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Venable LLP’s Technology & Innovation Group seeks a Privacy Data Analyst to join the Venable Blue team in the Washington, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco office. The Privacy Data Analyst, works on and supports all aspects of client-based projects related to privacy program management, privacy operations, and regulatory response. This is a non-attorney position.

This role will help bring efficiency to how clients respond to regulatory compliance requests, including data gathering, automation of regulatory responses, and measuring operational effectiveness of privacy safeguards. This will include gap analysis and actionable recommendations for improvements in quality and accuracy.

The Privacy Data Analyst will work on and support the delivery of various workstreams such as Safeguard Maintenance, Safeguard Development, Program Management, and Audit Support.

Key responsibilities include working with clients to:

• Formulate responses to privacy compliance requests within SLA, perform data quality reviews, and conduct operational effectiveness testing against privacy safeguards;
• Develop and communicate best practices for regulatory response;
• Develop automation for compliance responses to increase efficiency and to provide consistency and quality in responses;
• Articulate data and technology gaps and their compliance impact to a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders, including product and engineering teams, risk and compliance partners, assessors and regulators;
• Recommend process improvements and strategic initiatives as related to privacy compliance response;
• Coordinate and drive client privacy response activities for both inbound and outbound relationships;
• Support business relationships with internal and external auditors and regulators.

Qualifications:

• B.A. or B.S. degree; Master’s degree (or equivalent) preferred;
• 3 years of minimum work experience in high profile settings, such as presenting to leadership and driving cross-functional teams;
• 3 years of minimum experience in a quantitative role related to data, reporting, and analytical problem solving;
• 3 years of minimum experience writing complex SQL queries to drive analysis and insights.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience coding in Python, R, PHP and/or similar programming language;
• Experience with developing security/privacy reporting and recommendations that are meaningful, defensible and actionable for a variety of audiences;
• Experience developing and submitting audit and compliance reports to governing bodies, legal entities, and/or external authorities;
• Experienced in processes for assessing and designing internal controls for large scale organizations;
• Experience performing risk assessments or safeguard/control operational effectiveness testing.