Senior Analyst, Data Governance & Privacy (Engineering) in City of Westminster

CondéNast is looking for a Data Governance Lead based in London, GB.

The role sits within the Data Governance function, an integral part of our business strategy that helps generate value from our first‑party data while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Platform Governance
• Work with Product and Technology to define governance standards for data platforms, covering access, governance controls, platform configuration, data access, classification, ownership, and lifecycle management.

Help establish governance standards for business‑facing datasets, ensuring clear ownership, semantic definitions and appropriate usage boundaries.

Support governance of AI and self‑service analytics use cases, and partner with Product and Engineering during solution design to embed governance, privacy, and data quality requirements before implementation.

• Technical Governance & Privacy
• Lead technical privacy reviews across websites, mobile applications and backend services.

Review data collection, cookies, pixels, SDKs, APIs and server‑side implementations.

Translate legal and governance requirements into technical controls and implementation guidance.

Review consent implementations to ensure user choices are correctly enforced across analytics and advertising technologies.

Support vendor assessments and technical reviews of third‑party technologies.

• Data Mapping & Governance Operations
• Own end‑to‑end data mapping and maintain accurate records of systems, vendors, data elements and processing activities.

Support Records of Processing Activities, Data Protection Impact Assessments and regulatory documentation.

Maintain governance documentation, including data standards, classifications, lineage and governance operating procedures.

Drive improvements to governance workflows and identify opportunities for automation.

• Monitoring & Assurance
• Operate governance monitoring processes using tools such as Didomi, Privado and Observe Point.

Validate tracking behaviour, consent enforcement and data transmission on cookies, pixels and other trackers.

Investigate governance gaps and work with Engineering teams to deliver remediation.

Monitor implementation quality and ensure governance controls continue to operate as intended.

• Stakeholder Partnership
• Partner with Product teams early in delivery to ensure governance requirements are understood before implementation.

Work closely with Engineering teams to align technical implementations with governance standards.

Support Business & Legal Affairs during regulatory reviews, investigations and audit activity.

Explain technical data flows and governance decisions clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• At least 5years of experience in data privacy, data governance or ad tech within digital media environments (web and mobile data collection).
• Strong understanding of how websites, mobile applications and APIs collect and transmit data.
• Experience with platforms such as Databricks, Snowplow, Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics or similar technologies.
• Experience reviewing data flows and technical implementations, from front‑end collection to back‑end systems and third‑party vendors.
• Working knowledge of consent management platforms and frameworks such as TCF; ability to validate consent signals on analytics and advertising tech.
• Understanding of metadata, lineage, data classification and governance standards such as schema design, data standards and classification.
• Working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA and modern privacy principles, with the ability to translate requirements into practical technical controls.
• Experience working across Technology, Product, Engineering and Legal teams.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, excellent written and verbal communication, curiosity about how data systems work and a desire to improve how organisations govern data.
• Backgrounds that are particularly relevant include Privacy Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Ad Tech, Solutions Architecture, Technical Data Governance, Data Engineering, Mar Tech and Implementation Consulting.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and extra days of annual leave if you move house or want to volunteer.
• Competitive pension scheme, Bupa Private Healthcare, seasonal ticket loans and eye tests.
• Core hours, 10 remote days (from home or a CondéNast office location).
• Employee Assistance Programme, corporate gym membership and cycle to work scheme.
• Dog‑friendly office and discounts on magazine subscriptions.
• Access to the CondéNast Learning Hub for local‑language learning courses and training.
• Employee Resource Groups that provide a platform for shared objectives, idea exchange and community priorities.

CondéNast is an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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