172 Data Protection jobs in the United Arab Emirates

About Revolut
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 60+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work. So far, we have 10,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About The Role
Compliance is a key team that ensures Revolut's products and processes meet the regulatory requirements and translate this into the best customer outcomes. They've got an outstanding ability to find solutions and carry out testing in a purely digital environment. Those data-driven experts know that better people and machines are the most effective way of managing conduct risk.

We're looking for an experienced Data Protection Officer who can help us in setting, delivering, and embedding Revolut's data protection and privacy strategy in the UAE.

Someone who's excited to work in a fast-paced environment, advancing the adoption of our group policy, procedures, risk, and control frameworks across the company.

If joining a global fintech with an ever-increasing portfolio of innovative features seems interesting to you, let's get in touch.

What You'll Be Doing

• Setting Revolut UAE's data protection and privacy strategy through the design of policies, procedures, and standardised risks and controls, and overseeing their implementation
• Overseeing 1LoD's management of data protection, privacy risks, and controls
• Delivering training programmes to embed and enhance data protection and privacy awareness throughout the organisation
• Reporting to Revolut UAE's Head of Compliance, executive committee, and Board Risk and Compliance Committee on the effectiveness of the data protection and privacy programme
• Monitoring the handling of data subject rights requests by Revolut's central DPO support team
• Liaising with the group's DPO team on broader data protection initiatives and frameworks
• Liaising with key internal (Legal, Risk, etc.) and external (UAE regulators, advisors, vendors, partners, etc.) stakeholders as required

What You'll Need

• Experience as a Data Protection Officer, with demonstrable experience in UAE data protection laws, regulations, rules, and guidance
• A track record of successfully engaging with UAE regulators
• Knowledge and experience of regulatory requirements relating to data protection and privacy
• The ability to work well under pressure, manage multiple projects at once with close attention to detail, and meet tight deadlines
• An understanding of the interplay between compliance risk and business risk
• A solution-oriented mindset for complex privacy and data protection problems
• The ability to communicate positively with members of various internal teams and regulators
• Demonstrated sound judgement
• Solid analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills
• The ability to provide clear and concise advice promptly in ambiguous situations

Nice to have

• Additional privacy and data protection qualifications
• Experience in coding (SQL, Python, Java)
• Previous experience advising in fintech and payments
• Experience advising on innovative, customer-oriented features
• Experience working on regulatory investigations and dealing with breach investigations
• Knowledge of international data transfer requirements, restrictions, and solutions
• Experience in compliance risk management within a consultancy, compliance function, or regulator

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Role: Data Protection Officer
Location: Abu Dhabi

Role Purpose:
Reporting directly to the Senior Management of the relevant department, the Data Protection Officer (DPO) responsibilities include advising on Bank's compliance with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and local data protection laws, monitoring Bank's adherence to GDPR standards and acting as a point of contact with supervisory authorities in all relevant jurisdictions and data subjects. 

The DPO will also create policies that enforce compliance with relevant legislation and deliver ongoing data protection training to the Bank's employees to meet required standards and to continually increase awareness of data protection measures across the group.

Key Accountabilities of the role
1. Act as point of contact with relevant staff and internal teams, as well as supervisory authorities in all relevant jurisdictions  to ensure that the Bank's data protection requirements are understood and adopted within appropriate timeframes

1. Identify, evaluate and enable the ongoing effectiveness of the Bank's data processing activities

2. Provide advice and instructions on how to conduct Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs)

3. Monitor data management procedures and compliance within the Bank

4. Participate in meetings with managers to ensure privacy by design at all levels

5. Maintain records of data processing operations

6. Ensure the Bank addresses all queries from data subjects within legal timeframes (e.g. delete their information from the Bank's databases)

7. Liaise with other organisations/vendors who process data on behalf of the Bank

8. Write and update detailed guides on data protection policies

9. Perform audits and determine whether the Bank needs to alter its policies and procedures to comply with new regulations

10. Offer consultation and advice on how to deal with privacy breaches

11. Deliver training on data protection compliance to all Bank employees (e.g. GDPR, local data protection regulation)

12. Follow up with changes in the law and regulations and issue recommendations to ensure compliance

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:
 

• High and demonstrable knowledgeable in data protection rules and regulations in developed markets
• Special expertise in data protection role capable of advising senior management, obtained in a regional or global institution
• An ability to understand, create and run processes on data protection across the entire ADIB Group Companies
• Abilities to read and understand laws, rules and regulations on data protection
• Strong analytical skills, problem solving, consulting and report writing
• Good presentation skills, training delivery and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Project management and delivery skills

