Job Summary
The Technical Lead role focuses on designing and implementing secure and privacy-centric solutions using data privacy foundations and REST API integrations with OneTrust. The position requires seven to ten years of technology delivery experience in industry essentials domains, ensuring compliant data handling in a hybrid work model with day shifts and no travel requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement privacy-aware technical solutions leveraging data privacy foundations and REST API integrations with OneTrust to protect sensitive information across enterprise systems
- Oversee end-to-end technical delivery for privacy-centric applications, ensuring architecture, development, testing, and deployment align with regulatory and internal compliance expectations
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to translate privacy and consent management requirements into scalable system designs aligned with enterprise standards and industry essentials practices
- Develop reusable REST API patterns and integration components for consistent data classification, consent capture, and preference management through OneTrust across multiple products
- Review technical designs and code to ensure data flows, logging, and encryption adhere to privacy by design principles and minimize unauthorized data access risk
- Guide teams in implementing robust error handling, monitoring, and alerting for privacy-related services to ensure timely detection and remediation of compliance issues
- Optimize service performance and reliability for privacy components by refining REST API designs, improving data models, and tuning configurations for growing data volumes
- Collaborate with product owners and privacy specialists to define technical acceptance criteria that embed privacy controls into core workflows
Must haves
- Seven to ten years of hands-on experience designing and delivering enterprise applications, with at least three years focused on privacy-centric or security-sensitive systems
- Strong working experience with data privacy foundation concepts including consent lifecycle, data minimization, retention strategies, and privacy impact considerations
- Proven expertise building and consuming REST APIs, including authentication frameworks, request validation, and performance optimization for high-traffic services
- Practical implementation experience with OneTrust modules such as consent management, preference centers, and data subject request workflows in complex organizational environments
- Exposure to industry essentials domains demonstrating ability to apply privacy and security controls in real-world business processes and regulatory contexts
Nice to haves
- Experience in hybrid work environments with effective use of collaboration tools and structured communication practices for distributed teams
- Experience integrating privacy platforms with identity providers, marketing systems, or analytics tools to create unified consent and preference management experiences
- Background in automating privacy checks within continuous integration pipelines or quality frameworks to ensure consistent enforcement throughout development lifecycle
- Certified OneTrust Professional or equivalent privacy technology certification, or general data protection certification such as CIPP or CIPM
What the company offers
- Hybrid work model with day shifts and no travel requirements
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Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Job Category: Software Engineering
Workplace type: Hybrid
Job Type: Full Time
Company Name: Cognizant
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
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