Associate Tech Lead - Cybersecurity

About the role

The Associate Tech Lead - Cybersecurity provides lead-level technical accountability across customer engagements, ensuring secure architecture, consistent delivery quality, effective resource coordination, team capability growth and successful customer outcomes. The role is primarily governance, direction, assurance and escalation ownership, while remaining hands-on where required.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the accountable technical owner for assigned cybersecurity portfolios, aligning architecture and delivery decisions with customer outcomes and security requirements.
• Review and approve designs, implementation plans, migration strategies, test plans and operational runbooks.
• Establish and maintain reference architectures, engineering standards, design patterns and reusable delivery assets for Microsoft and non-Microsoft security solutions.
• Chair architecture and design reviews, document decisions and risks, and give final technical sign-off on key milestones.
• Oversee technical delivery across multiple customer engagements, manage technical risks and ensure project documentation and handover artifacts meet agreed standards.
• Run delivery health reviews, post-implementation reviews and lessons-learned sessions.
• Provide functional leadership to Security Engineers, Associate Security Engineers and interns, set technical expectations and coach and develop the team.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex issues and build trusted relationships with customer CISOs, CIOs and IT leaders.
• Lead technical discovery and solution strategy for complex opportunities, including RFPs, RFIs and proposals.
• Oversee the quality of Microsoft Sentinel detection engineering, KQL content, SOAR playbooks, threat hunting and incident response.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, engineering or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification in cybersecurity, information security, technology management or business administration is an advantage.
• Typically 5-8 years of progressive cybersecurity experience, including substantial hands-on delivery in Microsoft Security environments.
• At least 2 years of demonstrated responsibility for technical leadership, architecture review, workstream leadership, mentoring or multi-engagement coordination.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise cybersecurity projects in a Microsoft Partner, MSSP, consulting or regulated-industry environment.
• Experience handling technical escalations, customer stakeholders, delivery risk and quality assurance.

Required skills

• Automation and infrastructure-as-code with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, Bicep/ARM, Terraform and Logic Apps.
• Security architecture, threat modelling, incident response, detection engineering, risk assessment, compliance mapping and operational readiness.
• All relevant Microsoft certifications are highly desirable.
• Pre-sales skills including requirement gathering, solution design and technical presentations.