PayPal Sr Manager Data Protection 

United States, Arizona, Scottsdale 

193162445

Essential Responsibilities:

• Recognized as a security expert, independently resolving the most complex security challenges and providing strategic direction on problem resolution across the security domain.
• Define methods and procedures for new or special assignments, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive security initiatives that align with business needs and objectives.
• Lead complex, high-impact security projects of diverse scope, applying an in-depth understanding of business trends and security challenges to develop innovative solutions.
• Possess a keen awareness of the broader impact of decisions, with initiatives often leading to enterprise-wide improvements that enhance security practices and operational efficiency.
• Lead a security engineering team; set clear priorities and define actionable plans, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Guide team members through complex challenges, fostering their growth and development while maintaining a focus on high-impact results.

Expected Qualifications:

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience leading others

Key Responsibilities

• Lead PayPal’s Data Protection Strategy across GCP, aligning policies, standards, and controls with global security, privacy, and compliance goals.
• Design and deliver protection solutions at scale data delivering protection solutions across cloud, on-prem, and SaaS ecosystems using industry-leading technologies for data discovery, classification, encryption, and policy enforcement, integrating DLP and governance tools to ensure consistent protection across platforms.
• Drive data discovery, tagging, and classification initiatives to ensure consistent sensitivity labeling and access enforcement.
• Establish and enhance data protection processes and governance frameworks , including policy lifecycle management, exception handling, and continuous control improvement.
• Promote data minimization through profiling, reduction, and anonymization of sensitive datasets.
• Partner cross-functionally with Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering to embed protection-by-design principles in PayPal products and platforms.
• Lead and mentor a team of cloud security and data protection professionals, fostering collaboration, accountability, and innovation.
• Drive process standardization and automation for data protection operations, from classification workflows to incident response, remediation, and audit readiness.
• Measure and report effectiveness of data protection controls and programs through KPIs, maturity assessments, and continuous improvement cycles.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to embed data protection requirements into CI/CD pipelines, service delivery models, and platform change processes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Information Security, including 5+ years in Cloud or Data Protection.
• Deep, hands-on experience with security tools , including a variety of DLP tools, Data-at-Rest scanning, data tagging, and Data Catalog .
• Proven track record of implementing data protection or DLP at enterprise scale.
• Experience with DevSecOps andInfrastructure-as-Code(Terraform, GitHub Actions).
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Additional Skills

• Strategic thinker with a hands-on technical mindset.
• Strong leadership and communication skills for cross-functional alignment.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex initiatives in a fast-paced, global environment.
• Experience implementing
  Data Protection as a Service

Our Benefits:

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