Senior Data Privacy Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

POSITION SUMMARY
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Privacy Engineer to join our Data Protection team. The Privacy Engineer will be responsible for embedding privacy by design principles into our systems and data-handling processes. This role requires a strong technical background combined with a deep understanding of privacy regulations. The successful candidate will design, build, and maintain the technical controls that protect personal data and ensure the company's continuous compliance.

What we expect of you -

• Act as the technical subject matter expert on privacy, guiding product and engineering teams from the initial design phase through launch to ensure new features and systems are built with privacy controls integrated.

• Design and implement privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), such as data anonymization, pseudonymization, encryption, masking, and differential privacy techniques.

• Conduct privacy threat modeling, data flow analysis, technical reviews and Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) on systems, architecture, and code to identify and mitigate privacy risks, system vulnerabilities, and regulatory compliance gaps.

• Build, maintain, and integrate internal tools for privacy automation, such as automated data discovery, classification, consent management, and policy enforcement across our technology stack.

• Work with application and data engineering teams to enforce privacy requirements throughout the entire data lifecycle, including data collection, storage, processing, access, retention, and deletion.

• Collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and compliance teams to translate privacy and regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) into technical designs, policies, and guardrails.

• Monitor and research new privacy-enhancing technologies, evolving global regulations, and industry best practices.

• Evaluate, prototype, and operationalize advanced privacy technologies (e.g. synthetic data, privacy-preserving analytics, homomorphic encryption, secure multiparty computation).

• Provide mentorship and guidance to other engineers on privacy-aware development practices, secure coding, and data lifecycle protection.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security engineering, privacy engineering, privacy enhancing technologies or related fields.

• 5+ years of experience with privacy and data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, etc.) and translating them into technical requirements.

• 3+ years of experience in one or more programming or scripting languages (e.g. Python, Java, Go, Rust, or similar).

• 3+ years of experience in designing and implementing cryptographic or data protection systems (e.g. encryption, tokenization, key management).

• 3+ years of experience in performing privacy threat modeling, data flow mapping, and conducting DPIAs/PIAs.

• 3+ years of experience in working in CI/CD environments, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automating security/privacy checks.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Professional Certifications such as CDPSE, CIPP, CIPT, CIPM, CISSP, or equivalent.

• Experience building and scaling privacy platforms or features in a fast-paced environment.

• Familiarity with Data Loss Prevention (DLP) systems and data mapping tools.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and various data technologies (SQL, NoSQL databases, data lakes, etc.).

• Excellent communication and ability to explain complex technical and legal concepts to diverse audiences.

• Experience in healthcare, insurance, or highly regulated industries.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma and 4 years relevant experience).

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.  Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.  We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.  CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.  We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

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Pay Range

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This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.