Previous relevant experience:

• 10-12 years' experience working for regional or global company in data protection position
• Any of above experience obtained whilst working in a similar role for a financial institution would be a distinctive advantage

Job Purpose
To assist with Data Privacy Program and Implementation by co-ordinating with relevant stakeholders to fulfil regulatory requirements, in particular those of UAE' Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) and related CBUAE Regulations

Essential
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Experience of atleast around 1 year of Data Protection law implementations and not more than 3 years
• Completion of CIPPE/E from

Desirable

• Degree in Law
• Ability to draft relevant data protection clauses in Legal agreements

Other Requirements

• Competent communicator strong in both verbally and written means of communication
• Ability to deeply listen and understand goals and challenges of stakeholders
• Problem solving skills
• Collaboration skills
• Needs to be able deliver impact and deliverables within specified timeframes

Job Context

• Undertake implementation as per instructions of the Data Privacy Managers and the appointed Consulting Organizations, if any
• Fulfil legal requirement relating to Processors, Cross Border Data transfer, Register of Processing activities
• Define procedures and template and assist with the adoption of the same
• Co-ordinate with relevant Stakeholders to sustainably embed Data Privacy practices
• Assist in the performance of Data Protetcion Impact Assessments

About the role:
Manage and maintenance of backup infrastructure. Setup, configure and manage backup, monitor daily backup, Scheduling backup.

Key Responsibilities
:

• Setup, configure and manage Backup server/client and tape libraries.
• Monitor daily Backup activity and reporting to proactively avoid issues
• Modify and optimize backup schedules
• Improve automation and productivity of backups through scripting enhancements
• Troubleshoot and resolve the failed backups
• Should be familiar on any restoration (File system, Database & Snapshot)
• Interface with vendors for escalation of issues
• Configure, monitor, and support daily backup software, such as Acronis and Azure Site Backups
• Independently performs fail over and failback testing of entire VM's in a Disaster Recovery environment as required
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complications while performing testing or failovers
• Monitors and maintains global backup cloud environments
• Knowledge of Data backup and recovery with Acronis and Azure Cloud Backups or similar enterprise level software
• Hands on experience on different types of jobs on Commvault backup

To qualify, you must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• ITIL v4 (or v3) foundation certification
• Certification from Backup and Storage vendors such as Rubrik, Dell-EMC, HP, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam Networker. etc,
• At least 8 to 10 years of Data Protection Platform relevant experience.
• Working experience in Public/Private/Hybrid Multi-Cloud: AWS, Azure Native Back-Ups, GCP, Oracle and VMware
• Understanding of cloud computing architecture, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS delivery models
• Strong passion for the Cloud World and concepts.
• Knowledge of Storage technologies such as Dell-EMC, Cohesity, HP & Pure Technologies
• Experience in installing/configuring/troubleshooting Backup technologies such as Dell, Commvault & Cohesity Technologies
• Excellent knowledge on SAN / NAS / FC Switches / Backup Appliances /Tape Libraries
• Knowledge of migration tools, snapshots and SAN protocols such as CIFS, NFS, Iscsi and fiber channel
• Knowledge of Data Migration, Replication, Switch Zoning & Fabric merging
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Knowledge of networking principles, Hypervisors, Linux, and Windows operating environments
• Knowledge of security hardening and system performance tuning

Halian Group
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With over 28 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers.

Our resourcing and smart services help you to realize tomorrow's potential. Discover the amazing things possible when you bring the right people and the right technologies together.

At Halian, we recognize that diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are essential to building high-performing teams for our clients. We are committed to connecting organizations with top talent from all backgrounds, ensuring that every individual feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, gender, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them unique. By fostering diverse and inclusive workplaces, we help our clients drive innovation, enhance collaboration, and better reflect the communities they serve.

Engineer – Data Protection in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Client is looking for Data Protection Co-ordinator based in AbuDhabi, UAE with one of our direct client.

