IT Security Engineer Senior Specialist - Digital Collaboration

Who We Are

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To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures - and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

BCG is looking for innovative and effective ways to safeguard collaboration experiences and protect BCG and client data. Our security engineering team is tasked with partnering with our SaaS and Sustaining Engineering teams, as well as our Solution Architecture team, to ensure that we are executing the security policies of our organization effectively. This role spans across the entirety of the Digital Collaboration product portfolio as part of our central control plane management.

In partnership with your team members, your duties will include:

Designing, administering, and configuring collaboration security capabilities across Microsoft 365 and non-Microsoft platforms.

Implementing data lifecycle management, retention, and records management capabilities

Applying defense-in-depth principles and compliance-by-default thinking to configurations and

operational activities

Creating and improving technical solutions for defined use cases and emerging requirements

Executing vulnerability management and event detection activities across existing BCG solutions, in alignment with Security Operations direction

Partnering with our Secure Data squad to tune and improve Data Loss Prevention capabilities and policy efficacy

Identifying opportunities to automate and streamline security analysis, response, and policy

configuration

Serving as an escalation point for high-visibility or high-criticality issues, including regional or global outages involving our IT Services team and external vendor partners when necessary

Working with Security Architecture to define and execute an enterprise-scale, automation-first

approach to data labeling and classification

Troubleshooting Purview and broader security suite issues, including the creation of automated and agentic resolution approaches

Designing, monitoring, and responding to service health needs

Creating and maintaining documentation and runbooks

Supporting other areas of BCG Digital Collaboration team as needed

What You'll Bring

Understanding of security controls frameworks and operational excellence procedures and

protocols

Strong knowledge of the security and compliance product market

Working knowledge of scripting (i.e. Powershell), workflow automation (i.e. Power Automate), and API consumption (i.e. Microsoft Graph) is preferred.

Prior experience implementing and administering Microsoft Purview and/or Defender

Solid knowledge of enterprise collaboration platforms, including Microsoft 365 and Google

Workspace, messaging, whiteboarding, and virtual conferencing tools

Experience working in complex enterprise organizations with multi-vendor ecosystems, including the ability to help disparate platforms operate together effectively and identity pain points or capability gaps

Proven experience solving complex problems with simple, effective solutions

Understanding of security concepts and how data flows through collaboration tools, including how to protect data at rest and in transit across corporate and public networks

Prior knowledge of GenAI tool security and governance strongly preferred

Level C2 English proficiency as demonstrated by IELTS 7+, TOEFL iBT 94+, TOEIC 901+,

CAMBRIDGE CPE, or comparable demonstrated proficiency.

Who You'll Work With

This individual will collaborate with other BCG information technology teams such as ISRM, Identity, Secure Infrastructure Platforms, and Personal Productivity to ensure alignment with BCG’s overall IT architecture plan.

Additional info

YOU’RE GOOD AT

Thinking creatively and entrepreneurially to develop concepts and solutions for the firm’s most

challenging collaboration needs

Applying a security and compliance mindset, with the ability to anticipate risks and identify

problems or patterns early

Using strong problem-solving skills to identity and resolve issues quickly

Working independently as well as part of a virtual, geographically dispersed team while maintaining ownership and a bias towards action

Handling difficult or stressful situations with poise, tact, patience, and empathy

Applying strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and a high standard for quality

Bringing change management and engineering discipline to protect the integrity of production

environments

Working in an agile delivery environment to define, manage, and track work in Jira

Communicating clearly in verbal, written, and presentation settings, including explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Collaborating across functions and influencing outcomes without relying on direct authority.