Lead Data Privacy Engineer — Enterprise PETs, DLP & Equity

CVS Health; Baton Rouge (LA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental & vision

Retirement plan

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to advance enterprise privacy engineering and data protection across structured and unstructured data. You will lead strategy, design, and implementation of PETs and DLP while ensuring regulatory compliance across GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA.

Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to translate regulatory requirements into scalable architectures.

Qualifications

• 7+ years advancing Privacy Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Protection, Cybersecurity, or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale data protection capabilities, including encryption, tokenization, key management, data classification, DLP, PETs, and insider risk controls.
• Strong software engineering foundation with 5+ years developing, integrating, and automating solutions using Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.
• 5+ years operating within cloud-native and DevSecOps environments, leveraging CI/CD pipelines, IaC, security automation, privacy threat modeling, and privacy impact assessments.
• 3+ years leading complex cross-functional privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, or compliance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, prioritization, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data protection and privacy engineering capabilities across structured and unstructured data environments.
• Design, deploy, and optimize Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), including encryption, tokenization, anonymization, pseudonymization, data classification, DLP, and other privacy-preserving solutions.
• Partner with engineering, product, legal, compliance, and cybersecurity teams to embed privacy-by-design principles.
• Conduct privacy risk assessments, privacy impact assessments, threat modeling, and control evaluations.
• Drive governance, privacy metrics, automation, and advanced analytics to strengthen privacy posture and operational efficiency.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Data protection

Security engineering

Cybersecurity

Python

Java

Go

DevSecOps

Threat modeling

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to advance enterprise privacy engineering and data protection across structured and unstructured data. You will lead strategy, design, and implementation of PETs and DLP while ensuring regulatory compliance across GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA.

Collaborate with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to translate regulatory requirements into scalable architectures.