Senior Specialist Data Protection

JOB PURPOSE : Responsible for developing, delivering, and maintaining an enterprise level data strategy and governance program.  Execute corporate-wide enterprise digital governance activities. The job focuses on establishing and ensuring adherence to a corporate governance framework for data and technology policies, standards, and practices at all levels of ADNOC Group to achieve a required level of consistency, quality, and protection to meet overall business digital needs. Work closely with relevant teams, to ensure escalations of governance, data quality and protection issues. In addition, Senior Data Protection Specialist will also work closely with business and operational teams to improve the quality, and value of core data and digital assets and respond to regulatory protection requirements. KEY ACCOUNTBILITIES: Data Governance Design and roll out of an enterprise-wide data governance framework and program, with a special focus on improvement of data quality, security, and privacy. Establish all policy and procedural frameworks for a group level enterprise data governance and management practices. Serve as a liaison between business and operational areas and technology, to ensure that the data related business requirement for protecting sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated, and well understood, and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning. Analyse and manage resources from the business and operations areas, to achieve their objectives; and resolve issues escalated from data governance representatives for business and operational areas. Develop and maintain inventory of the enterprise information assets, including authoritative systems and owners. Assist in the facilitation of ADNOC’s existing data quality standards, data protection standards, and adoption requirement across the enterprise. Define roles & responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability of stewardship of ADNOC Group’s information assets. Define the Enterprise Architecture Information Principles. Establish the required standards for their roll out and include them in the annual assurance program. Risk Management Establish the required enterprise Risk Management Framework, assessment methodologies and practices. Support the risk champions and practice owners in the identification, assessment and reporting of the digital risks Maintain the risk registers and conduct the periodic risk reviews as required by the ERM framework. Relationship Management Develop and maintain effective business relationships with all relevant internal function, departments and external entities such as shareholders, key government authorities, service providers, vendors and other key stakeholders etc. with highest standards of business ethics, whilst promptly attending to all critical issues in-order to ensure the services required by the organisation are delivered in the most effective manner. Vendor Management Provide technical expertise and guidance to conduct market analysis on new technological developments and the adaptability of relevant developments on Data Protection within the organisation and identify relevant vendors, in order to support that technology at ADNOC stays current. Lead the provision of technical expertise in developing RFPs and RFQs relevant to Data protection; guide and advice the preparation of tendering and contractual documentation to ensure cost effective and quality services are obtained for ADNOC. Guide and participate in the negotiation of contractual terms and Service Level Agreements (SLA) ensuring protection of ADNOC’s interests and receipt of optimum level of services to facilitate IT operations. Supervision Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives. Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective business objectives. Budgets Provide input for preparation of the Function / Division / Department / Section budgets, assist in the implementation of the approved Budget, and work plans to deliver business objectives. Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control. Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures Implement approved Function/ Division/ Department/ Section policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the work programs in line with Company and International standards. Performance Management Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the Function/ Division / Department/ Section in line with the Company Performance framework. Innovation and Continuous Improvement Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes. Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with best industry standards i