Confidential mandate
Data Residency Operating Model Director — Consulting
Planned Hiring / New
A multi-country technology platform commissions a four-month data-residency operating model linking legal obligations, technical controls, vendor locations and product-release decisions across its Indian business and supporting vendors.
The mandate
The problem is that legal opinions on data location do not translate consistently into product, architecture or vendor decisions. Teams cannot prove where all regulated data, replicas, logs and support access reside.
The deliverable is an obligation-to-data matrix, verified flow and location inventory, control patterns, vendor clauses, exception process, product-release gate and operating handbook.
Milestone one lands 15 October 2026 with obligations and verified inventory; milestone two on 30 November with target control patterns and remediations; milestone three on 15 January 2027 with exercised gates, accepted exceptions and handbook transfer.
The Data Governance Council accepts when priority data classes have complete location and access evidence, legal approves obligation mappings, security tests control patterns, procurement adopts clauses and two product releases pass the new gate.
The client provides legal opinions, data catalogue, cloud and backup configurations, support-access records, vendor agreements and product architects. Counsel resolves jurisdiction interpretations within three working days.
Why this is external work
Legal, cloud and product teams each see different fragments of residency. A neutral cross-disciplinary team can translate obligations into implementable patterns and evidence. The engagement is a bounded design and proving exercise, not ongoing legal counsel.
What you will own
- Convert legal obligations into data, location, access and evidence requirements.
- Verify primary, replica, backup, telemetry and support flows for milestone one.
- Identify gaps and classify them by regulatory and operational consequence.
- Design compliant architecture and operational patterns for milestone two.
- Draft vendor evidence and contract requirements with procurement.
- Exercise exception and product-release gates on two live releases.
- Transfer the milestone-three handbook, backlog and evidence register.
Candidate qualifications
- 18–22 years in privacy engineering, data governance, cloud or technology risk.
- Direct delivery of data-location controls for a multi-country digital platform.
- Experience translating legal interpretation into technical and procurement standards.
- Knowledge of cloud replicas, backups, logs, support access and encryption controls.
- Evidence of building auditable product-release gates.
- Independence from hosting and cloud vendors under review.
Non-negotiables
- Legal interpretations remain decisions of client counsel.
- No cloud resale or migration commission.
- Delhi NCR presence for both live release-gate exercises.
- Every location assertion supported by technical or contractual evidence.
- 49 words maximum. Which data-residency model did you implement, and what hidden replica or access path changed the design?
- 49 words maximum. How would you translate conflicting legal opinions into an executable release gate?
- 49 words maximum. Which catalogue, cloud and vendor artefacts must be available during milestone one?
This mandate is confidential. The client is named only under a mutual NDA, and your own record is never listed, sold or shown to a company under your name until you release it for this specific mandate.