Technical Lead - Data Privacy

The Technical Lead role focuses on designing and implementing secure and privacy-centric solutions utilizing data privacy foundations and REST API integrations with OneTrust. This position demands seven to ten years of experience in technology delivery within essential industry domains, ensuring compliant data handling and sustainable digital products. The work entails day shifts without travel requirements and is based in the Riyadh Region, in a hybrid, full-time work setting.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement privacy-aware technical solutions that leverage data privacy foundations and REST API integrations with OneTrust.
• Oversee end-to-end technical delivery for privacy-centric applications, ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal standards.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to transform complex privacy and consent management requirements into scalable system designs.
• Develop reusable REST API patterns and integration components for data classification and consent management.
• Review technical designs and code to align with privacy by design principles.
• Guide teams in error handling, monitoring, and alerting around privacy-related services.
• Optimize service performance and reliability for privacy components.
• Collaborate with product owners to define technical acceptance criteria that integrate privacy controls.
• Document solution designs and integration patterns clearly for engineering and risk teams.
• Provide technical guidance on secure coding and privacy enforcement practices.
• Participate in incident reviews and root cause analysis to improve design and operational practices.
• Engage in knowledge sharing sessions to keep teams updated on privacy technologies and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Seven to ten years of experience in designing and delivering enterprise applications, with a minimum of three years focused on privacy-centric or security-sensitive systems.
• Strong experience with data privacy foundation concepts such as consent lifecycle, data minimization, and retention strategies.
• Proven expertise in building and consuming REST APIs, including authentication frameworks and performance optimization.
• Practical experience with OneTrust modules such as consent management and data subject request workflows.
• Understanding of industry essentials and the ability to apply privacy and security controls in business processes.
• Experience in hybrid work environments and using collaboration tools is a plus.
• Background in automating privacy checks in continuous integration pipelines is desirable.

Certifications Required:

• Certified OneTrust Professional or equivalent privacy technology certification preferred.
• General data protection or privacy certification such as CIPP or CIPM is a plus.

Feel free to apply if your experience aligns with the requirements!