Lead Data Privacy Engineer — Privacy by Design & PETs

CVS Health; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to advance enterprise privacy engineering and data protection for structured and unstructured data across the organization. You will drive strategy, design, and implementation of PETs, encryption, tokenization, and DLP while aligning with regulatory requirements and business needs.

Collaborating with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Data, Product, Legal, and Compliance, you will translate evolving privacy risks into scalable architectures, governance

Qualifications

• 7+ years advancing Privacy Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Protection, or related disciplines with GDPR/CCPA/HIPAA experience.
• 5+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale data protection capabilities, including encryption, tokenization, DLP, and PETs.
• Strong software engineering foundation with 5+ years Python/Java/Go.
• 5+ years in cloud-native and DevSecOps environments with IaC and automation.
• 3+ years leading cross-functional privacy initiatives across orgs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, prioritization, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise data protection and privacy engineering across data environments.
• Design, deploy, and optimize PETs including encryption, tokenization, anonymization, DLP, and data classification.
• Partner with engineering, product, legal, compliance, and cybersecurity to embed privacy-by-design principles.
• Conduct privacy risk assessments, impact assessments, threat modeling, and control evaluations for audits and regulatory obligations.
• Drive governance metrics, automation, and advanced analytics to strengthen privacy posture.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Security engineering

Data protection

Cybersecurity

Python/Java/Go

Cloud DevSecOps

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Data lakes

SQL/NoSQL

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to advance enterprise privacy engineering and data protection for structured and unstructured data across the organization. You will drive strategy, design, and implementation of PETs, encryption, tokenization, and DLP while aligning with regulatory requirements and business needs.

Collaborating with Cybersecurity, Engineering, Data, Product, Legal, and Compliance, you will translate evolving privacy risks into scalable architectures, governance