Associate Tech Lead - Cybersecurity

The Purpose

The Associate Tech Lead - Cybersecurity provides lead-level technical accountability across customer engagements, ensuring secure architecture, consistent delivery quality, effective resource coordination, team capability growth, and successful customer outcomes. The role remains technically hands-on where required, but its primary value is governance, direction, assurance, escalation ownership, and development of the cybersecurity practice.

The Job

• Act as the accountable technical owner for assigned cybersecurity portfolios, aligning architecture and delivery decisions with customer outcomes and security requirements.

• Review and approve high-level and low-level designs, implementation plans, migration strategies, test plans, and operational runbooks.

• Establish and maintain reference architectures, engineering standards, design patterns, and reusable delivery assets for Microsoft and Non-Microsoft Security solutions.

• Chair architecture and design reviews, document decisions, risks, and required remediation actions, and provide final technical sign-off for key milestones.

• Oversee technical delivery across multiple customer engagements, ensuring quality, milestone readiness, and managing technical risks.

• Conduct delivery health reviews, post-implementation reviews, and lessons-learned sessions to drive process improvements.

• Ensure project documentation, handover artifacts, and operational readiness meet agreed standards, and intervene in complex workstreams when necessary.

• Provide functional leadership to Security Engineers, Associate Security Engineers, and Interns, supporting capacity planning and task prioritization.

• Set technical expectations, conduct design and deployment reviews, and provide coaching and development feedback.

• Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex cybersecurity issues, coordinating problem investigation and recovery planning.

• Build trusted-advisor relationships with customer CISOs, CIOs, IT leaders, and security teams, leading security strategy workshops and executive briefings.

• Lead technical discovery and solution strategy for complex cybersecurity opportunities, providing technical leadership for RFPs, RFIs, and proposals.

• Oversee technical quality of Microsoft Sentinel detection engineering, KQL content, SOAR playbooks, threat hunting, and incident response activities.