Are you passionate about protecting valuable information while enabling innovation?
At imec, you will help safeguard some of the world's most advanced semiconductor research, intellectual property and technology innovations. Working at the heart of a globally leading R&D organization, you will play a key role in protecting the information assets that enable breakthrough research and strategic collaborations across industry, academia and government.
To further strengthen our corporate security team, imec is looking for an Information Protection & DLP Solution Architect who will take up technical ownership of imec's information protection and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities.
In this hybrid role, you combine strategic architecture responsibilities with hands-on engineering and operational activities. You will define the future vision for information protection at imec while designing, implementing and continuously improving the controls that protect sensitive information from unauthorized disclosure.
As the technical owner of imec's information protection and DLP capabilities, you will be accountable for the architecture, effectiveness, technical evolution and operational maturity of the solution landscape. . You will ensure that imec can continue to collaborate openly and innovatively while protecting its most valuable research, intellectual property and confidential information.
For this position, we are only recruiting payroll employees. Freelance, contractor, and consultancy arrangements are outside the scope of this vacancy and will therefore not be considered.
As a DLP Solution Architect, your key responsibilities include:
- Define and maintain the target architecture, technical roadmap and standards for imec's information protection and DLP capabilities.
- Design, implement, operate and continuously improve information protection and DLP controls across cloud services, endpoints, collaboration platforms and business systems.
- Translate business, compliance and security requirements into scalable technical architectures, controls and workflows.
- Define and drive the long-term vision for information protection at imec, ensuring capabilities evolve in line with new research activities, strategic collaborations, cloud adoption and AI-driven ways of working.
- Develop architecture documentation, implementation standards, technical designs and operational procedures.
- Drive continuous improvement through control optimization, automation, reporting and operational excellence.
- Provide technical leadership during DLP investigations and incident response activities by analysing alerts, identifying root causes and improving detection effectiveness.
- Work closely with security analysts, policy owners, architects and business stakeholders to translate information protection objectives into effective technical capabilities and controls.
- Act as the technical authority for information protection and DLP within imec, guiding architectural decisions, technical standards and future capability development.
- Drive the evolution of imec's information protection capabilities by evaluating and implementing innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, to improve data classification, threat detection, incident prioritization and overall protection effectiveness.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI-driven insights and automation to reduce operational overhead, improve detection quality, minimize false positives and enable more risk-based protection of sensitive information.
- Monitor emerging information protection, insider risk and AI-related threats and translate these developments into practical improvements to imec's security posture.
We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you’ll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will determine the society of tomorrow.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, 'our corporate university', we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth.
We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits.
Experience & knowledge
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Cybersecurity or a related field combined with practical experience.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale information protection and DLP solutions.
- Strong understanding of DLP, information protection, insider risk management and related security domains.
- Experience translating security, regulatory and business requirements into practical technical architectures and controls.
- Experience operating and maintaining security controls in complex production environments.
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms, endpoint management, identity and access management, and enterprise security architectures.
- Experience creating architecture documentation, standards, roadmaps and technical designs.
- Experience balancing long-term architectural direction with hands-on engineering and operational responsibilities.
- Understanding of how artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics can support information protection, insider risk management and data loss prevention objectives.
- Familiarity with emerging information protection challenges related to generative AI, large language models and AI-enabled business processes.
Skills & mindset
- Passionate about improving security through innovation, automation and data-driven decision making.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to combine strategic architectural thinking with hands-on implementation and operational work.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Detail-oriented and organized, with a structured approach to architecture, engineering and continuous improvement.
- Clear communication in English, enabling effective collaboration in a multicultural environment.
- Comfortable balancing security requirements with business realities.
- Curious and proactive in staying up to date with developments in information protection, cyber security and emerging technologies.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary teams.
Additional requirement:
- Ability and willingness to obtain a security clearance – a requirement for this role.
Following assets are considered a plus:
- Experience with security operations, threat detection or incident response.
- Familiarity with security monitoring, reporting and analytics.
- Experience with scripting, automation or workflow orchestration.
- Experience protecting sensitive information in environments making use of AI technologies.
- Experience with information classification, research data protection or intellectual property protection.
- Experience in research, semiconductor, high-tech or other IP-sensitive environments.
Experience working in highly collaborative international R&D environments.
IMEC and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. IMEC will consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes submitted by vendors such as search firms, staffing agencies, professional recruiters, fee-based referral services and recruiting agencies (hereafter “Agency”) to have been referred by the Agency free of charge. IMEC will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have a prior written agreement with IMEC, validated by its HR department, in place regarding a specific job opening and allowing to submit resumes.
