# Senior Privacy Operations Engineer

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: Bengaluru, Karnataka
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Senior Privacy Operations Engineer bridges privacy compliance and technical implementation, architecting, building, and maintaining the tooling, automation, and data infrastructure that powers the company’s global privacy program across UK/EU, US, APAC, and other regions.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Privacy Automation Engineering**

- Design, build, and maintain automation for privacy operations workflows, including data subject rights fulfillment, data discovery, data mapping, and privacy assessment triggering.

- Build and maintain API and Power Automate integrations between privacy management platforms (e.g., OneTrust) and internal systems (ticketing/ADO/Jira, identity, data stores).

- Implement risk-based conditional logic and trigger workflows for privacy assessments (PIAs/DPIAs/TIAs) tied to intake or procurement systems.

- Design and maintain automated redaction and exception-flagging pipelines for DSAR fulfillment.

**Data Mapping & ROPA Infrastructure**

- Build and maintain an automated, event-driven data flow inventory and data mapping pipeline.

- Build and maintain integrations with data discovery and classification tooling (e.g., OneTrust Data Discovery, BigID, Collibra).

- Implement drift-detection mechanisms that reconcile ROPA records against discovery/mapping tool outputs.

**Privacy-by-Design Engineering & Product Collaboration**

- Partner with engineering and product teams to implement privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default controls within products and internal systems.

- Assist in the technical implementation of data retention and deletion requirements.

- Advise engineering teams on technical architecture considerations for new products and features from a privacy and data protection perspective.

**Program Tooling, Reporting & Observability**

- Build and maintain KPI dashboards and reporting pipelines that translate raw work-item and automation data into executive-ready privacy program metrics.

- Monitor and report on the health of privacy tooling and automated processes.

**DSAR & Assessment Automation at Scale**

- Design and maintain automated routing of DSAR tasks with data-owner mapping across multiple systems.

- Build scalable automation and surge-capacity mechanisms to support DSAR volume spikes.

**Required Qualifications**

- 5-7 years of experience in a data engineering, software engineering, or technical privacy/compliance engineering role.

- Strong proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (e.g., Python, SQL).

- Hands-on experience building integrations between privacy management platforms and internal systems.

- Experience designing and maintaining automated data discovery and data mapping pipelines.

- Solid understanding of core privacy concepts and global privacy regulations.

**Benefits**

- Hybrid Work Model

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance

- Career Development and Growth

- Industry Competitive Benefits

- Culture

- Social Impact

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- SQL
- Power Automate
- OneTrust
- BigID
- Collibra
- AWS Macie
- Azure Purview

### Nice to have
- CIPT certification
- cloud data infrastructure
- automated redaction/exception-flagging pipelines
- DSAR automation at scale

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