Job Description:Information Governance Senior Manager / DirectorThe Director / Senior Manager / Team Lead - Identity, Threat & SIEM is a senior, hands-on leadership role within the Security Advisory practice. This role is responsible for building and leading a team of Security Professionals focused on Microsoft Entra, the Microsoft Defender Suite, and Microsoft Sentinel, while also maintaining direct individual contributor responsibilities across advisory, implementation, and client delivery engagements. The position blends people leadership, technical depth, and client-facing delivery, acting as both a practice leader and senior security advisor. The role supports presales strategy, workshop delivery, solution implementation, and ongoing security advisory, ensuring both delivery quality and consistent technical direction across engagements.
This role also carries billable utilization expectations, account management of assigned customers which contributes to practice growth, and serves as a senior escalation point for complex identity, threat protection, and SIEM engagements. The geographic scope is potentially global, with a primary focus on North American clients.
Responsibilities Advisory
- Lead and coach a team delivering Entra, Defender, and Sentinel services.
- Provide technical oversight and quality assurance across engagements.
- Develop team capability and support career progression.
- Escalation point for complex client issues, architecture decisions, and delivery challenges.
- Help build practice standards, delivery frameworks, and repeatable offerings.
- Senior SME for Microsoft Entra ID (Conditional Access, Identity Protection, PIM, lifecycle governance, Zero Trust).
- Lead/review identity architectures and remediation roadmaps.
- Advise on identity risk, access control, and regulatory alignment.
- Support complex hybrid and cloud-only identity deployments.
- Lead and support Microsoft Defender Suite implementations (MDE, MDI, MDCA etc)
- Guide detection strategy, alert tuning, and IR alignment to operating models.
- Provide advanced threat analysis, incident response support, and threat hunting as needed.
- Ensure consistent, best-practice use of Defender across engagements.
- Lead design, deployment, and optimization of Microsoft Sentinel.
- Review analytics rules, automation playbooks, data connectors, and SOC workflows.
- Advise on SIEM maturity, SOC evolution, and Entra/Defender integration.
- Support complex SIEM architectures and operationalization with security leadership.
- Remain hands-on and billable across advisory, workshops, and implementations.
- Lead workshops, design sessions, and executive briefings.
Pre Sales Support & Client Strategy
- Technical lead for pre-sales solution design, scoping, and validation.
- Lead discovery, assessments, and executive-level architecture discussions.
- Partner with sales teams to shape and position Microsoft security offerings.
- Contribute to proposals, SOWs, and service definitions.
Requirements - Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of Security and AI technologies specifically withing the Microsoft platform
- Experience: 6+ years delivering enterprise security solutions across:
- Identity and access management
- Endpoint and cloud threat protection
- Communication Skills: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear and engaging manner.
- Public Speaking: Experience in public speaking and delivering presentations to diverse audiences.
- Marketing Acumen: Knowledge of marketing strategies and techniques, particularly in the tech industry.
- Player/coach: lead while staying hands-on.
- Community Building: Proven track record in building and nurturing communities around technology products.
- Creativity: Ability to create engaging and informative content across various platforms.
- Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to a fast-paced and evolving technological landscape.
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) is preferred, but not a requirement.
- Strategic thinker who can lead the largest engagements while being supported by junior level staff.
- Independent direction for daily tasks.
- Collaborative mindset and service orientation.
- Microsoft security/identity certs (e.g., SC-200, SC-300, AZ-500).
- North America and international travel is variable and up to 25% annually.
he Compensation range for this role is 180,000 to 190,000 USD annually and may be eligible for an annual bonus.
Your specific salary will be determined based on several factors:
- Location-based market rate for the role
- Your abilities in relation to the job specification
- Performance during screening and interview
- Pay parity with the wider team in the considered location
Further details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.
Click here to learn about Epiq's Benefits.
Epiq Leadership CompassFosters Relationships & Collaboration Builds trust and alignment through open communication, shared goals, and strong partnerships to drive collective success.
- Build trust-based partnerships
- Nurture long-term relationships
- Remove collaboration barriers
- Celebrate cross-team success
Engages & InfluencesInspires action and alignment through clear communication, purposeful influence, and a compelling vision.
- Use storytelling to build buy-in
- Align communication with organizational goals
- Guild alignment through strong engagement
Maximizes PerformanceSets and reinforces performance standards that drive results, ensure accountability, and align with Epiq's goals.
- Use data to identify improvement opportunities
- Make informed decisions
- Align team goals with boarder strategy
- Empower teams to manage their own goals
- Translate vision into clear priorities
- Prepare for disruptions with strong change management
Achieves Operational SuccessDrives continuous improvement and operational excellence through smart processes, data insights, and quality execution.
- Improve workflows for team efficiency
- Use clear documentation and expectations
- Resolve issues quickly using data and feedback
