About the Role

As a Data Governance Specialist (Data Solutions) youll help shape how we protect manage and ethically use People data across the organisation. Youll lead frameworks for data privacy security and ethics ensuring our data is trusted compliant and responsibly used including in emerging AI-enabled solutions.

What Youll Do

• Ensure compliance with global and local data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR CCPA).

• Promote ethical and responsible use of People data including guiding data ethics for AIpowered tools.

• Advise teams on best practices for data handling storage access and sharing.

• Assess and mitigate privacy security and datagovernance risks in partnership with crossfunctional teams.

• Design and maintain access controls retention policies and classification standards.

• Run regular audits to ensure policies and controls are followed.

• Act as the goto expert on People data governance privacy and security.

• Deliver training and awareness sessions across the People function.

• Investigate and manage data incidents ensuring swift resolution and accurate reporting.

• Keep governance documentation and evidence up to date.

• Support strategic planning and continuous improvement alongside the Head of People Data Solutions.

• Represent the People function in enterprise data governance communities.

What You Bring

• Clear and confident communication skills.

• Strong organisation prioritisation and timemanagement abilities.

• Ability to translate between business needs and technical realities.

• Comfort working both independently and collaboratively in a fastmoving environment.

• Analytical curious and detailoriented mindset with a passion for solving rootcause issues.

Technical Skills (Required)

• Solid grounding in data governance and data management (stewardship lineage metadata modelling classification KPI governance).

• Strong understanding of data privacy ethics and regulatory compliance including privacybydesign and sensitivedata handling.

• Working knowledge of IAM concepts (RBAC access reviews audit logging).

• SQL skills for validation auditing and analysis; familiarity with Power BI for governance insights.

• Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data pipelines (e.g. ADF Databricks).

• Ability to produce clear governance documentation playbooks RACIs and audit materials.

• Experience identifying and mitigating datarelated risks and supporting incident investigations.

Nice to Have

• Exposure to AI governance responsibleAI frameworks and modelrisk or privacy assessments.

• Familiarity with semantic models reusable data products and enterprise data architecture.

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race colour gender sex age religion creed national origin ancestry citizenship marital status sexual orientation physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy or parental leave veteran status gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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