SriLankan Airlines is Sri Lanka’s award-winning flag carrier and the country’s largest airline by fleet size. Launched in 1979 as Air Lanka, it connects the island to global destinations, operating an entire Airbus fleet out of its hub at Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport.
Manager Group Data Protection & Compliance – SriLankan Airlines Job Vacancies
Available Vacancies:
Applications are invited for the following job vacancies at the SriLankan Airlines.
- Manager Group Data Protection & Compliance
Organization: SriLankan Airlines
Job Description
SriLankan Airlines Ltd, the National Carrier of Sri Lanka operates with a network of destinations throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Australia. The Airline has a strong presence in the Maldives and Southern India. SriLankan is a member of the ‘oneworld’ alliance.
SriLankan IT Systems drives the airline’s IT strategy through digital transformation, technology adoption, data modeling, business intelligence, and business continuity. The focus is on transforming business and operational processes, expanding digital passenger reach, and improving customer experience through solutions design, development, and integrations while enhancing airline IT domain knowledge. Award-winning SriLankan IT team is seeking a dynamic individual to join as a Manager Group Data Protection & Compliance.
The individual is responsible for overseeing SriLankan Group’s data privacy and information security compliance programmes, work with European Regulatory Authorities is mandatory under Article 37 (EU-GDPR) for organizations handling European natural subjects.
Ensure that sound policies, procedures and systems are in place so that Sri Lankan Airlines is able to demonstrate compliance with theGeneral Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Management of SriLankan Groups’ Information Security framework and Data Privacy through architecture of policies and implementation of processes/controls to ensure Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability and Privacy of Information as per international standards, legislative and regulatory requirements including and not limited to European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) and SO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management System.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Required to be involved, and in a timely manner, in all issues which relates to the protection of personal data and information security pertaining to passengers, customers, staff, service providers and other relevant parties ensuring confidentiality concerning the performance of designated responsibilities. Thereby fulfilling EU-GDPR requirements which otherwise leads to high penalties (2% of worldwide revenue) for violation of EU-GDPR requirements.
- Manage the assignment of responsibilities with reference to General Data Protection Regulations and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management Systems policies of the Group through the respective teams and champions in the Group businesses while managing a comprehensive program of awareness-raising and training to deliver compliance and to foster a data privacy and information security culture by default and by design within the Group. Continuously improve Information Security and Data Privacy of the Group.
- Responsible of being the contact point with and co-operate with the relevant Data Protection Authorities (DPA) in respective countries in the Northern America (NA), Latin America (LATAM), Europe,The Middle east and Africa (EMEA) and Asia Pacific (APAC), and to data subjects when exercising their individual data rights as well as supervise and advise on the response to such requests.
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| Closing Date | 2026-09-18 |
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Masters’ Degree or relevant Membership from a Professional Body and Bachelors’ Degree with 06 years post qualifying overall work experience with 03 years Managerial experience and 03 years in Executive level.ORFull professional qualification with 06 years’ overall experience with 03 years at Managerial level and 03 years at Executive level in a relevant discipline and relevant Membership from a Professional Body.