Senior Privacy Engineer: Data Protection & PETs Leader

CVS Health; Charleston (WV); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to drive enterprise privacy strategy and implement scalable data protection across data environments. You will partner with cybersecurity, engineering, data, product, legal, and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into robust architectures and automated solutions.

The role emphasizes privacy-by-design, governance, risk assessments, and continuous improvement to safeguard PHI/PII while enabling compliant data use at scale.

Qualifications

• 7+ years advancing Privacy Engineering, Security Engineering, or related technical disciplines, including architecting and implementing privacy and data protection controls.
• 5+ years designing and deploying enterprise-scale data protection capabilities, including encryption, tokenization, key management, DLP, PETs.
• Strong software engineering foundation with 5+ years developing, integrating, and automating solutions using Python, Java, Go, or similar languages.
• 5+ years operating within cloud-native and DevSecOps environments, leveraging CI/CD pipelines, IaC, security automation, and privacy threat modeling.
• 3+ years leading complex, cross-functional privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, or compliance initiatives.

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) such as encryption, tokenization, anonymization, pseudonymization, data classification, and DLP.
• Partner with engineering, product, legal, compliance, and cybersecurity teams to embed privacy-by-design principles and translate regulatory requirements into scalable architectures.
• Conduct privacy risk assessments, privacy impact assessments, threat modeling, and control evaluations to identify, mitigate, and monitor risks.
• Drive enterprise data governance, privacy metrics, automation, advanced analytics, and emerging privacy technologies.

Skills

Privacy Engineering

Security Engineering

Data Protection

Programming languages (Python, Java,Go

Cloud & DevSecOps

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Data Privacy Engineer to drive enterprise privacy strategy and implement scalable data protection across data environments. You will partner with cybersecurity, engineering, data, product, legal, and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements into robust architectures and automated solutions.

The role emphasizes privacy-by-design, governance, risk assessments, and continuous improvement to safeguard PHI/PII while enabling compliant data use at scale.