Senior Data Privacy Engineer, Enterprise Protection

CVS Health; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to shape and implement scalable privacy engineering across data environments. You will partner with Cybersecurity, Legal, Product, and Compliance to translate regulatory requirements into architectures, standards, and automated controls.

This role offers influence over enterprise privacy strategy and advanced analytics to protect PHI and PII at scale. Join CVS Health to help safeguard data, enable responsible data use, and advance

Qualifications

• 7+ years advancing Privacy Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Protection, Cybersecurity, or related technical disciplines, including architecting and implementing privacy and data protection controls aligned to GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA, and similar regulatory frameworks.
• 5+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale data protection capabilities, including encryption, tokenization, key management, data classification, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), and insider risk controls.
• Strong software engineering foundation with 5+ years developing, integrating, and automating solutions using Python, Java, Go, or similar programming and scripting languages.
• 5+ years operating within cloud-native and DevSecOps environments, leveraging CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), security automation, privacy threat modeling, and privacy impact assessments to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
• 3+ years leading complex, cross-functional privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, or compliance initiatives, influencing stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Data, Security, Legal, and Compliance organizations to drive business and regulatory outcomes.

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, data classification, and DLP.
• 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 to identify and mitigate risks.
• Drive governance, metrics, automation, analytics, and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen data protection and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Privacy Engineering

Security Engineering

Data Protection

Cloud Security

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Python

Java

Go

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to shape and implement scalable privacy engineering across data environments. You will partner with Cybersecurity, Legal, Product, and Compliance to translate regulatory requirements into architectures, standards, and automated controls.

This role offers influence over enterprise privacy strategy and advanced analytics to protect PHI and PII at scale. Join CVS Health to help safeguard data, enable responsible data use, and advance