Reviewing systems and business processes to ensure compliance, specifying internal workflows to meet requirements, and all sorts!

It's not just GDPR, but lots of other EU regulations this year that are having large impacts on tech systems (e.g. in the financial world), and being across those is valuable.

Perhaps you won't get your hands dirty on actual code, but technical implementation of regulation is a lucrative field (or, at least, this phase of "oh shit we need to do something" is).