Senior Data Privacy Engineer: PETs & Data Protection Lead

Sacbar; Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

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 design Privacy Enhancing Technologies and lead risk assessments while partnering with legal, compliance, product, and security to embed privacy-by-design.

This role requires 7+ years in privacy/security engineering, strong software skills (Python/Java/Go), and experience with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and HIPAA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years advancing Privacy Engineering and data protection roles.
• 5+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale data protection capabilities.
• Strong software engineering with Python, Java, or Go in cloud-native setups.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and delivery of enterprise data protection and privacy engineering.
• Design and deploy PETs including encryption, tokenization, anonymization, and DLP.
• Partner with legal, compliance, product, and cybersecurity to embed privacy-by-design.
• Conduct privacy risk assessments and control evaluations across systems.
• Drive governance metrics, automation, and adoption of privacy technologies.

Skills

Privacy Engineering

Data Protection

Python

Java

Go

DevSecOps

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Encryption

Tokenization

DLP

Key management

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 design Privacy Enhancing Technologies and lead risk assessments while partnering with legal, compliance, product, and security to embed privacy-by-design.

This role requires 7+ years in privacy/security engineering, strong software skills (Python/Java/Go), and experience with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and HIPAA.