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# Senior Data Engineer

- **Company:** Orion Innovation
- **Location:** Texas City, TX, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Data Discovery, Information Leak Prevention, Data Security, Key Management, Performance Tuning, Public Key Infrastructure, Systems Development Life Cycle, GitHub Copilot, Tenable Nessus, Hashicorp, Data Management, GPT
- **Published:** July 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2c0d2e3859a64f6b

## About the Role

* Senior-level consulting experience in data security, data protection, or cybersecurity advisory engagements, ideally within Tier-1 financial services

 * Working knowledge across two or more of: cryptography/secrets management (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, PKI), DLP platforms, data discovery/classification and scanning tools, or security architecture and policy

 * Demonstrated experience identifying and scoping AI/automation opportunities within enterprise operating models

 * Strong stakeholder management skills; comfortable leading interviews, workshops, and executive readouts

 * Experience producing operating-model documentation, use-case catalogues, and roadmap artifacts

Preferred Qualifications

 * Prior experience with AI initiative tracking/governance frameworks (risk & controls, benefits tracking)

 * Familiarity with enterprise AI tooling landscape (Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, agent orchestration)

 * Background in large-scale financial services technology or security transformation programs

## Description

Mobilization & Current-State Assessment

 * Establish engagement plan, governance cadence, interview schedule, and workstream structure

 * Confirm in-scope verticals, stakeholder groups, and required artefacts

 * Conduct stakeholder interviews and working sessions across pillars and functions

 * Document current-state operating model, processes, decision points, and friction points

Domain Coverage

 * Cryptography & Secrets: key/certificate lifecycle, secrets onboarding and rotation, vault operations, privileged secrets handling, service-request fulfilment

 * Data Leakage Prevention: DLP policy/ruleset engineering, alert triage and tuning, governance workflows

 * Data Asset Protection: data scanning operations, permissions/entitlement analytics, DSAR workflow support, remediation coordination

 * Policy & Architecture: standards authoring, architecture review support, control interpretation

 * Fleet Enablement, Development & Engineering: roadmap governance, SDLC standardization, engineering standards, tooling consistency

AI Opportunity Identification & Cataloguing

 * Identify AI-enabled use cases across processes, workflows, and engineering delivery for each in-scope pillar

 * Define opportunities for pillar-specific agents and a cross-pillar orchestration agent

 * Populate and maintain the AI Initiatives Tracker (Innovation Backlog, AI Initiatives Register, Risk & Controls, Benefits Tracking)

 * Map current or recommended AI tooling (e.g., M365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT) to each use case

Feasibility, Controls & Roadmap

 * Assess technical feasibility, control requirements, and data-handling implications for prioritized use cases

 * Define target-state operating model, human-in-the-loop points, and governance forums

 * Prioritize opportunities and build a phased implementation roadmap (near/medium/long-term)

Executive Reporting & Knowledge Transfer

 * Prepare executive-ready findings report and leadership presentation

 * Lead validation workshops and readout/knowledge-transfer sessions with client stakeholders


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