Provide Privacy advice and guidance to the business, including carrying out Data Protection Impact Assessments and Privacy by Design and Default reviews.
Support Product Teams by translating privacy requirements into technical specifications
Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to review application of privacy principles, integrate Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and embed Privacy by Design throughout product lifecycle.
Partner with Engineering and Product Teams to Support the 1LoD Privacy Team in privacy awareness initiatives, with emphasis on privacy technology trends and secure handling practices.
Support the Privacy programme’s operations and day-to-day governance activities, critical to bolster the firm’s compliance posture with applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
Assist the Privacy Team with the design and execution of controls to address privacy business requirements and mitigate privacy risks, demonstrating the appropriate accountability to execute the 1st LOD Privacy operating model in adherence to Firmwide requirements.
Ensure effective execution of privacy and data protection requirements, maintenance of privacy-related procedures and adherence to such procedures.
Support team leads in the preparation of materials for Privacy, Business and Firmwide Committees and Forums to provide transparency through reporting on business privacy risks and issues, controls.
Support the Privacy Team members and liaise with Privacy Compliance and Privacy Legal contacts, and participate in privacy workgroups, strategic projects or targeted reviews that require business engagement.
Support audit, regulatory and compliance deliverables; assist in driving specific action plans and deliverables within the Control framework.
Provide guidance and consultation to Privacy Operations to resolve privacy investigations and fulfil privacy requests.
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:
Knowledge on GDPR, UK DPA, EU AI Act, and ePrivacy with experience working in a privacy function, ideally in a 1st LoD capacity at a large financial institution or fintech.
Strong technical acumen to ability to discern and address Privacy risk in complex fintech builds/solutions.
Comfortable and experienced at working in a fast-paced, ‘agile’ environment.
Demonstrated ability in dealing with different stakeholder groups including Engineering, Product leads, Technology and Operations.
Ability to articulate and demonstrate thoughtful rationale in process and product design decisions with a geographically dispersed group of privacy, business and control professionals.
Self-starter with problem solving skills, comfortable in making logical decisions when faced with ambiguous requirements and able to work with high degree of independence.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills – ability to communicate effectively with business as well as technical stakeholders.
Attention to detail combined with the ability to think and act strategically to deliver optimal, holistic outcomes.
Intermediate level ability expected in all MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word), SharePoint, JIRA, and Confluence.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:
CIPPE, CIPT and/or CIPM privacy accreditation a plus
Knowledge of cloud architecture and familiarity with PETs