Department: Engineering
Location: London
Compensation: £75,000 - £90,000 / year
Description
London, hybrid
Freetrade’s mission is to become the default place to invest. Investing has been too complicated and expensive for too long, keeping millions from making the most of their savings.
We’re changing that.
We’re building our team and looking for people who are excited to reshape how our customers invest and grow their wealth. If you’re driven by solving complex problems and building innovative products, you’ll fit right in.
2025 is a big year for us. In January, we announced a game changing deal to become part of the IG Group. We’ll continue to operate as an independent business while gaining access to the resources and support of an established leader in the space.
This year, we’re accelerating our roadmap and taking our products to the next level. We’re building new features like mutual funds, bonds, and family investment tools. We’re also exploring how we can leverage AI to deliver an even better experience for our customers.
As Freetrade continues to scale and handle increasing volumes of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) — now exceeding 1 million records — and navigate expanding regulatory expectations, the need for a dedicated privacy expert has never been greater. We're looking for a
Senior Data Privacy Analyst to
build, formalise, and operationalise our data privacy program. This role is critical to safeguarding customer trust, supporting secure product growth, and ensuring compliance with UK and international privacy regulations.
You’ll play a central role in shaping how we manage, classify, and protect data across the business from engineering and marketing to customer operations, and act as a key advisor on privacy-by-design initiatives.
About you...
You’re a hands-on privacy expert with deep knowledge of GDPR and data protection principles, backed by experience implementing privacy programs in fast-moving, regulated environments. You’re equally comfortable interpreting legal requirements and translating them into clear, actionable steps for technical and non-technical teams. You thrive on building processes from scratch, collaborating across departments, and enabling responsible innovation.
You should have:
- 5-7 years of proven experience working in a data privacy, compliance, or risk-focused role
- Strong understanding of GDPR (UK and EU) and other relevant data protection frameworks
- Experience with privacy-by-design, DPIAs, and handling data subject access requests
- Familiarity with privacy tech tools, data classification, and access control
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive PII data dictionary, including mapping data locations and ensuring ROPA compliance
- Lead data classification initiatives and enforce proper data handling protocols
- Translate regulatory obligations into technical requirements, working with marketing, data, and engineering teams
- Report on compliance progress, particularly around GDPR UK and EU requirements
- Establish agreements with data owners and stewards to enforce accountability
- Work with Customer Success to process data subject requests (e.g. right to be forgotten)
- Ensure privacy-by-design practices are integrated into product development and conduct DPIAs as required
- Assess privacy risks of third-party vendors and confirm GDPR alignment
- Provide training and awareness sessions to relevant functions across the business
- Define and enforce data retention and classification policies
- Supervise internal rollout and monitoring of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Manage privacy incidents end-to-end: detection, response, remediation, and regulatory reporting
- Collaborate with the compliance team to address and resolve data-related issues
Benefits & Logistics
Freetrade is the place to accelerate your career. Our benefits package and ways of working are designed to attract and retain the most talented people who are dedicated to making an impact at Freetrade.
Here’s what’s on offer in 2025:
Hybrid working culture
We’re operating in a hybrid model:
3-days in-office / 2-days from home. We believe great collaboration happens in person and our beautiful offices in central
London and
Budapest are designed to bring people together.
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Office days: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
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Work from home days: Wednesday, Friday
This setup helps us stay connected, collaborate more effectively, and keep building a culture where we all do our best work together, including dedicated days for focus work.
Flexibility for those who need it: We have a hybrid working model, but life happens. If you need flexibility let's talk about it, whether you're a parent or have other care responsibilities.
Values - at Freetrade we live and breathe our values:
Honesty,
Focus and
Grit. Expect to be asked about these in your interview!
Benefits In London:- Competitive salary – carefully benchmarked.
- Holidays – 25 days plus UK public holidays. Your birthday off, plus one extra day for every year at Freetrade.
- Enhanced pension – We’ll match your contributions up to 5%.
- Group Life Insurance – Protect your loved ones with coverage at 5x your salary, ensuring financial security in any circumstance.
- Private Health Insurance - Which includes access to high quality medical care, mental health support, dental and vision plans, Wellness programs and preventative care initiatives are also provided to ensure the wellbeing of your entire family.
- Income Protection Cover – Safeguard your income with comprehensive coverage, ensuring financial stability in the event of illness or injury.
- Enhanced parental leave – Time off when it matters most.
- Flexibility for those who need it – We’re office-first, but life happens. Whether you’re a parent or have care responsibilities, we focus on output and trust you to manage your time.
- Learning & Development – We fund industry qualifications so you can grow as a financial services professional.
- Cycle to Work scheme – Get a high quality bike and gear through our salary sacrifice scheme, spreading the cost with tax free monthly installments.
- Paid Sick Leave – Receive 10 days of fully paid sick leave each calendar year.
Following the completion of our acquisition by IG Group, you can expect our benefits package to further improve as we align with the broader offerings available across the group.
Interview Process
We keep things simple and transparent. Our process typically includes:
- Initial Screening – A quick chat with one of our Talent Partners.
- Hiring Manager interview – A deep dive into your skills and experience.
- Data Privacy Technical interview – Show us how you think and solve problems.
- Partnership interview - We’ll explore how you collaborate with other teams and handle real-world challenges.
- Executive interview – A conversation with our stakeholders, where we also assess cultural fit.
We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse and representative team. Whatever your race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability - we want to hear from you.
To find out more about how we look after your personal data when you apply for a job with us, please see our Recruitment Privacy Policy here.
Please note we are not accepting agency CVs.
