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This is an individual contributor leader role for an engineer who solves complex, cross-functional problems and turns security and privacy requirements into effective technical controls.\nYou will work with engineering, data, privacy and the business to create reusable patterns, policy-as-code, implement and automate controls, diagnose weaknesses and ensure data protection remains effective as our technology environment evolves.\nAbout the role\nIn this role, you will:\nDesign, implement and operate data discovery, classification and loss-prevention controls across CFC's stores, and record coverage in the control register. \nCreate reusable patterns for encryption, masking and secure disposal, and publish them as standards for new systems. \nImplement data-loss-prevention policy-as-code for email, endpoints and cloud stores, and record the test results for each rule change. \nDiagnose insider and data-loss incidents to root cause, implement the control to prevent recurrence, and document both in the incident report. \nPreserve and prepare digital evidence for insider, data-loss and sensitive investigations, maintaining chain of custody and applying recognised digital evidence principles. \nLead cross-functional data-protection design reviews for new products and record the decisions as standards. \nDesign technical guardrails for data handling, including generative AI tools, and publish the guardrail catalogue in the standard. \nBuild security metrics for classification coverage, loss-prevention events and encryption of sensitive stores, and publish them to data owners. \nAdvise the security function on data-protection exceptions and record each decision in the risk register. \nLead cross-functional data privacy and security design and threat-modelling activities, translating identified risks into layered, prioritised engineering improvements. \nDesign and implement automation for privacy and security policies and guardrails across workflows and endpoints, including use of AI augmentation. \nBe the technical authority on data privacy and security, advising teams on complex privacy and security architecture and right-sizing controls. \nAbout you\nYou'll likely bring:\nDeep experience designing and engineering privacy and security for a fast-moving technology forward organisation. \nExperience designing classification, loss prevention, sandboxing, monitoring, encryption, disposal and reporting controls that other teams can apply \nA record of data-loss or insider investigations closed with a control that stopped the same failure returning. \nExperience handling sensitive investigations with appropriate discretion, including evidence collection, chain of custody and close working with HR, Legal and other authorised stakeholders. \nExperience designing access and permissions for both human and non-humans to production data and addressing privacy and security weaknesses. \nAbility to create privacy and security architectures and navigate trade-offs between compliance, security, accessibility, decentralisation and performance. \nAbility to automate privacy and security controls through code, policy and workflow automation. \nStrong technical judgement and the ability to influence cross-functional teams through clear architectural reasoning. \nCore Values\nLove what you do:\nWe show up each day ready to take on the world. 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