PII Catalog Team Lead

The PII Catalog Team Lead owns the process of finding, classifying, and tracking personally identifiable information across every database, API, and microservice. It’s not a side project. It’s core infrastructure. Without a clear and constantly updated PII catalog, compliance slips, breaches happen, and trust dies.

Leading a PII catalog initiative means building a framework that auto-discovers sensitive fields, assigns data types, and tags records with consistent metadata. You guide engineers through the integration of scanners, schema parsers, and content detection algorithms that run at scale. You enforce policies for storing, exposing, and transferring data—whether inside your network or over public endpoints.

The role demands direct control over detection rules. A PII Catalog Team Lead defines regex patterns, machine learning models, and heuristic checks that catch edge cases. You decide the retention logic that satisfies GDPR, CCPA, or local regulations. You drive change reviews to ensure any new service respects the catalog before deploy.

Keeping the PII catalog current requires tight CI/CD integration. Every schema shift triggers a scan. Every API build passes through automated validation. Dashboards show coverage, freshness, and unresolved matches. This work is measurable, visible, and impossible to fake.

You don’t just document. You close gaps. You coordinate with security, compliance, and product teams to decide who sees what and when. You audit access logs and align encryption policies with risk models. All while training the team to read and use the catalog like a map that matters.

In the end, the PII Catalog Team Lead prevents chaos from swallowing sensitive data. The role delivers order, speed, and proof—critical in audits, invaluable in production.

See how this looks in practice. Launch a full PII catalog with automated detection and tagging on hoop.dev and watch it run live in minutes.