Senior Consultant, Privacy Engineer Job in Toronto Recruiting by Deloitte

Job Type: Permanent
Reference code : 125367
Primary Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON

Our Purpose

At Deloitte, we are driven to inspire and help our people, organization, communities, and country to thrive. Our Purpose is to build a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. Purpose defines who we are and gives us reason to exist as an organization.

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Join Deloitte Canada's Risk Advisory, Data Protection and Privacy team as a Data Privacy Solution Engineer and shape the future of privacy automation.

What will your typical day look like?

As a Data Privacy Solution 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 software 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 tools and software engineering concepts will be vital as you navigate through tasks in a fast-paced, Agile environment.

Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement 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

About the team

Our Privacy and Data Protection team, part of Deloitte Canada's Risk Advisory 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.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

You are someone who has:

• 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

Qualifications:
• BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, privacy engineering or related field of study.
• Strong software development skills.
• Exposure to any privacy automation solution a plus (Onetrust, BigID, Ketch ... etc.)
• Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to effectively communicate designs, proposals, and results; and negotiate options at management levels
• 5 years' experience in privacy / data protection or a graduate degree or concentration in privacy engineering

Total Rewards

The salary range for this position is $83,000 - $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.

Our shared values

While our Purpose guides us and helps explain why we exist, our shared values describe the behaviour we expect from each other at the firm.

They provide common ground to unite us across cultures and geographies. They help us to earn the trust and respect of our stakeholders. We all commit to living by these shared values, to stay true to the principles they represent, and to honour the legacy from which they came. They are what sets us apart and makes us Deloitte.

Every day, we live our Purpose through the following five shared values: