Privacy Compliance Engineer

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About the Role

📣The successful candidate will play a critical role within our Legal & Compliance team, helping to improve and maintain our Privacy by Design and by Default programme, serving as the technical bridge between Legal & Compliance and Security teams by translating privacy by design principles into implementable privacy by default controls and specifications. This role requires a strong understanding of global privacy laws along with privacy technical skills.

You will be part of the wider Legal & Compliance team, working closely with Legal & Compliance and R&D teams, and you will report to our Legal Director – Privacy, Cyber & AI.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Improve and maintain our Privacy by Design and by Default programme
• Conducting regular privacy impact assessments (PIAs) of operational processes, identifying, and mitigating risks across the company through effective tools, training and guidance.
• Work cross functionally with data protection, legal, cyber security, product and engineering (R&D) teams to align advanced technologies and Privacy by Design principles from the first stages of development and ensure that the data use meets established regulatory compliance needs.
• Guide and drive the development of new privacy products, features and tools.
• Respond to privacy incidents by conducting analysis and implementing remediation.
• Maintain detailed documentation and data lifecycle management.
• Keep up to date with global privacy regulations.
• Use and implement data anonymisation, pseudonymisation and encryption protocols/techniques to develop systems that preserve and improve privacy protections.
• Communicate program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to key stakeholders.
• Optimise key privacy controls.
• Creating KPIs to measure privacy by design programme effectiveness.
• Developing technical privacy training for product and engineering teams.

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Knowledge and

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to balance risks in ambiguous and complex situations.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills, in particular in leading or contributing to global and multi-functional teams.
• Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).
• Experience conducting PIAs and with PIAs methodologies.
• Knowledge of privacy challenges in machine learning/AI.
• Experience or understanding of software applications design tools and languages.
• Understanding of design for software applications running on multiple platforms.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of software engineering fundamentals.
• Data literacy: finding and managing data, cleansing data, manipulating data.
• Ability to perform operations involving large datasets.
• Ability to champion privacy within technical discussions.
• Skill in explaining technical privacy concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, privacy engineering or related field of study.
• CIPT certification, preferably.
• Strong software and AI development skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to effectively communicate designs, proposals, and results; and negotiate options at management levels.
• 5 years' experience in privacy / data protection or a graduate degree or concentration in privacy by design engineering.

Wellbeing that means something

• 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year
• Exceptional family leave
  , 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, plus 5 days paid bereavement leave
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Private medical insurance for everyone
  , no medical-history exclusions

Financial benefits that have your back

• Performance-based rewards tailored to your role
  , from company-wide bonuses to OTE and commission structures
• Income protection
  : up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it

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