Data Compliance & Privacy Consultant

Employment; Doha; On-site; QAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Employment seeks a Data Compliance & Privacy Consultant to translate complex regulatory obligations into practical client data controls and process requirements. You will collaborate with legal, security, governance and operational teams to assess data-sharing, retention and disposal obligations and to develop remediation trackers.

The role emphasizes practical guidance, evidence-driven compliance, and clear advisory writing while escalating unresolved legal questions to client advisers.

Qualifications

• Experience translating regulatory obligations into practical controls and processes.
• Ability to work with legal, security, IT and business stakeholders on sensitive data matters.
• Familiarity with data governance, records management and data sharing considerations.

Responsibilities

• Identify applicable legal, regulatory, policy and contractual data requirements and map them to data lifecycle stages and controls.
• Develop compliance matrices, control requirements, assessment questions and evidence requests.
• Review data-sharing agreements and processing arrangements for regulatory alignment and evidence obligations.
• Support privacy and security requirements in data architecture, analytics and integration projects.
• Facilitate workshops and communicate obligations in practical language to diverse teams.
• Prepare implementation guidance and transfer compliance knowledge to client personnel.

Skills

Regulatory interpretation

Control design

Privacy operations

Audit evidence

Risk assessment

Advisory writing

Professional scepticism

Education

Bachelor's degree in law or related field

Job description

Role Purpose

The Data Compliance & Privacy Consultant helps clients understand and implement the legal, regulatory, policy and control requirements affecting data. The role supports the translation of obligations into practical requirements for collection, classification, access, sharing, retention, analytics, security and disposal. It also helps clients establish evidence, monitoring, exception and remediation practices that demonstrate responsible handling. The consultant works closely with data governance, security, legal, risk, records, architecture and operational teams. The role may conduct assessments, draft control requirements, support privacy and sharing reviews and prepare compliance recommendations, but it does not provide final legal opinions or accept client risk. The objective is to make compliance actionable within data processes and technical delivery while ensuring unresolved legal or regulatory questions are escalated to appropriately authorised client advisers.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify legal, regulatory, policy and contractual requirements relevant to client data activities and document their operational implications. Map requirements to data lifecycle stages, business processes, systems, controls, evidence and accountable client roles.
• Support privacy, data-protection, classification, handling, access, sharing, retention and disposal assessments.
• Review data-sharing agreements, processing arrangements, notices, consent requirements and evidence obligations with authorised legal stakeholders.
• Develop compliance matrices, control requirements, assessment questions, evidence requests and remediation trackers.
• Assess control design and available evidence and clearly distinguish confirmed compliance, gaps and matters requiring legal interpretation.
• Support privacy and security requirements in architecture, analytics, integration and data-product initiatives.
• Facilitate compliance workshops and communicate obligations in practical language to business and technical teams.
• Document exceptions, residual risks, decisions and escalation needs without assuming client risk‑acceptance authority.
• Support monitoring plans, compliance reporting, corrective actions and periodic review cycles.
• Coordinate with governance, security, records, audit, system owners and external advisers as required.
• Prepare implementation guidance and transfer compliance knowledge to client personnel.

Minimum Requirements

Education

Bachelor's degree in law, information systems, cybersecurity, risk, audit or a related field. An equivalent combination of relevant education and directly applicable consulting or implementation experience may be considered.

Professional Experience

Typically 4-8 years in data protection, compliance, audit, governance or technology risk. Experience in data protection, privacy, regulatory compliance, information governance, risk or technology compliance. Experience translating obligations into controls, process requirements and evidence expectations. Experience working with legal, security, technology and business stakeholders on sensitive data matters. Exposure to government or regulated‑sector data-sharing and classification requirements is preferred.

Technical and Domain Knowledge

Privacy and data-protection principles across the data lifecycle. Data classification, handling, access, sharing, retention and disposal. Compliance mapping, controls, evidence and exception management. Data-sharing and processing-agreement requirements. Privacy and security considerations for analytics and integration. Risk assessment, remediation tracking and compliance reporting. Records and content-management compliance interfaces. Awareness of when formal legal advice or authority is required.

Core Competencies

• Regulatory interpretation, Control design, Privacy operations, Audit evidence, Risk assessment, Clear advisory writing, Professional scepticism.
• Risk awareness.
• Analysing complex obligations and expressing them as practical requirements.
• Conducting sensitive interviews and evidence reviews.
• Writing clear control language, findings and remediation actions.
• Facilitating discussions across legal, business and technical teams.
• Maintaining confidentiality, independence and an auditable evidence trail.
• Escalating uncertainty instead of presenting assumptions as legal conclusions.
• Supporting client decisions without assuming legal or risk authority.

Preferred Certifications

IAPP CIPP or CIPMCISA or CISMCDMP Associate

Focus areas

Regulatory interpretation Control design Privacy operations