Data Retention SME - Consultancy

Looking for a role with plenty of growth opportunities?

Join one of the world's leading IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization. Backed by decades of experience, the company consistently ranks among the top global IT service providers. With an international presence across multiple countries, the company has built a reputation for delivering high-quality technology services across industries including banking, healthcare, telecommunications, and retail.

This role is a 6-month hybrid contract role based in London (2-3 days on-site), focused on driving enterprise data governance and retention capabilities. The role is responsible for translating regulatory requirements into actionable retention policies and frameworks, using tools such as BigID to enable compliance, data visibility, and scalable implementation across complex data ecosystems. The position requires close collaboration with legal, compliance, and business stakeholders, ideally within a financial services or insurance context.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement enterprise data retention policies and life cycle frameworks, translating regulatory requirements (GDPR, CCPA) into actionable rules.
• Drive dataset prioritisation and risk-based retention strategy, supporting data classification and mapping aligned to retention logic.
• Develop user stories and workflows for retention execution, defining treatment actions such as archive, delete, or retain.
• Govern approval workflows and oversee retention execution, ensuring auditability and ongoing regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate extensively with legal, compliance, and business stakeholders to align retention strategy with organisational risk appetite.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• Strong, demonstrable experience in data retention, governance, or privacy within complex enterprise environments.
• Deep understanding of regulatory frameworks including GDPR and CCPA, with the ability to translate requirements into practical, actionable policies.
• Hands-on experience with BigID or comparable data governance/classification platforms.
• Proven ability to engage and align across both business and IT stakeholders, including legal and compliance functions.
• Experience within the BFSI (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance) domain is highly desirable; exposure to data platforms such as Snowflake and DSPM/governance tools is a strong plus.

Salary:

• £500 per day inside IR35