The purpose of the Senior Data Privacy and Governance role is to ensure its customer’s data privacy, oversees the governance of data within the organization and meets the local and international privacy and data governance laws, regulations and requirements through globally accepted processes, technologies, governance and skillsets.

The Senior Data privacy and Governance will Report to Data protection Officer and will act as Deputy DPO

The role will support to identify, assess and manage the data privacy and governance risk exposure and ensure that necessary controls (legal, compliance, information security, data processing, information technology) are implemented to mitigate financial (fines and loss of business) and reputational risks (resulting from a failure to protect customers privacy and data privacy breaches incidents) and improve data used for decision-making.

The role is critical to ensure an appropriate, sustainable data privacy and governance strategy and internal capabilities to support current and future data privacy and governance needs.

• Act as Deputy Data protection officer as assigned by the CISO
• Execute and manage the DPIA assessments and its operational working across business , IT and Cyber security teams
• Accountable for the delivery of Privacy budget approved projects on time and quality to meet Data governance and Privacy plans
• Create and manage the Privacy controls framework , design monitoring metrics for risk and performance
• Effectively manage Data privacy and Data governance frameworks to integrate and operate under the enterprise risk framework inclusive of creation of practical Risk appetite for Privacy and Data governance
• Responsible for maintaining and seeking approvals for Roles and responsibilities Matrix of Privacy framework and Data governance framework
• Oversee by monitoring the Subsidiaries and International business compliance to laws and regulations related to Data Privacy and Data governance
• Develop and execute data privacy and data governance plan as approved by the CISO
• Estimate and manage the budget allocated for data privacy and data governance
• Plan and implement the required central data privacy controls to achieve full compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR)
• Ensure that enterprise data assets are governed by comprehensive data management approaches, governance models, frameworks, and methodologies
• Approve data privacy and data governance exception requests and recommend appropriate actions as necessary
• Assess implemented data privacy and governance controls effectiveness and compliance levels and propose mitigations and controls to address identified gaps
• Establish data quality guidelines and metrics, and regularly monitor and report on data quality issues to stakeholders.
• Assist efforts to identify, classify, and document sensitive data, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc.