Privacy Compliance Engineer

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.

This is a flexible role, open to candidates based anywhere in the UK or Ireland. You’ll be expected to travel to the office for onboarding and other key moments that matter 

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

Grow your career with us

• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
• Access to external training and apprenticeships

Making a Difference 

• MatchIt! Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
• Pennies from Heaven donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger

Plus plenty other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle on our RewardHub, including:

• ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
• Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover

OneAdvanced is one of the UK's largest providers of business software and services serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of £330M+. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and so much more. Our mission is to power the world of work and, as you can see, our software underpins some of the UK's most critical sectors.

We invest in our brilliant people. They are at the heart of our success as we strive to be a diverse, inclusive and engaging place to work that not only powers the world of work, but empowers the growth, ambitions and talent of our people.

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