Data Protection Officer (Technical Data Governance)

Tanqeeb; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanqeeb, based in Abu Dhabi, seeks an experienced data governance professional to establish and maintain data ownership, asset registers, and classification standards within a growing fintech platform. You will translate regulatory requirements into practical controls and work with engineering, data, cloud, and security teams.

The role focuses on retention, deletion, encryption considerations, and ongoing control validation to support audits and regulatory expectations across multiple

Qualifications

• Strong data governance capability across organisations.
• Experience with data protection and information security in fintech/FS.
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical technical controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Establish data ownership, asset registers and classification standards.
• Define retention, monitoring, deletion, and secure handling requirements.
• Translate regulatory needs into practical technical controls for engineering.
• Review proposed solutions for alignment with data protection requirements.
• Monitor effectiveness of governance controls and document evidence for audits.

Skills

Data governance

DPO

Job description

Job description

You will establish practical data governance and protection controls across the organisation. You would also work closely with technology teams to translate data protection requirements into clear, workable controls and assess whether proposed technical solutions meet those requirements.

Client Details

The business is a technology organisation operating in a regulated, high trust environment and works with sensitive data.

Description

Establish and maintain data ownership, data asset registers and data classification standards.Define requirements for data retention, monitoring, deletion and secure handling.Translate regulatory and data protection requirements into practical technical controls.Work with engineering, data and information security teams to agree appropriate control designs.Review proposed technical solutions and determine whether they meet the underlying requirement.Provide guidance on controls involving encryption, key management, access, retention and automated deletion.Monitor the effectiveness of data governance controls and identify areas requiring improvement.Maintain clear documentation and evidence to support regulatory, audit and customer requirements.Support the organisation in managing sensitive data across systems, platforms and jurisdictions.

Profile

Strong experience in technical data governance, data protection or information security in a Fintech or Financial Services.Practical knowledge of data ownership, asset registers, classification, retention and deletion.The ability to translate data requirements into controls that technology teams can implement.Technical understanding to review and challenge control designs proposed by engineers and system owners.Experience working closely with engineering, data, cloud or information security teams.An understanding of data protection and regulatory requirements, such as GDPR/UK GDPR, US privacy laws, Singapore PDPA, and Middle East privacy/regulatory expectations.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Relevant backgrounds may include:

• Data governance professionals with strong technical experience.
• Data engineers who have moved into governance or data controls.
• Information security professionals specialising in data protection.
• Technical data protection professionals who have worked directly with engineering teams.

Job Offer

Opportunity to build technical data governance capabilities within a growing fintech platform.Direct exposure to senior technology and security stakeholders.

Skills

DPO, Data Protection Officer