Senior Associate, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Ankura’s Data Privacy Practice offers a full-service suite of data privacy solutions for clients, regardless of industry or size. Our experts assess data privacy risk and readiness relative to existing and emerging privacy regulations and help organizations build and mature their privacy programs.

Our Privacy practice is a rapidly growing part of the Digital segment of our business. The Director will help our clients address their data privacy challenges, including assisting organizations through privacy related regulatory investigations, conducting privacy risk assessments, creating policies and procedures, building and mature their privacy programs.

We are seeking a skilled systems architect to design and implement robust automation and integrations solutions to join the Data Privacy team. This role will conduct in-depth analyses of network traffic and employ advanced network scanning tools. You will conduct thorough assessments of clients’ ad tech practices to identify privacy compliance gaps, implement changes to ensure compliance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate privacy compliance into product development and marketing.

You will also develop and implement methodologies to guide clients in applying data protection by design principles throughout the software development lifecycle and advise on consent models for tracking technologies on websites and mobile apps.

This role is remote based in the United States.

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of clients’ current ad tech practices and identify compliance gaps related to privacy regulations.

• Implement changes in various Ad Tech technologies to operationalize compliance strategy.

• Develop and deploy methodologies on integrating data protection by design principles to the SDLC, including requirements, elicitation, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing administration and maintenance.

• Develop and deploy methodologies to advise clients on applying consent models to cookies, pixels, beacons, and other tracking technologies for websites and mobile applications.

• Develop and deploy website scanning strategies and technologies; recommend and implement technical measures to support compliance with consent and preference management obligations.

• Support delivery of engagements related to Privacy Technology implementations, integrations, and configurations; privacy by design;
  Software / Solution Development Lifecycle (SDLC) integration; privacy source code analysis; website and application compliance; and Privacy Technology training and adoption.

• Design and develop robust API/system integrations utilizing cutting‑edge privacy tools, acting as a key system architect.

• Monitor and troubleshoot integration issues, ensuring system reliability and performance.

• Assist with in-depth analyses of network traffic and employ advanced network scanning tools.

• Create documentation identifying data flows between various systems and technologies.

• Support activities of engagements including interaction with other team members, subject matter experts, external counsel, and client contacts.

• Create project status summaries, reports, metrics, written analyses, assessments, and other presentations of work performed.

• Create and update policies and procedures to support compliance with various regulations.

• Actively participate in and lead internal and external team meetings including client assessments, presentations, and status meetings.

• Manage time and tasks to meet internal and external deadlines.

• Develop standardized metrics, methodologies, and other work products to be delivered by client project teams.

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