Data Privacy Manager

Barclays•New York, NY

7d•$160,000 - $200,000•Onsite

About The Position

Embark on a transformative journey as a Data Privacy Manager. At Barclays, our vision is clear: to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions. This role requires an experienced person in Data Privacy who can provide leadership, oversight, and strategic direction across privacy governance, privacy risk management, and regulatory compliance activities. Partnering with senior stakeholders across business and control functions, you will drive privacy governance outcomes that support strategic decision-making, regulatory excellence, and operational effectiveness. This is a unique opportunity to influence enterprise-wide campaigns and ensure the responsible and compliant use of personal data across a global organization.

Requirements

Extensive Data Privacy experience within a regulated financial services environment, including the design, implementation, and oversight of Data Privacy governance frameworks, privacy risk management programs, and privacy regulatory compliance activities
Extensive knowledge of global privacy and data protection regulations, including the ability to interpret regulatory requirements, assess privacy impacts, and translate obligations into practical controls, governance processes, and business outcomes
Experience partnering with senior stakeholders across Business, Legal, Compliance, Risk, Technology, and Operations functions to influence strategic decisions and embed privacy-by-design principles into business processes, products, services, and transformation programs
Knowledge of Investment Banking and Markets activities

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience implementing and continuously enhancing enterprise Data Privacy frameworks, standards, policies, procedures, controls, and governance forums
Experience providing experienced guidance on the collection, use, sharing, transfer, retention, and protection of personal data throughout the data lifecycle
Solid understanding of privacy risk management, regulatory engagement, control design, issue remediation, monitoring, reporting, and governance within a global financial institution
Experience supporting business and technology change programs, ensuring privacy requirements are identified, assessed, and embedded throughout project and product lifecycles
Professional privacy qualifications or certifications (CIPP, CIPM, CIPT or equivalent) are advantageous
Risk and controls
Change and transformation
Business acumen
Strategic thinking
Digital and technology
Job-specific technical skills

Responsibilities

Partnership with the local business unit to ensure successful implementation of data & records governance frameworks as appropriate to the needs of the business unit.
Provision of guidance and support on records classification, retention, storage, retrieval and disposal to business units.
Monitoring local data quality and records metrics and identify areas for improvement.
Identification of opportunities for data improvement and optimisation.
Partnership with the relevant business unit to support their data priorities and ensure appropriate decisions related to data & records are embedded in their BAU decision making and change programs.
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change.
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes.
They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives.
In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right.
They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
Provide leadership, oversight, and strategic direction across privacy governance, privacy risk management, and regulatory compliance activities.
Drive privacy governance outcomes that support strategic decision-making, regulatory excellence, and operational effectiveness.
Influence enterprise-wide campaigns and ensure the responsible and compliant use of personal data across a global organization.
Guiding and overseeing privacy risk assessments, privacy impact assessments, privacy-by-design reviews, privacy notices, lawful basis assessments, data sharing arrangements, data retention considerations, and remediation activities relating to privacy compliance obligations.
Assess privacy implications arising from new products, technologies, data uses, strategic programs, third-party relationships, and regulatory developments while balancing commercial targets and risk management requirements.
Implementing and continuously enhancing enterprise Data Privacy frameworks, standards, policies, procedures, controls, and governance forums.
Providing experienced guidance on the collection, use, sharing, transfer, retention, and protection of personal data throughout the data lifecycle.
Supporting business and technology change programs, ensuring privacy requirements are identified, assessed, and embedded throughout project and product lifecycles.