Job Summary

Join us as a Data Protection Specialist, and you’ll use your skills and experience to safeguard our customer’s sensitive information through expert implementation of privacy frameworks, data governance, and compliance measures across our global banking operations
 

If you’re searching for a career with high visibility, a steep learning curve and the opportunity to change the future of a global business, you’ve found it. Join our Cyber Defence team and you’ll be given the resources you need to protect our most valuable assets – our people and our products. It’s a demanding job. Our security needs are broad, unique and constantly evolving. That’s why you’ll have the freedom to work autonomously and enjoy access to resources like cyber hub, our dedicated learning programme. Get ready to pioneer better, faster and safer ways to enhance our resilience against threats while keeping our business moving forward.

About our Technology & Operations Team 
Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential. 

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.   

Key Responsibilities

•    As a Data Protection Specialist, you’ll be responsible for Identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements, such as automating manual processes and optimising data protection solutions.
•    You’ll be working on cloud data security solutions and data protection technologies
 such as Information rights management, data discovery and classification and data loss prevention.
•    You’ll work with architects and other leads on service strategies across people, processes and technology.
•    Define roadmaps on future service and product capabilities. 

Skills and Experience

•    You’ll have a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field and some professional experience in the data protection field.
•    You’ll have experience in data privacy and protection, with demonstrated expertise in financial services regulations and privacy frameworks.
•    Strong track record of conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and managing data protection processes across large scale banking systems. 
•    Experience with PKI, CLM solutions, and privacy management platforms, combined with practical knowledge of encryption technologies.
•    Experience working with SaaS products. 

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.