Data Privacy Officer

Epiq Counsel is partnering with our financial services client to support its in-house privacy function. This near-term hybrid Data Privacy Officer role is ideal for an experienced privacy professional who enjoy hands-on privacy work and is comfortable managing complex DSARs, complaints, and operational privacy matters while also identifying opportunities to improve processes across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex, high-volume and contentious employee and customer DSARs from start to finish, including scoping, searching, review, redactions and application of exemptions.
• Handle and resolve data protection complaints, including engagement with the ICO where required.
• Support breach management and remediation, ensuring actions are appropriately tracked through to completion.
• Advise on a broad range of privacy matters, including marketing initiatives, new product launches and internal requests.
• Support privacy governance activities, including ROPAs and DPIAs.
• Identify opportunities to improve DSAR, complaints and other privacy workflows.
• Help strengthen first-line capabilities through process improvements, guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Support evolving privacy considerations relating to AI and emerging technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing complex, high-volume and contentious DSARs end to end.
• Solid experience handling data protection complaints and engaging with the ICO where needed.
• Strong working knowledge of UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Experience within financial services or banking strongly preferred.
• A recognised data privacy qualification is preferred but not essential.
• Experience improving DSAR, complaints or wider privacy processes would be advantageous.
• Comfortable balancing detailed operational work with broader strategic and process-improvement initiatives.
• Comfortable working with AI-related privacy considerations and evolving technology.
• Proactive, pragmatic and willing to take a hands-on approach to privacy matters.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.

Engagement Details

• Duration: 6 months with potential to extend
• Full-time secondment (40 hours per week)
• Hybrid schedule (2 days/week onsite in London)

Benefits

• Compensation commensurate with experience.
• We offer market beating benefits in the alternative legal services space, including: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, pension and comprehensive healthcare.
• Engagement support and coaching.

Should your experience meet the role requirements, the Epiq Counsel team will contact you. The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.

About Epiq Counsel

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful in-house legal secondment work and flexibility to credentialed lawyers and legal professionals. Our lawyers and legal professionals work on a wide variety of legal matters for top FTSE clients. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

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