Enterprise Data Cybersecurity Engineer, Lead

Booz Allen Hamilton • McLean, VA

1h • $112,800 - $257,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Principally responsible for Booz Allen Hamilton’s data cybersecurity solution design, strategy, and effectiveness. The role helps shape the company’s worldwide data cybersecurity capabilities by collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop a business-wide converged technological security strategy. This strategy will guide the future security roadmap for the data cybersecurity stack, data protection programs, and go-to-market platform protection models.

The position is accountable for the data cyber solution stack, ensuring data protection controls are appropriately configured and continually reducing data cybersecurity risk. It ensures that cloud data platforms, data lakes, databases, and storage systems—and their configurations across production, test, and extended enterprise environments—meet Booz Allen Hamilton’s security standards. The work includes analyzing and promoting configuration policy changes with data engineering and platform teams, monitoring compliance, assessing and remediating deviations, and promoting a strong data security culture with stakeholders.

The role originates, facilitates, and leads IT and security teams’ efforts to deploy and maintain data protection solutions. It ensures controls such as encryption, tokenization, masking, and key management are properly implemented to defend against emerging threats, and partners with cyber threat and security operations teams on threat-informed data protection strategies.

The engineer communicates and coordinates response and defensive actions across security disciplines, disseminating technical information in support of critical business, go-to-market, and operational infrastructure needs. The position is based in McLean, Virginia, under a hybrid work model.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience managing data platforms or data-centric IT solutions, including databases, data lakes, and cloud data environments.
• 3+ years of experience with cybersecurity solutions such as encryption, key management, data loss prevention, data classification, securing structured and unstructured data, database security, data storage protection, and data lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of cloud-native data architectures and security controls, including AWS, Azure, or GCP data services such as S3, Redshift, BigQuery, and Azure Data Lake, and associated access models and governance controls.
• Knowledge of modern encryption standards, key management systems, and emerging technologies such as quantum-resistant cryptography.
• Knowledge of data-centric cyber threats, including data exfiltration, insider threats, ransomware, and advanced persistent threats targeting sensitive data.
• Knowledge of security incident handling, data risk posture measurement, change management, data governance, policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to integrate disparate data security solutions across system, network, application, and cloud architectures, including through APIs and native cloud services.
• Ability to collaborate with professional confidence and credibility and engage effectively with technologists and leaders across the enterprise.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with programming or scripting languages used in data environments, such as Python or SQL.
• Experience with data governance frameworks, data classification standards, and privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA.
• Knowledge of database structures, data modeling, and query optimization, including SQL and NoSQL platforms.
• Knowledge of applying artificial intelligence in data security and anomaly detection.
• Ability to design, deploy, and maintain data security solutions in enterprise-scale environments with large volumes of sensitive and regulated data.
• IT engineering or security certifications, such as CISSP, CCSP, or CDPSE, or cloud security certifications.

Responsibilities

• Shape Booz Allen Hamilton’s data cybersecurity capabilities and contribute to a business-wide technological security strategy.
• Drive the future security roadmap for the data cybersecurity stack, data protection programs, and go-to-market platform protection models.
• Manage the data cyber solution stack and ensure data protection controls are appropriately configured.
• Ensure data platforms and configurations across production, test, and extended enterprise environments meet security standards.
• Analyze and promote configuration policy changes in partnership with data engineering and platform teams.
• Monitor compliance, perform regular assessments, and identify and remediate deviations.
• Work with stakeholders to promote a strong data security culture.
• Originate, facilitate, and lead IT and security teams’ efforts to deploy and maintain data protection solutions.
• Ensure encryption, tokenization, masking, and key management controls are properly implemented.
• Partner with cyber threat and security operations teams to drive threat-informed data protection strategies.
• Communicate and coordinate response and defensive actions across security disciplines and disseminate technical information as appropriate.

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
• Paid leave.
• Professional development.
• Tuition assistance.
• Work-life programs.
• Dependent care.
• Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior