Job Description

This role is with a reputable Savings, Investments/ISAs and Life company, and they're looking for a Data Protection Specialist to join their small Risk & Compliance function. Some details (full job spec available for suitable applicants): Part of a small team, reporting directly to the Head of. Looking for good knowledge of the relevant Data Protection & Privacy Regulations. Able to translate DP regulations into business language for senior stakeholders and the wider business. Ideally with some Financial Services experience, but this isn’t mandatory. As a smaller firm, our client provides the opportunity to get involved with senior stakeholders and across a broad range of areas. It’d really suit someone who would like a smaller company culture. Role would be 2 days/week in Glasgow city centre offices, with 3 being working from home. If you’d like to find out more and have the right type of experience, please get in touch.

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Required Knowledge

• K0004   Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• K0006   Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
• K0020   Knowledge of data administration and data standardization policies.
• K0021   Knowledge of data backup and recovery.
• K0022   Knowledge of data mining and data warehousing principles.
• K0023   Knowledge of database management systems, query languages, table relationships, and views.
• K0260   Knowledge of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data security standards.
• K0261   Knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.
• K0277   Knowledge of current and emerging data encryption (e.g., Column and Tablespace Encryption, file and disk encryption) security features in databases (e.g. built-in cryptographic key management features).
• K0278   Knowledge of current and emerging data remediation security features in databases.
• K0095   Knowledge of the capabilities and functionality associated with various technologies for organizing and managing information (e.g., databases, bookmarking engines).
• K0193   Knowledge of advanced data remediation security features in databases.

Required Skills

• S0002   Skill in allocating storage capacity in the design of data management systems.
• S0042   Skill in maintaining databases. (i.e., backup, restore, delete data, transaction log files, etc.).
• S0045   Skill in optimizing database performance.
• S0089   Skill in one-way hash functions (e.g., Secure Hash Algorithm [SHA], Message Digest Algorithm [MD5]).
• S0106   Skill in data pre-processing (e.g., imputation, dimensionality reduction, normalization, transformation, extraction, filtering, smoothing).

Required Abilities

• A0176  Ability to maintain databases. (i.e., backup, restore, delete data, transaction log files, etc.).
• A0029  Ability to build complex data structures and high-level programming languages.