Data Protection Officer

Summary

Join CloudWalk, a rapidly growing fintech company, as their Data Protection Officer (DPO). You will be responsible for overseeing CloudWalk's data protection strategy and ensuring compliance with regulations like LGPD, GDPR, and CCPA. This role involves acting as the primary point of contact for data protection issues, maintaining DPIA, advising on data protection obligations, promoting a culture of compliance, and conducting regular assessments and audits. You will need extensive technical knowledge of data protection regulations, privacy standards, and best practices, along with strong communication and leadership skills. CloudWalk offers a fully remote and distributed team environment.

Requirements

• A can-do, product and customer focused attitude
• Extensive technical knowledge and experience of data protection regulation, privacy standards, and best practices
• Track record of innovation by leveraging technology to achieve LGPD or GDPR compliance
• Great technical skills, including hands-on experience with cloud environments
• Banking, Fintech, or Payments industry background
• Outstanding communication skills
• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities
• Knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL
• Application of artificial intelligence in privacy projects
• Experience in international projects - American regulation

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact within CloudWalk, regulators, and any relevant public bodies on issues related to data protection
• Ensure CloudWalk’s policy is in accordance with LGPD (Brazil), GDPR (Europe) and California Consumer Privacy Act
• Maintain the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)
• Inform and advise the controller or the processor of data of their Data Protection obligations, including training, education and awareness of CloudWalk staff
• Promote a culture of data protection compliance across all CloudWalk teams
• Conduct regular assessments and audits to ensure Data Protection compliance
• Evaluate governance reports (LIA, DPIA, RoPA, Incident Response Plan and Privacy by design) in order to identify opportunities for improvement, proposing concrete risk mitigation actions
• Maintain records of all data processing activities carried out by the company

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in building digital financial products

Benefits

As a member of a fully remote and distributed team, you are expected to complete tasks autonomously, being highly collaborative and self-driven