Data Security Specialist, VP

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

About the role

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

The Data Security Engineer role plays a critical function in enabling the secure use of data across emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), by ensuring that sensitive, regulated, and proprietary data is appropriately discovered, classified, governed, and protected throughout its lifecycle. This position is responsible for assessing and managing the organization's data security posture by continuously evaluating current security practices and identifying vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Implement and manage DSPM tools to enhance data protection and compliance with regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure the alignment of DSPM initiatives with overall data security strategies
• Adapt data classification requirements to security tools
• Integrate data classification results with security tools for enrichment and enhanced security
• Work with stakeholders such as Data Privacy, IAM, Security Engineering, and Data Security teams to gather data classification detection requirements
• Define patterns for scanning tools and ensure alignment with governance standards
• Report and analyze data security metrics to inform decision-making
• Advise on data security strategies and best practices
• Oversee the execution and progress of data classification and labeling initiatives
• Assess and mitigate data security risks associated with AI and machine learning use cases, including training data, fine-tuning datasets, inference inputs, and outputs
• Partner with AI, analytics, and engineering teams to ensure data used in AI-enabled solutions complies with classification, privacy, retention, and regulatory requirements
• Support secure adoption of generative AI technologies by enforcing controls that prevent sensitive data exposure, unintended data persistence, or unauthorized reuse
• Contribute to the definition of guardrails for AI data usage, including policy alignment for internal, third-party, and cloud-hosted AI services
• Ensure compliance with data security and protection regulations and standards
• Liaison with governance, legal, and business divisions to maintain and update classification and labeling requirements
• Present findings and strategies to stakeholders

Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in data security and protection
• Must have experience with data classification and labeling tools including BigID and Microsoft Purview
• Proven experience in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), including the assessment, management, and improvement of an organization's data security posture
• Experience in implementing DSPM tools and technologies
• Experience in identifying and mitigating data security risks through continuous monitoring and evaluation of data security practices
• Proven experience in data classification and labeling technology, controls, and processes
• Familiarity with data security considerations for AI/ML systems, including privacy, data leakage, and regulatory risk
• Experience working with stakeholders such as Data Privacy, IAM, Security Engineering, and Data Security teams
• Experience in testing alignment with governance standards and cybersecurity frameworks and advising on data security strategies
• Experience defining and reporting metrics and KPIs/KRIs/KCIs
• Cybersecurity experience in a regulated banking or financial environment preferred

Skills

Functional Skills

• Strong understanding of DSPM principles, including data discovery and classification across traditional data stores and AI-related data pipelines, risk assessment, policy management, incident response, and compliance management
• Ability to define and implement data classification patterns for scanning tools
• Ability to implement adaptive security measures based on data sensitivity and regulatory requirements
• Proficiency in using DSPM tools to gain visibility into data assets and user activities, and to enforce least privilege principles
• Proficiency in reporting and analyzing data security metrics
• Experience in developing and executing data security strategies
• Knowledge of data protection and data loss prevention (DLP) technologies
• Ability to adapt data classification requirements to security tools
• Experience with integrating data classification results with security tools for enrichment and enhanced security
• Ability to apply data classification and labeling controls to datasets used for AI training, testing, and inference
• Ability to integrate data classification results with downstream systems to enable safe data usage in analytics and AI-enabled platforms

Foundational Skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong organizational and project management skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Attention to detail and commitment to quality
• Strong presentation and writing skills

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
• Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
• Any relevant certifications in data security, protection, and governance

Pay

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $121–$194
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $121–$180 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location

This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation.

Benefits

Our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

Schedule

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.