Senior Privacy Biostatistician: Platform Risk Leader

Truveta; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great benefits package

401K plan

Professional development & training

Job summary

Truveta is seeking a Principal Privacy Biostatistician to define and oversee the statistical disclosure control framework for our data platform, including imaging and clinical notes. You will sign Expert Determinations under HIPAA and mentor other statisticians, driving privacy rigor at scale.

Located in the Greater Seattle area HQ, this role shapes risk methodology for new data modalities and partners with Legal, Product, and Security to align privacy with platform growth and regulatory

Qualifications

• PhD in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, or related quantitative field; or Master's degree with equivalent depth of experience and demonstrated technical leadership.
• 10+ years of experience in statistical methods applied to patient health information, including extensive hands-on experience in statistical disclosure control and de-identification.
• Prior formal Expert Determination signing experience under HIPAA (internal or as an external consultant/expert witness), with a documented case history across multiple data modalities.
• Proven track record of defining and implementing de-identification methodology at an organizational or platform level, not just on individual datasets.
• Deep experience with multiple non-structured data modalities (imaging and/or clinical notes) in addition to structured EHR/claims data, including risk across linked modalities.
• Expert-level ability to reason across the HIPAA Privacy Rule / Security Rule boundary when estimating risk.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including producing documentation that stands alone under audit and explaining complex risk concepts to executives, partners, and regulators.
• Experience analyzing Real World Data in a research setting.
• Demonstrated success mentoring senior technical staff and developing others toward independent signing authority.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and own the end-to-end statistical disclosure control framework for Truveta's data platform, defining the methodological standards, risk thresholds, and documentation requirements used by the entire Risk Analytics team.
• Serve as a signing Expert Determiner for the most complex, novel, and high-visibility data products, applying generally accepted statistical and scientific principles to determine that re-identification risk is "very small," and documenting the reasoning to a standard that stands on its own under audit, regulatory review, or legal challenge.
• Act as the final technical reviewer and co-signer for Expert Determinations prepared by Senior and staff Privacy Biostatisticians; establish and run the peer review and case-defense process that governs the team's signing authority.
• Lead the development of risk methodology for new and emerging data modalities (e.g., genomic data, linked multi-modality data, and AI/ML-derived data products), partnering with clinical informatics, Legal, and Product to define Truveta's approach before these products go to market.
• Own and continuously evolve profile-level risk justification methodology — dynamic k-anonymity thresholds, quasi-identifier importance ranking, suppression hierarchies, drift-triggered re-determination thresholds, and process-level Expert Determinations — ensuring it scales with platform growth.
• Integrate Truveta's HIPAA Security Rule posture into Privacy Rule risk determinations; partner with security and engineering leadership to influence infrastructure, architecture, and regulatory change strategy.
• Partner with Legal/Contracts to define the organization's standards for supplementary recipient-side controls on higher-residual-risk modalities, while consistently reinforcing that these controls do not serve as a substitute for the statistical "very small risk" determination.
• Represent Truveta as the privacy statistics subject-matter expert with health system members, customers, auditors, and regulators; contribute to external publications, conference presentations, and industry standards.
• Mentor and develop Senior and staff Privacy Biostatisticians, building a clear, documented pathway toward independent signing authority and growing the team's overall bench strength.
• Influence product and data strategy by identifying opportunities to improve data utility and usability while managing residual risk and mitigating controls across the platform.

Education

PhD in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, or related quantitative field; or Master's degree with equivalent depth of experience and demonstrated technical leadership.

Tools

sdcMicro

HL7

FHIR

DICOM PS3.15 Annex E

Job description

Truveta is seeking a Principal Privacy Biostatistician to define and oversee the statistical disclosure control framework for our data platform, including imaging and clinical notes. You will sign Expert Determinations under HIPAA and mentor other statisticians, driving privacy rigor at scale.

Located in the Greater Seattle area HQ, this role shapes risk methodology for new data modalities and partners with Legal, Product, and Security to align privacy with platform growth and regulatory