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Senior Data Privacy Manager

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Date live: Jun. 27, 2024

Business Area: COO & Functions

Area of Expertise: Operations

Reference Code: 90392518

Contract: Permanent

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Senior Data Privacy Manager
Glasgow

As a Barclays Senior Data Privacy Manager, you will be responsible for providing senior Data Privacy advisory support across the Chief Operating Office & Functions, serving as a Senior Data Privacy Subject Matter Expert, leading a team of Data Privacy Advisors supporting Barclays Business’ and accountable Business Senior Managers. Moreover, you will be providing input into, as appropriate, conformance, assurance, and reviews from the perspective of Data Privacy within the Businesses, such as verification checks or monitoring reviews.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?

• Serving as a Senior Data Privacy SME (Subject Matter Expert), leading a team of Data Privacy Advisors supporting Barclays Business’ and accountable Business Senior Managers
• Taking responsibility for acting as escalation point for complex privacy queries and lead a team of Data Privacy SMEs
• Being responsible for building and maintaining key stakeholder relationships and work closely with the Head of BX Data Privacy and Data Privacy leads in each Business vertical
• Driving the development of training to upskill DP functional leads in verticals, to upskill the wider BX population ensuring awareness of data privacy issues, themes, and risks
• Responding to ad hoc and critical Data Privacy control and governance requests and working on projects and initiatives to ensure that an appropriate control lens is provided
• Providing input into or measure conformance, assurance, and reviews from the perspective of Data Privacy, such as verification checks or monitoring reviews

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience of advising and/or managing Data Privacy issues
• Excellent technical and regulatory knowledge in the areas of Data Privacy
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving business environment and make decisions bearing in mind business objectives and commercial requirements
• Previous experience with conformance testing, reviews, and assurance

Skills that will help you in the role

• Certifications in one or more of the following disciplines: data privacy, legal, compliance information risk or information technology would be useful
• Professional Privacy Certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (e.g., CIPP /E) or equivalent is preferred

Where will you be working?

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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More about working at Barclays

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