Head of Data Privacy, Record Management and Data Regulatory Compliance

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Salary / Rate Minimum: $215,000

Salary / Rate Maximum: $280,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the Role

To lead and integrate the strategic and operational delivery across existing data privacy, records management, and regulatory exam data teams for the Investment Bank (IB), ensuring alignment with legal, regulatory, and business requirements.

The role acts as a senior lead and control owner across these domains, embedding governance, risk, and control frameworks that support sustainable and compliant data practices, driving transformation of the function through a data led, technology enabled approach.

Provide regional leadership for the IB CDAO within the US region, ensuring alignment with global and regional objectives, regulatory requirements, and business priorities, acting as the primary point of contact for regional stakeholders and representing the function in cross-business forums.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead and integrate IB-wide data privacy, records management, and data related regulatory exams driving strategic transformation of the capabilities and operational control, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and business requirements.
• Act as senior control owner for data privacy, regulatory exam data dictionary, and records management, embedding strong governance, risk, and control frameworks.
• Oversee all data privacy activities, including DPIAs, RoPAs, privacy control reviews, and maintenance of privacy notices.
• Govern classification, retention, storage, and disposal of records in line with Group Data & Records policies.
• Drive transformation of the function through data-led, technology AI-enabled approaches aligned to industry best practice.
  
  

Key Requirements

• Evidencable knowledge and skills in Financial Services, specifically Investment Banking
• Successful track record of implementing data management strategy and framework in an automated, technology led environment
• Excellent understanding of data, records and privacy management tooling, architecture, and application into financial services.
• Strong stakeholder influencing and communication skills.
• Leadership and delivery within a global, matrix delivery environment.
  
  

Purpose of the role

To develop and implement data privacy policies, procedures and monitoring the adherence to these policies across the organisation.

Accountabilities

• Identification and assessment of potential risks related to data privacy and implement measures to mitigate these risks and enhance overall data protection.
• Development and implementation of an effective incident response plan for data breaches and coordinating with relevant teams to investigate and address incidents promptly.
• Provision of data privacy training and awareness to employees by educating employees about their data privacy obligations, how to manage personal data securely, and how to identify and report data privacy breaches.
• Identification of areas for improvement and implementation of enhancements to the data privacy programme.
• Development and implementation of data privacy policies, procedures and monitoring the adherence to these policies across the organisation.
• Development and implementation of Barclays Data Privacy strategy aligned with the bank's business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Definition and enforcement of data privacy policies and procedures to ensure data protection, security, and compliance.
• Partnering with stakeholders to drive improvements in the understanding, appropriate use and protection of personal data.
• Development and maintenance of a comprehensive data privacy governance framework aligned with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
  
  

Director Expectations

• To manage a business function, providing significant input to function wide strategic initiatives. Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function and plan, manage and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects, which may be business wide..
• They manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture aligned to the values of the business. Or for an individual contributor, they lead organisation wide projects and act as deep technical expert and thought leader, identifying new ways of working and collaborating cross functionally. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
• Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
• Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
• Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
• Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
• Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
• Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
• Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
• Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
• Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
• Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.
  
  

All Senior 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. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.

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.