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Manager, Privacy Engineering

Technology Services

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This position leads a team within the privacy discipline. The advancement of privacy enhancing / enabling technology and creating the frameworks for inclusion of privacy at the initiation of software development, systems architecture, and systems design will support enabling the use of data and technology assets in a privacy-principled and security controlled manner. We are looking for candidates with high privacy awareness, experience and interest, technical competency, strong collaboration skills, and an interest in learning and a willingness to partner within and across the organization to support, grow, and create a culture of privacy at Illinois. If you have a passion for privacy, consider applying to this exciting role on a growing and maturing team.

Illinois is a world leader in research, teaching, and public engagement. We serve the state, the nation, and the world by creating knowledge, preparing students for lives of impact, and addressing critical societal needs through the transfer and application of knowledge. Illinois is the place where we embrace difference. We embrace it because we value it. Illinois is especially interested in candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the Illinois community.

Why Work at Technology Services?

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The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Primary Position Function: 

Leads a team of privacy experts including data and privacy developers/analysts, collaborating with virtual teams of architects, engineers, and analysts to assure privacy-by-design frameworks are incorporated into each project. Implements privacy goals by advocating and enabling privacy engineering, privacy-enhancing technologies, and privacy principles as a discipline executed within the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Managerial

• Manage the Privacy Engineering team and capabilities.
• Develop, manage, and lead developers within and across teams.
• Create a framework for Privacy to be embedded within all programs/projects where high-risk or sensitive and especially identifiable data is collected, processed, analyzed or stored.
• Create and have oversight for development projects, create norms, and support the privacy architecture and roadmap for all privacy engineering capabilities and privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Serves as liaison to architecture, engineering, service and project / portfolio management to implement key privacy programs and operations.
• Facilitate privacy software development project delivery in vendor and product integrations, solutions, automation, applications, prototyping and code review and assurance.
• Support team code review in incident scenarios.
• Keeps relevant business leaders and associates informed of industry trends and updates on data privacy issues and topics.
• Participates in new business initiatives and product development activities to promote and implement functionality necessary to support required compliance capabilities.
• Serves as an external point of contact regarding the university’s data practices and compliance procedures.
• Recommends and contributes to privacy training, education, and awareness programs for students, faculty, and staff.

Projects, Program

• Manages a portfolio of privacy engineering and software development projects and manages resources, timelines and team commitments across projects initiated both inside and outside of office.
• Implements framework for use across TechServices, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and for use across the University and Big Ten.
• Keeps awareness of Privacy and Cybersecurity portfolio and roadmap and leads team to design solutions which integrate within overall frameworks, portals, methodologies across teams.

Administration

• Manages, mentors, and coaches a high performing team.
• Oversees operational budget and ensures efficient operational execution.
• Provides regular reporting to leadership.
• Participates with Privacy and Security managers, TechServices managers, on unit, university or external committees.
• Networks with university and industry partners.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Six years of progressively responsible work experience in an IT-related profession. College course work with a concentration in Information Technology (IT), IT management, or a closely related discipline may substitute for education:
  • 60 semester hours or Associate’s degree for one year,
  • 90 semester hours for two years, or
  • 120 semester hours or Bachelor’s degree for three years.
• Two years of work experience in a supervisory or lead worker capacity in an IT environment.
• Demonstrated experience in software development.
• Demonstrated experience implementing privacy principles in an IT environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing a data and/or Privacy operations team and program.
• Experience and working knowledge of software development, engineering, architectural frameworks.
• One or more years of prior work experience in a higher education environment.
• Experience supervising and developing people.
• 3 years of experience designing scalable capabilities to meet state, national, international privacy laws and regulations such as GDPR, PIPL, HIPAA.
• One or more of the following Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) or Certified Information Privacy Professional/Information Technology (CIPP/IT), SANS, CISSP, MCA, CCSA, CISA or similar cybersecurity certifications

Salary and Appointment Information

This is a full-time, year-round Civil Service IT Manager/Administrative Coordinator position. The expected start date is as soon as possible after May 30, 2022. Salary is commensurate with experience.

To Apply:

Applications must be received by May 30, 2022. Apply for this position using the “Apply for Position” button below. If you have not applied before, you must create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinois.edu. If you already have a profile, you will be redirected to that existing profile via email notification. To complete the application process:

Step 1) Submit the Staff Vacancy Application using the “Apply for Position” button below.

Step 2) Submit the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability forms.

Step 3) Upload your cover letter, resume (months and years of employment must be included), and names/contact information for three references.  Academic credentials will be verified before hire.  

In order to be considered as a transfer candidate, you must apply for this position using the “Apply for Position” button below. Applications not submitted through this website will not be considered. For further information about this specific position, contact Phil Stanton, Technology Services HR at prstanto@illinois.edu or 217-244-5037. For questions about the application process, please contact 217-333-2137.

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