Head of Data Security

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Job Summary We're seeking an experienced Data Protection Lead to develop and oversee our comprehensive data security strategy. You'll ensure regulatory compliance and safeguard our sensitive financial data and customer information 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 Data Protection Lead, you'll be responsible for identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements, automating manual processes, and optimising data protection solutions.
• Work on cloud data security solutions.
• Work on data protection technologies like Information Rights Management and Data Discovery & Classification.
• Define roadmaps on future service and product capabilities.
• Identify opportunities for continuous and automated deployment.
• Document and publish service catalogues to provide transparency on the capabilities provided by the data protection service, building an improved end user journey.
• Partner with technical teams and solution architects to analyse technical and non-technical requirements to build robust data protection solutions.

Skills and Experience

Qualifications

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.

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