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Data Protection and Risk OfficerExplorance • Montreal, Quebec
Data Protection and Risk Officer

Data Protection and Risk Officer

Explorance • Montreal, Quebec
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Posting : Data Protection and Risk Officer

Position Title : Data Protection and Risk Officer

Reporting to : EVP Organizational Performance, Culture & Strategy

Department : Operations

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Protection and Risk Officer to join our

team. Reporting to the EVP of Organizational Performance, Culture, and Strategy, you will

be a key member of the Operations department, which includes GRC, HR, and Program

Management teams. Your primary responsibility will be to lead our data protection and

risk management program, ensuring compliance with global regulations and best practices.

You will work closely with various teams, including Sales, HR, Engineering and

IT / DevOps / SecOps / CloudOps to advise on compliance matters, implement and monitor IT

compliance activities, and foster a culture of security and privacy throughout the

organization.

Responsibilities

  • Build a strategic and comprehensive information security program that defines,

develops, maintains and implements policies and processes that enable consistent,

effective information security practices which minimize risk and ensure the

integrity, confidentiality and availability of information that is owned, controlled

and processed within Explorance

  • Ensure information security policies, standards, and procedures are up-to-date
  • Initiate, facilitate, and promote activities to foster information security awareness
  • within the organization

  • Create a culture of cyber security both with the IT organization and driving
  • behavioral changes for the business

  • Evaluate security trends, evolving threats, risks and vulnerabilities and applies tools
  • to mitigate risk as necessary

  • Manage security incidents and events involving IT systems
  • Ensure that the disaster recovery, business continuity, risk management and access
  • controls needs are addressed

  • Ensure compliance with the administrative, technical and physical safeguards
  • Manage rd party security audits and penetration testing initiatives
  • Serve in a leadership and functional role for security compliance

  • Work closely with the internal teams to ensure alignment between security and
  • privacy compliance programs including policies, practices and investigations, and

    acts as the point of contact for the information systems and compliance

    departments

  • Initiate and perform periodic information security risk assessment / analysis,
  • mitigation and remediation. Responsible for development and implementation of

    security risk management plan

  • Support the implementation of controls and perform period audits to ensure that
  • activity is appropriate. Such activity would include, but is not limited to, logons and

    logoffs, file and system access

  • Ensure the organization has and maintains appropriate system use and disclosure /
  • confidentiality and Privacy statements

  • Oversee, develop and / or deliver initial and ongoing security training to the
  • workforce

  • Initiates, facilitates and promotes activities to foster information security awareness
  • within the organization and related entities

  • Participate in the development, implementation, and ongoing compliance
  • monitoring of all business agreements, to ensure security concerns, requirements,

    and responsibilities are addressed

  • Establish and administer a process for investigating and acting on security incidents
  • which may result in a privacy breach.

  • Partners with Human Resources and Business Process to ensure consistent sanctions for security violations
  • Maintains current knowledge of applicable local, federal and international laws, as
  • well as certification requirements and accreditation standards.

  • Serve as information security officer to all departments for all data security related
  • questions and issues

  • Participate in rd party vendor risk and compliance assessment activities such as
  • SOC reports reviews or other control assurance reports

    Professional Experience / Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in a field related to Information Technology, Business or Risk
  • Management or a related IT security certification such as CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCSP

  • Security industry related knowledge and credentials, such as SOC, NIST -,
  • ISO , OWASP

  • Knowledge and experience in local and federal information security laws, such as
  • PIPEDA, FERPA, GDPR, FedRAMP

  • Understanding of risk assessment methodologies ( RCSA), internal controls and
  • controls testing ( SOC), and industry technology risk management frameworks, as well as familiarity with SDLC and Project Management methodologies

    Additional Requirements

  • A high level of integrity and trust
  • Demonstrated organization, facilitation, written and oral communication, and
  • presentation skills

  • Interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills with the ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
  • Demonstrated skills in collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving to achieve
  • goals.

  • Excellent writing skills
  • Knowledge and direct experience with Resiliency-Disaster Recovery and Business
  • Continuity compliance

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