Technical Manager Cyera / Data Security Platform

Summary:

Location: Houston, TX

Duration: 6 months

Work Model: Hybrid 4 days onsite and 1 day remote per week

Start date: ASAP

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end implementation and deployment of Cyera Data Security Platform / DSPM capabilities across enterprise data environments.
• Work closely with Cyera technical teams, Security Architecture, Data Security, Cloud, Infrastructure, Application, and Data Engineering teams to plan and execute implementation activities.
• Coordinate onboarding and integration of enterprise data sources, including databases, cloud data stores, SaaS platforms, data lakes, and other sensitive-data repositories.
• Manage data discovery, classification, data inventory, and sensitive-data identification activities to establish enterprise-wide data visibility.
• Coordinate configuration and tuning of data security policies, risk rules, classifications, access controls, and remediation workflows based on business and security requirements.
• Manage implementation schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, resources, and technical deliverables across multiple workstreams.
• Coordinate integrations between Cyera and enterprise security/data platforms such as SIEM, DLP, IAM, CMDB, cloud security, and data governance platforms where applicable.
• Work with data owners, application teams, security teams, and business stakeholders to validate findings, prioritize data risks, and drive remediation activities.
• Lead testing, validation, UAT, production readiness, deployment, and post-implementation stabilization activities for Cyera capabilities.
• Establish implementation governance, technical documentation, SOPs, runbooks, configuration standards, and operational handoff processes.
• Develop project dashboards, implementation metrics, risk reports, and executive-level status updates covering deployment progress, data-source onboarding, findings, remediation, and platform adoption.
• Manage vendor coordination and provide technical leadership throughout implementation, issue resolution, platform optimization, and transition to steady-state operations.

Requirements:

• 8 10 years of experience in cybersecurity, data security, cloud security, data governance, security engineering, or technical program/project management.
• Hands-on experience managing or leading Cyera implementations is strongly preferred, including data-source onboarding, discovery/classification, risk analysis, integrations, testing, and production rollout.
• Strong understanding of DSPM, data discovery, data classification, sensitive-data protection, data access/risk analysis, and data security governance.
• Experience managing enterprise security platform implementations involving cross-functional teams across Cybersecurity, Data, Cloud, Infrastructure, Applications, IAM, and Compliance.
• Strong project/technical management skills, including implementation planning, dependency and risk management, vendor coordination, stakeholder management, executive reporting, and production readiness.

Required Skills:

• Experience with Cyera DSPM in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with comparable DSPM/data-security platforms such as BigID, Securiti, Microsoft Purview, Varonis, Wiz, Sentra, or similar.
• Experience integrating data security platforms with SIEM/SOAR, DLP, IAM, CMDB, cloud platforms, and data governance solutions.
• Experience working with Azure/AWS/GCP, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Snowflake, Databricks, data lakes, SaaS applications, and enterprise data repositories.

Preferred Skills:

• PMP, Scrum/Agile, cybersecurity, cloud, or data-security certification is a plus.

Benefits:

Information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.