Senior Data Privacy & Governance Leader

Yello; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Yello in the United Arab Emirates seeks a senior privacy and data governance leader to design and operate the privacy program across cloud services, AI/ML workflows and product deployments.

You will partner with Tech, Information Security, Legal and Operations to embed privacy-by-design, perform DPIAs and RoPA, conduct data mapping, retention controls, and incident response, while ensuring audits and regulatory readiness.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years in data protection, privacy, information security or data governance in tech-based or fintech environments.
• IT/cybersecurity or technical data governance background is essential.
• Hands-on design and operation of privacy and data protection controls across cloud services, apps, APIs or data platforms.
• Experience delivering data mapping, RoPA, DPIAs, data subject rights, retention controls and privacy incident support.
• Practical privacy-by-design experience within cloud-native architectures and software/product development processes.
• Experience addressing data protection risks in AI/ML workflows and AI services.
• Experience in fintech or regulated environments preferred.
• Privacy qualifications (CIPP/E, CIPM, etc.) advantageous but not required.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the privacy and data governance programme, including its policies, standards, procedures, controls and operating cadence.
• Own data mapping and RoPA across cloud services, data platforms and AI/ML workflows.
• Lead DPIAs and data-related risk assessments for products and AI use cases.
• Embed privacy-by-design within technology architecture, SDLC/CI-CD and data lifecycle.
• Implement practical controls for data minimisation, access, logging, classification, retention and transparency.
• Establish and manage data subject rights operations with identity verification and audit trails.
• Support privacy incident response and breach notification activities across teams.
• Manage privacy controls for vendors, cloud providers and AI partners, including due diligence and monitoring.
• Maintain programme metrics and evidence for audits and regulatory readiness.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Data protection

Information security

Data governance

Risk assessment

DPIAs

Data mapping

Education

IT / cybersecurity degree

Tools

Cloud platforms

Data platforms

AI/ML security

Job description

Yello in the United Arab Emirates seeks a senior privacy and data governance leader to design and operate the privacy program across cloud services, AI/ML workflows and product deployments.

You will partner with Tech, Information Security, Legal and Operations to embed privacy-by-design, perform DPIAs and RoPA, conduct data mapping, retention controls, and incident response, while ensuring audits and regulatory readiness.