Senior Consultant, Data Privacy Engineer

Join Deloitte Canada's Technology and Transformation, Digital Privacy and Trust team as a Data Privacy Engineer and shape the future of privacy program deployments.

As a Data Privacy Engineer, you will be at the forefront of Deloitte's mission to ensure data privacy and protection. Your day will revolve around designing, developing, and implementing programs and solutions that meet our complex clients' privacy requirements. You will be responsible for SaaS implementations, integrating marketing platforms, managing databases, and enhancing client architectures. Your expertise in privacy processes, programs and solutions will be vital as you navigate through tasks in a fast-paced, Agile environment.

Our Digital Privacy and Trust team, part of Deloitte Canada's Technology and Transformation service line, is a dynamic group of professionals dedicated to ensuring the privacy and safety of our clients' data. We work with a diverse range of technologies and tools to design and implement data privacy solutions. We value collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation. As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to work on challenging projects, develop your skills, and make a significant impact on our clients' businesses.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement programs and solutions to ensure privacy policies are correctly implemented. The implementations should advance compliance with legal forms of data use as well as support business use of data.
• Work to align advanced technologies and Privacy by Design principles from the first stages of development and ensure that the data use meets established regulatory compliance needs.
• Collaborate with data product development teams creating new uses of data that employ privacy features.
• Interacting with internal privacy program managers, product development teams, legal, compliance, governance and data protection teams.
• Analyze, design and program software enhancements for new data streams with a goal of developing technical solutions and systems to help mitigate privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy risks.
• Responsible for assisting with the management of the data privacy, data protection, data usability, performance and the integrity of the privacy solution.
• Using current programming language and technologies, creates a solid design, writes code, completes programming, and performs testing and debugging of applications as well as completes documentation and procedures for installation and maintenance.
• Interact with users to define system requirements and or necessary modifications to new or existing software.
• Interface with other developers and architects in implementing big data solutions that enable the business to be data driven while protecting the data assets.
• Interface with usability team to ensure user-facing privacy controls are usable
• Use data anonymization, pseudonimization and encryption to develop systems that preserve and improve privacy protections.
• Guide the development of new privacy products and features.
• Identify areas of improvement in local practices relative to managing data privacy.
• Performs regular privacy assessments of operational processes, identifying, and mitigating risks across the company through effective tools, training and guidance
• Communicates program progress, escalations, and issue analysis to key stakeholders
• Acts as key interface to data science and analytics communities both within and outside of the organization

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to balance risks in ambiguous and complex situations.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration skills, in particular in leading or contributing to global and multi-functional teams.
• Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance.
• Experience or understanding of software applications design tools and languages
• Understanding of design for software applications running on multiple platforms.
• Understanding of testing, coding and debugging procedures.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of software engineering fundamentals.
• Competent in the interpretation of numeric data, an understanding of statistical principles.
• Data literacy: finding and managing data, cleansing data, manipulating data.
• Ability to perform operations on large datasets
• Strong software development skills
• exposure to automation solutions
• 3-5 years experience in privacy data protection or concentration in privacy engineering

The salary range for this position is $72,000 - $125,000, and individuals may be eligible to participate in our bonus program. Deloitte is fair and competitive when it comes to the salaries of our people. We regularly benchmark across a variety of positions, industries, sectors, targets, and levels. Our approach is grounded on recognizing people's unique strengths and contributions and rewarding the value that they deliver.

Our Total Rewards Package extends well beyond traditional compensation and benefit programs and is designed to recognize employee contributions, encourage personal wellness, and support firm growth. Along with a competitive base salary and variable pay opportunities, we offer a wide array of initiatives that differentiate us as a people-first organization. Some representative examples include: $4,000 per year for mental health support benefits, a $1,300 flexible benefit spending account, 38+ days off (including 10 firm-wide closures known as "Deloitte Days"), flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work structure.