Remote Director, Data & Privacy R&D – Privacy Engineering

Siemens Mobility; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Competitive compensation

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Siemens Mobility is seeking an experienced Director, Data & Privacy R&D to lead Siemens’ privacy and data governance program within Asset Management Software. This role partners with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data & AI, and Legal/Compliance to embed privacy into product development and platform operations.

Based in the U.S., the position is Raleigh-preferred but remote candidates across the Eastern U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of progressive experience in technical privacy implementations, technical data handling, or related fields.
• Deep experience translating multi-jurisdictional regulatory and privacy obligations into practical controls, workflows, and engineering actions.
• Strong technical fluency in B2B SaaS or cloud environments, including AI, cloud architecture, multi-tenancy, APIs, incident response, threat models, and access controls.
• Proven delivery of privacy program artifacts and operating mechanisms, including RoPAs, DPIAs, DSR workflows, checklists, training, policies, and governance routines.
• Executive presence and cross-functional influence with product, legal

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical execution of Siemens privacy and data governance roadmap in alignment with enterprise strategy and Siemens requirements.
• Build, operate, and continuously improve the company’s privacy engineering and privacy operations capabilities.
• Serve as the primary technology liaison to Siemens DPOs, coordinating cross-functional privacy activities and approved requirements.
• Deliver quarterly executive updates on program execution status, technical control maturity, DSR performance and progress against DPO, Cybersecurity, Legal and Compliance identified risk priorities.
• Own the R&D privacy and data governance program budget, forecast needs, and provide clear spend visibility.
• Guide product and engineering teams on implementing DPO and Legal approved privacy and regulatory requirements needed to support launches in new regulatory environments.
• Establish privacy-by-design standards built into the SDLC, with measurable, testable controls incorporated into every release.
• Define scalable approaches for data consent, minimization, retention, anonymization, and tenant isolation with architecture, product, and engineering leaders.
• Translate DPO and Legal-approved regulatory requirements into technical specifications, architectural changes and engineering tickets.
• Assess the technical impact of, and implement controls for, key global and regional regimes.
• Maintain technical evidence and control documentation showing how privacy and regulatory requirements are implemented within the CI/CD pipeline, with the CISO organization.
• Drive technical governance for cross border data flows, data residency, and customer data segregation, partnering with Security Architecture on shared design patterns.
• Co-lead weekly privacy/security triage with the CISO organization for requests and subprocessor decisions.
• Coordinate subprocessor technical reviews and approvals.
• Provide input for monthly and quarterly Privacy and Security KPI dashboards.
• Own and maintain the Privacy Requirements Checklist for technical, architectural and product features, integrations, and data workflows.
• Define engineering standards for collecting, storing, processing, sharing, and deleting customer and personal data.
• Partner with Architecture and Engineering to establish privacy reference architectures and reusable design patterns.
• Embed reusable privacy patterns into release and design review checkpoints.
• Balance privacy with scalability, performance, usability, and innovation; across engineering tradeoffs.
• Establish privacy metrics and operational KPIs within product engineering organizations.
• Run monthly office hours to unblock product and engineering teams on privacy decisions.
• Establish AI, analytics, and machine learning data governance practices, including controls for training data, synthetic data, model outputs, human review, and retention.
• Partner with AI and Data teams to assess privacy implications of emerging technologies.
• Develop reusable privacy controls and platform services to reduce implementation effort across product teams.
• Drive automated technical controls for AI model transparency, explainability, and data lineage supporting EU AI Act conformity.
• Build technical mechanisms for data portability and interoperability to meet EU Data Act obligations, enabling customers to export and migrate their data.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Cloud architectures

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

RoPA tooling

DPIA tooling

Job description

Siemens Mobility is seeking an experienced Director, Data & Privacy R&D to lead Siemens’ privacy and data governance program within Asset Management Software. This role partners with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data & AI, and Legal/Compliance to embed privacy into product development and platform operations.

Based in the U.S., the position is Raleigh-preferred but remote candidates across the Eastern U.S.