Compliance Specialist, IT​/Tech

Contract:

12 Months | Outside IR35 | UKSV Security Clearance Required

We are recruiting for an experienced Compliance & Privacy Analyst to join a highly regulated organisation operating within a complex and security-conscious environment. This is an excellent opportunity for a compliance professional who is passionate about data governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance.

You will support the development and maintenance of compliance and privacy frameworks, ensuring personal and sensitive information is handled in accordance with legal, regulatory, and business requirements. Working closely with audit, legal, risk, monitoring, and data governance teams, you will strengthen controls, manage risk, and promote a culture of compliance.

• Draft, review and maintain compliance and privacy policies, standards and procedures.
• Monitor compliance and privacy adherence across the organisation.
• Support internal and external audits and manage remediation activities.
• Collaborate with legal, risk, monitoring and data governance teams.
• Provide guidance on compliant data use within projects and initiatives.
• Support compliance and privacy training and awareness programmes.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience within a regulated environment in compliance, privacy, risk or data governance.
• Strong understanding of GDPR, data governance and privacy principles.
• Ability to translate regulatory requirements into operational controls.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as COBIT.
• Experience working with legal, data protection or risk teams.
• Knowledge of compliance tooling and privacy technology solutions.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Management or related discipline.

Due to the nature of the role you will need to have current SC Clearance