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Microsoft Security, Compliance & Identity Architect Associate Director

You Belong Here

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture.  We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level, we champion leaders who live our values of integrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Where We Need You

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Microsoft SCI team. 

What You Can Expect

As an Associate Director, you'll take a lead role in strengthening our relationships with clients and providing seamless guidance in the completion of engagements. You'll partner with our strategic clients to manage risk associated with their use of technology.  You'll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking, and devise solutions to support your clients' needs through analytics, automation or the latest tools and methods. 

You’ll develop new projects, help identify new business, and build lasting relationships with clients and within the community as you serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide growth and development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans. 

The Protiviti Microsoft Services team provides Security services to Clients for the strategy, planning, design, migration and implementation of a wide range of solutions utilizing Microsoft Security solutions such as, but not limited to: 

• M365 Security & Compliance applications 

• Microsoft Purview 

• Microsoft Defender 

• Microsoft Intune 

• Microsoft Sentinel 

• Microsoft Agent 365 

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You enjoy working with the Microsoft security & compliance suite of applications

• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to Microsoft 365 Security technologies, including the latest trends and developments.

• You are passionate about buildingtrusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work.

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership. 

• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members. 

• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve ourclients and communities.

• You enjoy discovering prospective projectwork with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions.

• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.

• You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales. 

• You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.

• You have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries. 

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

• Demonstrated experience with:

• Strong expertise with the Microsoft 365 Security suite from a technical design, implementation and administration standpoint  

• Specific focus on experience architecting and implementing Microsoft Purview (IP, DLP, DLM, eDiscovery) across the collaboration suite of SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, & Exchange  

• Delivering business solutions on Microsoft 365.  (expertise related GCC and GCCH is desired but not )  

• Working with global and large M365 tenants 

• Some of the following Microsoft and other technologies: 

• Entra 

• Intune 

• Defender 

• Sentinel 

• Azure 

• Microsoft Graph 

• Working knowledge of the Microsoft technology stack.  

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives. 

• Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele. 

• Ability to translate and communicate challenges to client personnel, including executives. 

• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.  

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Major, MIS, Engineering, Computer Science or related technical degree).

• 9+ years working in professional services or industry.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.

• 9+ years of experience with strong emphasis on architecture and implementation of Microsoft 365 Security technologies

• Professional Certification such as Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals (SC-900), CISSP, or similar strongly preferred.