TC - CS - Data Protection and Privacy - AD

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About Global Delivery Services

Global Delivery Services refers to EY's worldwide network of service delivery centers. The GDS team plays an important role in EY’s strategy by ensuring effective support to EY’s growth agenda.

Our journey started in 2002 with approximately 200 people. Today we stand at 80,000+ professionals in ten locations around the world. We operate in Argentina, China, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Client service is focused on providing Consulting, Assurance, Tax, Strategy & Transactions, and Knowledge support to our clients around the world. The teams enable account teams worldwide to provide seamless, high-quality, value-added support, helping deliver exceptional client service.

Enablement Services provides cost-effective, high-skilled, and innovative services to support EY’s global and local enablement teams. Markets, BMC, AWS, Finance and Accounting, Risk Management, Procurement, People Shared Services, IT Service Delivery and IT Global Infrastructure services, are among the services offered by Enablement Services.

Our innovation specialists serve the GDS Client Service and Enablement Services teams, along with Service Lines, Core Business Services and Sectors. The team brings the desired environment, technologies and skilled teams together for facilitation, rapid prototyping and innovative thinking. The competencies offered include analytics, digital, user experience, mobile technology, infrastructure, Microsoft technologies and open innovation.

 

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Associate Director to lead our Data Protection & Privacy practice. This is a senior leadership role for a market-facing, technically credible and commercially minded professional who can scale a high-growth cyber capability across data protection, privacy, AI data risk, Microsoft Purview, DSPM, DLP/CASB, PKI, privacy operations and managed services.

The successful candidate will help shape the next chapter of the practice as a Data Risk & AI Protection growth engine, supporting clients as they govern, protect, monitor and evidence control over sensitive data across AI, cloud, regulatory and emerging technology environments.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead the growth strategy for the Data Protection & Privacy practice across advisory, implementation and operate services.
• Build market-facing propositions across AI Data Risk Governance, DSPM and Purview for AI, Privacy Protection & Operate, PQC/Crypto Agility and sector-specific data risk solutions.
• Partner with client teams, sector leaders, alliance partners and senior stakeholders to shape pursuits, solution themes and delivery models.
• Oversee complex client engagements across privacy, data protection, DLP/CASB/DSPM, Purview, PKI, encryption, RoPA, DSR, consent, DPIA and privacy controls.
• Drive development of reusable assets, accelerators, demo environments, reference architectures and delivery playbooks.
• Build and mentor high-performing teams across privacy, data protection engineering, Microsoft Purview, PKI, DSPM and AI-enabled data protection.
• Strengthen practice quality, delivery governance, solution consistency and measurable client outcomes.

 

Skills and attributes for success

• 14+ years of experience in cyber security, data protection, privacy, data security, privacy engineering, cloud security, GRC or technology consulting.
• Proven experience leading large client programmes, practices, portfolios or globally distributed delivery teams.
• Strong understanding of data protection and privacy domains including DLP, CASB, DSPM, data discovery, classification, data governance, l