Senior Data Privacy Advisor - GDPR, AI Act & Compliance

Grant Thornton; Ireland; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton Ireland is seeking an experienced data privacy professional at Senior Consultant or Assistant Manager level to support and lead client engagements covering GDPR, the Irish Data Protection Acts, ePrivacy and adjacent regimes. You will help organisations operationalise privacy-by-design, respond to regulators, fulfil data subject rights and embed continuous privacy compliance monitoring.

You will work with Partners, Managers and our outsourced DPO team across financial services,

Qualifications

• Hands-on GDPR and DPA compliance experience in consulting, in-house DPO, regulator or law firm.
• Familiar with DPIA methodologies, SAR fulfilment, RoPA, international data transfers (SCCs, TIAs, BCRs), and breach management.
• Awareness of adjacent EU regulation: ePrivacy, NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, DSA.

Responsibilities

• Deliver GDPR and Data Protection Act compliance assessments, gap analyses and maturity reviews against recognised frameworks (ICO/DPC guidance, EDPB guidelines, ISO/IEC 27701, NIST Privacy Framework).
• Design and operate DPIA methodologies, including high-risk processing reviews and remediation tracking.
• Support SAR/Data Subject Rights processes, including verification, scoping, data discovery, review and secure delivery.
• Lead RoPA development, data mapping, and lawful basis analysis.
• Draft and review privacy notices, consent mechanisms, DPAs, SCCs and TIAs.
• Support Personal Data Breach Management including regulator notification and post-incident lessons learned.
• Contribute to outsourced DPO engagements and privacy monitoring programmes.
• Map privacy obligations to NIS2, DORA, EU AI Act, and embed in client GRC models.
• Contribute to internal methodology development, proposals and client presentations.
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Skills

GDPR compliance

DPA compliance

privacy by design

SAR handling

data mapping

cross-border transfers

regulator liaison

privacy governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

OneTrust

BigID

TrustArc

Microsoft Purview

Job description

Grant Thornton Ireland is seeking an experienced data privacy professional at Senior Consultant or Assistant Manager level to support and lead client engagements covering GDPR, the Irish Data Protection Acts, ePrivacy and adjacent regimes. You will help organisations operationalise privacy-by-design, respond to regulators, fulfil data subject rights and embed continuous privacy compliance monitoring.

You will work with Partners, Managers and our outsourced DPO team across financial services,