AVP Data Protection Engineer (L10)

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Job Description

Role Title: L10 - AVP, Data Protection Engineer

Company Overview: Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

• We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India’s Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by AmbitionBox Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.
• Synchrony celebrates ~51% women diversity, 105+ people with disabilities, and ~50 veterans and veteran family members.
• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.
• We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.
  
  

Organizational Overview

The AVP, Data Protection Engineer within the Information Security organization will be responsible for driving an enterprise-wide data discovery program to safeguard and secure the organization’s data.

Role Summary/Purpose

In this role, this individual will manage a team and be part of the Data Protection Engineering team for Information Security, working with the cyber security teams and key business stakeholders to help define data discovery strategy and roadmap and influencing teams to deliver best in class data protection service. You will be responsible for the development and implementation of data discovery classifiers to address and reduce the risk of data exfiltration.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for designing and building effective data discovery classifiers to protect and safeguard the organization's data.
• Lead and manage a team of contractors supporting data discovery efforts
• Support the Data Protection product owner defining the intent, roadmap, and strategy to ensure execution and delivery of the data protection and data discovery roadmap.
• Acting as a subject matter expert to assist with solving data protection challenges
  
  

Required Skills/Knowledge

• Serves as a data protection expert, trusted advisor, and central point of contact for IT and business stakeholders.
• Assists with the development of standards, best practices, and guidelines for the organization's policies, standards, and procedures.
• Ensures that as part of designing and building efficient cyber security capabilities these capabilities are achieving industry best practices, compliance and regulatory requirements such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA, etc.
  
  

Desired Skills/Knowledge

• Demonstrate an understanding of business needs and commitment to delivering high-quality, prompt, and efficient service to the business
• Proven strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven track record of weighing the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identifying the most appropriate one
• A team-focused mentality with proven experience to work effectively with diverse stakeholders
  
  

Eligibility Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 5 years of experience in Information Security, Engineering, Application Development, or related field OR in lieu of a degree, a High School Diploma/GED and minimum 6 years equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in data discovery
  
  

Work Timings

(This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details.)

For Internal Applicants

• Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying
• Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday
• Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)
• Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal)
• L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.
• L08+ Employees can apply
  
  

Level / Grade : 10

Job Family Group

Information Technology