Essential

• Experience of atleast around 1 year of Data Protection law implementations and not more than 3 years
• Completion of CIPPE/E from

Desirable

• Degree in Law
• Ability to draft relevant data protection clauses in Legal agreements

Other requirements

• Competent communicator strong in both verbally and written means of communication
• Ability to deeply listen and understand goals and challenges of stakeholders
• Problem solving skills
• Collaboration skills

Needs to be able deliver impact and deliverables within specified timeframes

JOB PURPOSE:

To assist with Data Privacy Program and Implementation by co-ordinating with relevant stakeholders to fulfil regulatory requirements, in particular those of UAE' Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) and related CBUAE Regulations

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Essential

• Experience of atleast around 1 year of Data Protection law implementations and not more than 3 years
• Completion of CIPPE/E from

Desirable

• Degree in Law
• Ability to draft relevant data protection clauses in Legal agreements

Other requirements

• Competent communicator strong in both verbally and written means of communication
• Ability to deeply listen and understand goals and challenges of stakeholders
• Problem solving skills
• Collaboration skills
• Needs to be able deliver impact and deliverables within specified timeframes

Job Context

• Undertake implementation as per instructions of the Data Privacy Managers and the appointed Consulting Organizations, if any
• Fulfil legal requirement relating to Processors, Cross Border Data transfer, Register of Processing activities
• Define procedures and template and assist with the adoption of the same
• Co-ordinate with relevant Stakeholders to sustainably embed Data Privacy practices
• Assist in the performance of Data Protetcion Impact Assessments

Client is looking for Data Protection Co-ordinator based in AbuDhabi, UAE with one of our direct client.

• Experience of at least around 1 year of Data Protection law implementations and not more than 3 years
• Completion of CIPPE/E from IAPP.org
• Degree in Law
• Ability to draft relevant data protection clauses in Legal agreements

Other requirements

• Competent communicator strong in both verbally and written means of communication
• Ability to deeply listen and understand goals and challenges of stakeholders

Needs to be able deliver impact and deliverables within specified timeframes

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Experience required: 8+ Years

Duration: 6 Months & Extendable

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
• Certification from Backup and Storage vendors such as Rubrik, Dell-EMC, HP, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam Networker, etc.
• At least 8 to 10 years of Data Protection Platform relevant experience.
• Working experience in Public/Private/Hybrid Multi-Cloud: AWS, Azure Native Back-Ups, GCP, Oracle and VMware.
• Understanding of cloud computing architecture, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS delivery models.
• Strong passion for the Cloud World and concepts.
• Knowledge of Storage technologies such as Dell-EMC, Cohesity, HP & Pure Technologies.
• Experience in installing/configuring/troubleshooting Backup technologies such as Dell, Commvault & Cohesity Technologies.
• Excellent knowledge on SAN / NAS / FC Switches / Backup Appliances /Tape Libraries.
• Knowledge of migration tools, snapshots and SAN protocols such as CIFS, NFS, Iscsi and fiber channel.
• Knowledge of Data Migration, Replication, Switch Zoning & Fabric merging.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Knowledge of networking principles, Hypervisors, Linux, and Windows operating environments.
• Knowledge of security hardening and system performance tuning.
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Engineer – Data Protection (m/f/d) at Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing. Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

• Setup, configure and manage Backup server/client and tape libraries.
• Monitor daily backup activity and reporting to proactively avoid issues.
• Modify and optimize backup schedules.
• Improve automation and productivity of backups through scripting enhancements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve failed backups.
• Familiar with restorations (File system, Database & Snapshot).
• Interface with vendors for escalation of issues.
• Configure, monitor, and support daily backup software (e.g., Acronis, Azure Site Backups).
• Independently perform failover and failback testing of entire VMs in a Disaster Recovery environment as required.
• Troubleshoot during testing or failovers.
• Monitor and maintain global backup cloud environments.
• Knowledge of data backup and recovery with Acronis and Azure Cloud Backups or similar enterprise software.
• Hands-on experience with various jobs on Commvault backup.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• ITIL v4 (or v3) foundation certification.
• Certification from Backup and Storage vendors (e.g., Rubrik, Dell-EMC, HP, Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam).
• At least 8 to 10 years of Data Protection Platform experience.
• Experience in Public/Private/Hybrid Multi-Cloud: AWS, Azure Native Backups, GCP, Oracle and VMware.
• Understanding of cloud computing IaaS, PaaS and SaaS delivery models.
• Knowledge of storage technologies (Dell-EMC, Cohesity, HP, Pure).
• Experience installing/configuring/troubleshooting backup technologies (Dell, Commvault, Cohesity).
• Knowledge of SAN/NAS/FC switches, backup appliances, tape libraries.
• Knowledge of migration tools, snapshots and SAN protocols (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel).
• Knowledge of data migration, replication, switch zoning & fabric merging.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Knowledge of networking, hypervisors, Linux and Windows.
• Knowledge of security hardening and system performance tuning.

With over 28 years of experience, we have come to understand that innovation is the only way to provide agile, practical solutions that transform businesses and careers. Our resourcing and smart services help you realize tomorrow's potential. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and encourage applications from all qualified candidates.

Engineer – Data Protection in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates