Privacy Platform Engineer: Drive Data Protection & Compliance

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Bloomfield (CT); Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Vision, Dental

401(k) plan

Life insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Job summary

The Cigna Group is seeking a Privacy Engineer to advance privacy across our digital environment. You will own platforms to monitor and manage privacy technologies across websites and mobile apps, working with cross-functional teams.

You will translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical controls, perform data mapping, incident response support, and help reduce privacy risk while collaborating with Legal, Security, Engineering, and Product.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, software engineering, data science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• At least 5+ years in privacy engineering, security engineering, web engineering, platform administration, or related technical field.
• Hands-on experience with a privacy, security, consent, web-governance, or digital-monitoring platform.
• Knowledge of web and mobile technologies: JavaScript, cookies, local storage, tags, pixels, APIs, network requests.
• Experience using tools and data sources to investigate data flows, map data, analyze incidents, and draw conclusions.
• Ability to turn legal, privacy, and information security requirements into practical technical controls.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve online privacy technology platforms, including access, asset onboarding, scans, rules, workflows, releases, and vendor support.
• Assess cookies, scripts, pixels, tags, applications, vendors, consent behavior, and data transfers to identify meaningful privacy risk.
• Build practical data maps that show what data is collected, why it is used, where it moves, who receives it, and how long it is kept.
• Analyze platform findings, logs, inventories, tickets, and other data to identify trends, control gaps, affected assets, and potential exposure.
• Support incident response by analyzing technical evidence and helping determine affected systems, data, individuals, vendors, locations, and time periods.
• Turn findings and legal requirements into clear controls, corrective actions, and decision-ready reporting; confirm fixes and elevate material risk.
• Partner with Privacy, Legal, Information Security, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Procurement, and business stakeholders to reinforce requirements and embed privacy into digital products and processes.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Security engineering

Web engineering

Platform administration

Application security

Data protection

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/IS/Cybersecurity/SE/Data Science or related)

Job description

The Cigna Group is seeking a Privacy Engineer to advance privacy across our digital environment. You will own platforms to monitor and manage privacy technologies across websites and mobile apps, working with cross-functional teams.

You will translate legal and regulatory requirements into practical controls, perform data mapping, incident response support, and help reduce privacy risk while collaborating with Legal, Security, Engineering, and Product.