Data Privacy and Information Protection Specialist

4 days ago

Pretoria, South Africa Kamo Placements Full time

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
- Interpret and assess data security requirements with business, legal services and system owners to ensure the adoption of appropriate protection and controls to secure the Banks data assets.
- Evaluate, Implement, test and configure fit for purpose technical solutions in accordance with data security requirements and to ensure privacy policies are correctly implemented.
- Define compliance use cases and measures against compliance requirements to evaluate and reduce the risk associated with information throughout its lifecycle.
- Develop appropriate response use cases for an effective response plan that meets the business use case.
- Provide input into data solution architectures to ensure conformance to privacy governance frameworks in support of the Enterprise Architecture division.
- Responsible for assisting with management of data privacy, data protection, performance, and integrity of the privacy solutions.
- Implement and monitor appropriate data loss prevention, detection, and masking capabilities in conformance to approved data classification schemas.
- Drive the adoption and implementation of data minimisation techniques to improve on data collection and appropriate privacy categorisation identification.
- Assess, define, and implement monitoring requirements appropriate to the system, to capture and report on identified and potential data breaches.
- Identify and manage data privacy risks by exposing data vulnerabilities and including prioritised remediation recommendations in accordance with the Banks risk management practices and Internal and External audit recommendations.
- Identify areas of improvement in local practices relative to managing data privacy.
Define own work plan and deliverables with guidance from the Manager: Data Privacy & Information Protection and prioritise delivery of own outputs against the agreed work plan.

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**
- a Bachelors degree (NQF 7) in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification including technology specific certifications; and
- a minimum of 5 to 8 years experience in privacy / data protection

The following would be an added advantage:

- CIPT - Certified Information Privacy Technologist certification
- CDPSE Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer certification
- CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional certification

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