Director, Information Governance

Information Governance Senior Manager / Director 

The Director / Senior Manager / Team Lead – Identity, Threat & SIEM is a senior, hands-on leadership role within the Security Advisory practice. This role is responsible for building and leading a team of Security Professionals focused on Microsoft Entra, the Microsoft Defender Suite, and Microsoft Sentinel, while also maintaining direct individual contributor responsibilities across advisory, implementation, and client delivery engagements. The position blends people leadership, technical depth, and client-facing delivery, acting as both a practice leader and senior security advisor. The role supports presales strategy, workshop delivery, solution implementation, and ongoing security advisory, ensuring both delivery quality and consistent technical direction across engagements. 

This role also carries billable utilization expectations, account management of assigned customers which contributes to practice growth, and serves as a senior escalation point for complex identity, threat protection, and SIEM engagements. The geographic scope is potentially global, with a primary focus on North American clients. 

Responsibilities 

Advisory 

• Lead and coach a team delivering Entra, Defender, and Sentinel services. 

• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance across engagements. 

• Develop team capability and support career progression. 

• Escalation point for complex client issues, architecture decisions, and delivery challenges. 

• Help build practice standards, delivery frameworks, and repeatable offerings. 

• Senior SME for Microsoft Entra ID (Conditional Access, Identity Protection, PIM, lifecycle governance, Zero Trust). 

• Lead/review identity architectures and remediation roadmaps. 

• Advise on identity risk, access control, and regulatory alignment. 

• Support complex hybrid and cloud-only identity deployments. 

• Lead and support Microsoft Defender Suite implementations (MDE, MDI, MDCA etc) 

• Guide detection strategy, alert tuning, and IR alignment to operating models. 

• Provide advanced threat analysis, incident response support, and threat hunting as needed. 

• Ensure consistent, best-practice use of Defender across engagements. 

• Lead design, deployment, and optimization of Microsoft Sentinel. 

• Review analytics rules, automation playbooks, data connectors, and SOC workflows. 

• Advise on SIEM maturity, SOC evolution, and Entra/Defender integration. 

• Support complex SIEM architectures and operationalization with security leadership. 

• Remain hands-on and billable across advisory, workshops, and implementations. 

• Lead workshops, design sessions, and executive briefings. 

Pre Sales Support & Client Strategy 

• Technical lead for pre-sales solution design, scoping, and validation. 

• Lead discovery, assessments, and executive-level architecture discussions. 

• Partner with sales teams to shape and position Microsoft security offerings. 

• Contribute to proposals, SOWs, and service definitions. 

Requirements 

Required 

• Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of Security and AI technologies specifically withing the Microsoft platform 

• Experience: 6+ years delivering enterprise security solutions across: 

• Identity and access management 

• Endpoint and cloud threat protection 

• SIEM / SOC operations 

• Communication Skills: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and engaging manner. 

• Public Speaking: Experience in public speaking and delivering presentations to diverse audiences. 

• Marketing Acumen: Knowledge of marketing strategies and techniques, particularly in the tech industry. 

• Player/coach: lead while staying hands-on. 

• Community Building: Proven track record in building and nurturing communities around technology products. 

• Creativity: Ability to create engaging and informative content across various platforms. 

• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to a fast-paced and evolving technological landscape. 

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) is preferred, but not a requirement. 

• Strategic thinker who can lead the largest engagements while being supported by junior level staff. 

• Independent direction for daily tasks.  

• Collaborative mindset and service orientation. 

• Microsoft security/identity certs (e.g., SC-200, SC-300, AZ-500). 

• CISSP/CISM/CCSP a plus. 

• North America and international travel is variable and up to 25% annually. 

Preferred 

• AI governance frameworks & control mapping 

• LLM/GenAI threat modeling 

• Identity, access, and secrets for AI workloads 

• Data security for AI (sensitive data classification, DLP, encryption, retention for prompts etc.) 

• Secure RAG and grounding architecture 

• Model lifecycle security (secure SDLC/MLOps, etc.) 

• AI security monitoring & detection engineering 

• AI incident response & red teaming (abuse testing, safety evaluations, playbooks, post-incident controls) 

• Third-party AI/vendor risk management (model transparency, data usage terms, auditability, security requirements) 

• Responsible AI assurance (bias/fairness, explainability, human oversight) integrated with security and compliance controls 

• Microsoft security/identity certs (e.g., SC-200, SC-300, AZ-500). 

• CISSP/CISM/CCSP a plus. 

The Compensation range for this role is $200,000 USD up to $220,000 CAD  annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus. This will be based on your background and skills alignment with the role.