Senior Technical Privacy Analyst Remote - Americas

Shopify; Ontario; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Senior Technical Privacy Analyst, where you will leverage your privacy expertise to manage risks and enhance privacy controls. Collaborate across teams to ensure compliance with privacy regulations and improve privacy practices. This role offers opportunities to research new technologies and develop best practices, making a significant impact on the company's privacy initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
• Building and maintaining controls and safeguards for privacy practices.

Responsibilities

• Improving technical privacy controls across Shopify's stack.
• Collaborating with product, engineering, data, legal, and security teams.

Skills

Understanding of software development

Technical documentation skills

Tools

Cloud technologies

Big data technologies

Job description

We're looking for curious and detail-oriented individuals to join Shopify's Privacy Engineering team as a Senior Technical Privacy Analyst.

Role Overview

As a Senior Technical Privacy Analyst, you'll apply both your privacy expertise and your knowledge of Shopify's products, applications, and infrastructure to understand and manage privacy risks. Your responsibilities include reading code to verify system operations, recommending changes to mitigate privacy risks, explaining privacy systems to internal stakeholders, collaborating on improvements, and validating reported privacy issues.

Opportunities in this role include:

1. Improving technical privacy controls across Shopify's stack
2. Researching new privacy-enhancing technologies for potential use
3. Collaborating with product, engineering, data, legal, and security teams to address privacy issues
4. Using data and metrics to understand and communicate privacy program effectiveness
5. Developing and sharing privacy best practices

Qualifications

Required experience includes:

• Understanding of software development for assessing privacy risks and collaborating with developers
• Experience with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
• Building and maintaining controls and safeguards for privacy practices
• Technical documentation skills

Preferred experience (not mandatory):

• Cloud technologies, containerized environments, infrastructure as code
• Big data technologies like Spark, DBT, BigQuery
• Information security fundamentals, privacy, and compliance standards
• Creating and maintaining trusted relationships
• Preparing and delivering technical presentations