Data Protection Manager, Industry Solutions Trust & Integrity Protection (TrIP), MCAPS

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Downers Grove
Posted on: January 16, 2022

Job Description:

**Industry Solutions' Trust & Integrity Protection (TrIP) team** is seeking a **_Data Protection (DP) Manager_** to contribute to the success of **Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) Business** DP initiatives. TrIP defines processes for customers' data protection including privacy, security, governance, risk, and compliance solutions, and provides guidance and oversight across the MCAPS division.

Microsoft is empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We are going after three bold ambitions: create more personal computing, reinvent productivity and business processes, and build the intelligent cloud. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.

As part of our transformation, within MCAPS, Industry Solutions will be a key growth accelerator for Microsoft, enabling digital transformation, and improving the customer experience. The Industry Solutions division at Microsoft is focused on bringing together the best of Microsoft to power a more impactful, industry-focused customer journey.

**Data Protection Manager**

As the DP Manager, you will proactively drive risk management and compliance objectives as a key partner and trusted advisor to MCAPS planning teams, ensuring future state processes and programs have privacy and security included by design. Key to this role will be building effective working relationships across the business, proactively driving the adoption of key policies and standards relevant to the business. Also, important will be close coordination with regional TrIP DP and Privacy Managers to see that relevant regional business and regulatory requirements are evaluated as key inputs into future strategies and program enhancements.

We expect you to be a data protection, compliance, or privacy professional with a passion for excellence, strong collaboration, and driving efficient outcomes. You should be very comfortable working across teams to lead and build consensus, resolve conflicts, and create positive long-term working relationships. You should also be able to work in a global environment, in a rapidly changing space, and be able to represent the team to customers, partners, and internal or external leadership.

Our team values strong cross-team communication and collaboration, and proactive sharing of learnings and best practices to help make our whole team stronger. At the same time, to be successful in this role you need to be a self-motivated driver who can succeed with limited direction.

**Responsibilities**

Own data protection & resiliency compliance end-to-end for assigned teams within MCAPS by:

+ **Delivering Strategic Frameworks**

+ Delivering a roadmap by aligning data protection services with business goals, strategies, and priorities

+ Delivering requirements for business solutions and remove organizational blockers

+ **Embedding Business Accountability**

+ Forging strong partnerships with your specific planning and process teams, to proactively review business strategies and complete risk-based data protection reviews at the optimal time in the change cycle

+ Increasing awareness of data protection obligations within the Organization

+ Sharing data protection best practices

+ **Providing Assurance**

+ Delivering data protection insights tailored to the business

+ Partnering to drive risk mitigation and improvements through various data protection reviews

+ **Delivering a Compelling Trust Story**

+ Removing sales blockers

**Qualifications**

**Minimum:**

+ At least 5 years' experience in privacy, security, or compliance disciplines, with an understanding of enterprise compliance governance and oversight processes (information security standards, laws and regulations, privacy and security, risk management, control protocols, methodologies, and practices) to operationalize these controls with business leaders

+ Data Governance, Privacy, or Information Security certifications such as CIPP, CISSP, CISA, CISM, IAPP, or CFE, etc.

+ Familiarity with control frameworks and regulatory/compliance requirements, such as ISO27001, HIPAA, FISMA/FedRamp, EU Data Protection Directive, etc.

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor communications based on audience

+ Strong project management abilities, driving projects and deliverables, and measuring results

**Preferred:**

+ CIPP

+ Commercial and/or Public Sector or Government industry experience

The salary for this role in the state of Colorado is between $103,700 and $156,400.

At Microsoft, certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role.

Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and fitness benefits, among others.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest) .

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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