Senior Technical Architect (Privacy)

About the role

<div class="content-intro"><h3>Strength in Trust&nbsp;</h3> <p><span data-contrast="auto">OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></div><p><strong>The Challenge</strong></p> <p>We are looking for a Senior Technical Architect (Privacy) to join our Technical Advisory team (part of Customer Success). This is a customer-facing role for someone who combines a strong technical foundation with attention to details, and the ability to build trust with customers.</p> <p>You will work with privacy, legal, compliance, and technology stakeholders to understand business objectives and challenges, assess maturity and platform adoption, and provide clear recommendations across privacy processes, operating models, workflows, data, and integrations. You will act as a trusted advisor and product expert without owning hands-on implementation or configuration.</p> <p>Previous privacy or OneTrust expertise is valuable, but it is not the defining requirement for this role. We are looking for someone with the attitude, consultancy skills, and technical capability to learn the privacy domain quickly and become a trusted advisor.</p> <p><strong>Your Mission</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead outcome-focused discovery, advisory engagements, workshops, and expert sessions with customers.</li> <li>Clarify customer objectives, constraints, stakeholders, and desired outcomes before recommending a path forward.</li> <li>Translate business and regulatory needs into practical recommendations for privacy processes, workflows, data, integrations, and OneTrust capabilities.</li> <li>Explain solution options, dependencies, trade-offs, and implications for scale at the appropriate level of detail.</li> <li>Assess customer readiness, adoption barriers, process maturity, and solution direction; recommend pragmatic next steps.</li> <li>Create clear, decision-ready deliverables such as current-state assessments, future-state recommendations, reference architectures, process guidance, and reusable patterns.</li> <li>Build trusted relationships and communicate confidently with both technical and executive audiences.</li> <li>Partner closely with Customer Success, Product, Sales, Support, Professional Services, and other specialist teams to deliver consistent customer outcomes.</li> <li>Capture recurring customer needs and translate them into feedback, enablement content, playbooks, and product opportunities.</li> <li>Maintain clear advisory boundaries: provide strategic framing, product expertise, and guidance while enabling customers or delivery partners to execute implementation.</li> </ul> <p></p> <p><strong>You Are</strong>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Your Experience Includes:</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in consulting, technical advisory, solution consulting, customer success, business analysis, transformation, or another customer-facing problem-solving role.</li> <li>A strong technical background in enterprise software (ideally SaaS), systems, data, workflow design, integrations, APIs, solution architecture, or a related field.</li> <li>A consultative approach: you listen carefully, ask effective questions, structure ambiguity, and turn

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