Lead Data Privacy Engineer — Enterprise Privacy & PETs

ISHE; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Wellness programs

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 drive strategy, design, and scalable PETs and DLP solutions in a large healthcare environment.

Collaborating with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Data, Product, Legal, and Compliance, you will translate regulatory requirements into governance and automated controls while advocating privacy-by-design and maintaining data trust for millions

Qualifications

• 7+ years advancing Privacy Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Protection, Cybersecurity, or related technical disciplines, including architecting and implementing privacy and data protection controls.
• 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, Infrastructure as Code, security automation, privacy threat modeling, and privacy impact assessments.
• 3+ years leading complex, cross-functional privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, or compliance initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, prioritization, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data protection and privacy engineering across structured and unstructured data environments.
• Design, deploy, and optimize PETs such as encryption, tokenization, anonymization, DLP, and other privacy-preserving solutions.
• Partner with engineering, product, legal, compliance, and cybersecurity teams to embed privacy-by-design principles and governance controls.
• Conduct privacy risk assessments, impact assessments, threat modeling, and control evaluations to identify and mitigate risks.
• Drive governance metrics, automation, advanced analytics, and cross-functional initiatives to strengthen privacy posture and operational efficiency.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Data protection

Cloud security

Python/Java/Go

Leadership

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

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 drive strategy, design, and scalable PETs and DLP solutions in a large healthcare environment.

Collaborating with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Data, Product, Legal, and Compliance, you will translate regulatory requirements into governance and automated controls while advocating privacy-by-design and maintaining data trust for millions