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And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.\nAI Data Protection Staff Engineer\nRole summary\nWe are looking for an AI Data Protection Staff Engineer to lead more complex engineering work across AI-enabled data protection deployments, with a stronger emphasis on automation, reusable assets, and hybrid/agentic deployment patterns. This role builds on the field engineer foundation by adding greater solution depth, stronger technical ownership, and the ability to operationalize scalable patterns that can be reused across multiple client environments. The internal role matrix specifically places this level at “above field engineer + agentic hybrid deployment, automate.\nKey responsibilities\nLead the engineering design and implementation of advanced data protection solutions spanning discovery/classification, protection controls, PKI/KMS integrations, and rights management capabilities in AI-enabled enterprise environments.\nBuild and industrialize automation for deployment, policy tuning, control validation, reporting, and operational workflows using scripting, APIs, and engineering tooling. The internal frontier AI materials also identify automation-oriented assets such as smart classification and data map, rapid policy config deployer, and triage orchestrator as target capabilities for the adaptive data protection pillar.\nDesign and deploy hybrid and agentic patterns that bring together data protection platforms, AI tools, and enterprise data/workflow integrations while maintaining security, privacy, and control effectiveness.\nOwn technical workstreams in client engagements, including design decisions, engineering quality, integration approaches, troubleshooting of complex issues, and stabilization planning.\nCreate reusable accelerators such as prompts, engineering patterns, code libraries, configuration baselines, implementation templates, and testing artifacts to improve delivery speed and consistency across the practice. Comparable FDE and AI engineering roles explicitly emphasize reusable frameworks and reference implementations.\nMentor junior engineers and help uplift practice capability through code reviews, knowledge transfer, technical coaching, and contribution to internal engineering standards.\nWork across data protection, AI engineering, privacy, and cloud teams to ensure solutions are operationally sound, scalable, and aligned with client architecture and compliance requirements.\nRequired qualifications\n5-8 years of experience in data protection engineering, cybersecurity engineering, privacy engineering, cloud security engineering, or adjacent domains.\nStrong hands-on experience with data protection, data discovery/classification, PKI & KMS, and information rights management.\nWorking knowledge of ML, deep learning, NLP, RAG, AI-assisted prioritization, and model risk scoring, with the ability to apply these concepts in production-oriented delivery contexts.\nExperience with one or more major data protection ecosystems such as Microsoft Purview, Cyera, Varonis, Sentra, CrowdStrike Falcon DSPM, or Wiz DSPM.\nStrong scripting/integration skills in Python, plus experience with APIs, cloud services, and engineering toolchains.\nAbility to independently lead technical workstreams in ambiguous, client-facing delivery environments. Comparable customer-facing AI engineering roles strongly emphasize production-grade delivery, communication, and end-to-end ownership.\nPreferred qualifications\nExperience with automated policy deployment, classification engineering, data mapping, or AI-enabled triage/orchestration patterns.\nFamiliarity with privacy and cross-border data transfer considerations in AI use cases. Internal guidance explicitly highlights the importance of permissions, personal data handling, and cross-border processing when AI systems use enterprise data.\nExperience contributing to internal assets, managed services, or engineering standards within a professional services or product engineering environment.\nWhy join us\nJoin a globally connected cybersecurity practice helping clients protect sensitive data in an AI-driven world. You will work at the intersection of data protection, privacy, cloud, and frontier AI - helping shape practical, scalable solutions that reduce risk, enable trust, and support secure business transformation. 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