Data Privacy Engineer

Illinois Tollway; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

The Illinois Tollway is hiring a Data Privacy Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data privacy and protection capabilities. You will partner with IT, Security, Legal, and business stakeholders to embed privacy into systems and data lifecycles, enabling data-driven innovation while strengthening governance and AI governance programs.

This role focuses on creating technical privacy controls, supporting regulatory compliance, and advancing Privacy

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Privacy, Privacy Engineering, Data Governance, Information Security or Data Protection.
• Experience implementing enterprise privacy or security technologies.
• Experience conducting privacy assessments and translating regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience implementing Microsoft Purview capabilities.
• Experience supporting AI governance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise data privacy controls across structured and unstructured data environments.
• Embed Privacy by Design principles into application development, cloud solutions, data platforms, and AI initiatives.
• Develop technical standards for protecting PII, SPI, payment information, and operational data.
• Design and implement Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) including data masking, tokenization, encryption, pseudonymization, and anonymization.
• Support enterprise data governance by documenting privacy requirements throughout the data lifecycle.
• Assist in developing privacy metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and regulatory reporting.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and industry regulations including PIPA, DPPA, BIPA, PCI-DSS, NIST Privacy Framework.

Skills

Data Privacy

Privacy Engineering

Data Governance

Information Security

Data Protection

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Salary $75,000.00 - $85,000.00 Annually

Location Central Administration 2700 Ogden Avenue Downers Grove, 60515, IL

Job Type Professionals

Job Number 68426-102226

Department Information Technology

Division Office of Info. Tech.

Opening Date 10/22/2026

Closing Date 11/5/2026 11:59 PM Central

Union Role Yes

Union Name AFSCME - 88311

Position Grade 7

Position Overview

The Illinois Tollway is dedicated to providing and promoting a safe and efficient system of highways while ensuring the highest possible level of service to our customers. Whether it's I-PASS, the Move Illinois Program, open road tolling or keeping you safe with our H.E.L.P. trucks, we are committed to delivering great benefits and services to customers.
This Tollway is a user-fee system – no state or federal tax dollars are used to support maintenance and operations. Operations are funded by toll and concession revenues.
Under the leadership of the Board of Directors and Executive Staff, the Tollway is committed to achieving the following goals: increase collaboration with regional transportation and planning agencies, promote the regional economy, maintain financial integrity, foster environmental responsibility and sustainability, maintain the safety and efficiency of the Tollway system, further transparency and accountability, enhance customer service, and maintain public trust.
The Illinois Tollway is seeking a Data Privacy Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data privacy and protection capabilities. This position serves as a strategic partner in Information Technology to Information Technology Security, Data Governance, Legal, and business stakeholders to ensure privacy requirements are embedded into the Tollway’s systems, applications, and data lifecycle.
The Data Privacy Engineer will champion Privacy by Design principles, develop technical privacy controls, support regulatory compliance initiatives, and enhance the Tollway’s ability to responsibly manage sensitive information while enabling data-driven innovation. This position will play a key role in strengthening the Tollway’s data governance, cybersecurity, AI governance, and data privacy programs.

Essential Job Functions

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise data privacy controls across structured and unstructured data environments.
• Implement Embed Privacy by Design principles into application development, cloud solutions, data platforms, and AI initiatives.
• Develop technical standards and guidance for protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Sensitive Personal Information (SPI), payment information, and operational data.
• Design and implement Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), including:
  • Data masking, Tokenization, Encryption, Pseudonymization, and Anonymization.
• Support enterprise data governance by documenting privacy requirements throughout the data lifecycle.
• Assist in developing privacy metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and compliance reporting.
• Support compliance with applicable federal, state, and industry regulations including:
  • Illinois Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), Driver Privacy Protection Act (DPPA), Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), PCI-DSS, NIST Privacy Framework, State of Illinois cybersecurity standards, Applicable federal transportation regulations.
• Conduct Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) and privacy risk assessments.
• Perform data flow mapping to identify collection, storage, processing, sharing, and retention of sensitive information.
• Partner with cybersecurity team to conduct privacy threat modeling and risk analyses.
• Recommend technical and administrative safeguards to mitigate identified privacy risks.
• Support third-party privacy reviews and vendor risk assessments.
• Partner with Tollway stakeholders to implement privacy controls and guidelines for Artificial Intelligence solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to identify privacy implications and recommend appropriate safeguards.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to project teams throughout procurement, solution design and implementation.
• Foster strong relationships with business stakeholders to promote a culture of responsible data use.

Qualifications

Education (Required): Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Information Management, Data Science or a related field from a four-year accredited university.

Skills and Experience (Required)

• Five (5) years or more of experience in one or more of the following: Data Privacy, Privacy Engineering, Data Governance, Information Security, Data Protection.
• Experience implementing enterprise privacy or security technologies.
• Experience conducting privacy assessments and translating regulatory requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience implementing Microsoft Purview capabilities.
• Experience supporting AI governance initiatives.
• Experience implementing Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Insider Risk Management, or Information Protection solutions.
• Experience with data quality, metadata management, and data lineage tools.
• Knowledge of data protection regulations and best practices.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

The Illinois Tollway is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, national origin or ancestry, disability, unfavorable discharge from military services, age, order of protection status, military status, sex or sexual orientation.

All stated experience for each question listed within the Supplemental Question Section must also be reflected in the "Work Experience" section of your application or in your resume. Failure to do so, or overstating experience, will result in receiving no credit for your answer, and may result in your disqualification from consideration.

Employer

Illinois State Toll Highway Authority

Address 2700 Ogden Avenue

Downers Grove, Illinois, 60515

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