Senior Data Protection & Cyber Resilience Consultant

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions; Ottawa; Híbrido; CAD 83.000 - 152.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

LeverageTek Staffing Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Protection & Cyber Resilience Consultant for a 12-month contract, based at a client site in Ottawa with two days per week on-site at the customer headquarters in Ottawa/Toronto.

The role drives data protection governance, lifecycle management and automated retention across multiple streams, coordinating with technology, security, legal, risk and business teams to implement remediation plans and data-flow inventories.

Formación

• Experience leading data protection assessments, governance initiatives and lifecycle management in complex environments.
• Hands-on experience identifying, classifying and documenting enterprise data across multiple applications.
• Ability to lead multiple workstreams, engage stakeholders, and drive adoption of data protection practices.

Responsabilidades

• Lead four workstreams: data protection and retention assessment, data discovery and classification, data-flow inventory, and automated data retention.
• Assess protection and retention practices; design controls and remediation backlog.
• Lead enterprise data discovery initiatives, define methodologies and evaluate discovery capabilities.
• Map data flows, dependencies and lifecycles; maintain accurate inventory.
• Support automated retention/disposal rollout including policy-as-code and reporting.
• Drive engagement across technology, security, legal, risk and business teams.

Conocimientos

Data protection

Cyber resilience

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Herramientas

ServiceNow

Google Workspace data classification

DLP

data discovery and classification platforms

Descripción del empleo

LeverageTek is actively seeking a Senior Data Protection & Cyber Resilience Consultant for a 12-month contract with its Ottawa-based customer.

Work Location

The successful candidate will be required to work 2 days per week on-site at the customer headquarters in Ottawa/Toronto

Clearance:

Enhanced Eligible

Key Tasks

• Lead and coordinate four interconnected workstreams: data protection and retention assessment, risk-based data discovery and classification, enterprise data-flow and lifecycle inventory, and automated data retention
• Assess existing data protection and retention practices, including control design and operating effectiveness, and develop a structured remediation backlog
• Lead enterprise data discovery and classification initiatives, define discovery methodologies, and evaluate and deploy discovery capabilities
• Map internal and external data flows, dependencies and lifecycle stages, and establish processes to keep the inventory accurate
• Support the development and rollout of automated data retention and disposal, including retention-policy-as-code, exception management and reporting
• Drive stakeholder engagement and change management across technology, infrastructure, security, legal, risk and business teams

Key Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading data protection assessments, data governance initiatives, information lifecycle management and retention policies in complex organizations
• Hands-on experience identifying, classifying and documenting enterprise data across multiple applications and systems, including data-flow mapping
• Ability to independently lead multiple workstreams, develop delivery plans, engage technical and business stakeholders, and drive adoption of new data protection practices

Qualifications

• Experience within financial services, banking, payments, government or other highly regulated environments
• Exposure to ServiceNow, Google Workspace data classification and labelling, DLP, and data discovery and classification platforms
• Experience developing or implementing policy-as-code or automated retention enforcement solutions
• Familiarity with cybersecurity audit frameworks, BCDR, risk management and third-party vendor oversight
• Experience with Enterprise Data Warehouse environments, data lineage documentation and critical asset mapping
• Relevant certifications in data governance, information security, cybersecurity, privacy or enterprise architecture
• Eligibility for Enhanced Reliability / Level 2 security clearance (final requirement to be confirmed)

Compensation

Hourly Rate Negotiable This is an existing position vacancy.

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