About The Role

We are hiring a Senior Data Privacy Engineer to own data privacy and access governance across an enterprise data landscape. The role brings together privacy, security and data governance. You will make sure the right people have the right level of access to the right data, that personal data is identified, classified and protected, and that privacy obligations are met in day-to-day operations. The scope covers reviewing and governing access requests, rolling out least-privilege and role-based access models, maintaining the enterprise PII inventory, automating subject access request handling, and authoring the policies that govern data retention, access, quality and AI usage.

Experience & Exposure Required

• 8–10 years in data privacy, data protection, access governance or data security within large enterprise environments.
• Hands-on experience governing data access, including reviewing security group and entitlement requests, validating least-privilege and running periodic access recertification.




• Practical experience supporting RBAC and ABAC implementations on enterprise data platforms, working alongside platform and security engineering teams.
• Robust working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, DPDPA and ISO 27701, and the ability to translate these into operational controls.
• Experience building and maintaining a PII inventory, covering personal data discovery, data mapping, classification, records of processing and third-party data flows.
• Experience handling data subject and data principal rights requests (SAR/DSAR), including workflow design and automation to reduce manual effort and meet regulatory turnaround times.
• Proven experience authoring and maintaining enterprise data policies for data retention, data access, data quality and AI governance.
• Working knowledge of privacy assessments such as PIA/DPIA, transfer impact assessments and vendor or third-party privacy risk reviews.
• Strong SQL and working Python skills to query data assets

📌 Senior Data Privacy Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Impetus
📍 Chennai