Privacy Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 26, 2026. The Cigna Group scores A on the Alion truth index.
Privacy Engineer
Help shape how privacy works across our digital environment.
Join the Enterprise Privacy Office as a Privacy Engineer and turn complex privacy and technology issues into practical solutions. Reporting to the Chief Privacy Counsel, you will lead platforms used to monitor, assess, and manage online privacy technologies across websites and mobile applications. You will combine technical problem-solving, data analysis, and strong partnership skills to improve privacy controls, support incident response, and reduce risk.
What you’ll do:
- Own and improve online privacy technology platforms, including access, asset onboarding, scans, rules, workflows, releases, and vendor support.
- Assess cookies, scripts, pixels, tags, applications, vendors, consent behavior, and data transfers to identify meaningful privacy risk.
- Build practical data maps that show what data is collected, why it is used, where it moves, who receives it, and how long it is kept.
- Analyze platform findings, logs, inventories, tickets, and other data to identify trends, control gaps, affected assets, and potential exposure.
- Support incident response by analyzing technical evidence and helping determine affected systems, data, individuals, vendors, locations, and time periods.
- Turn findings and legal requirements into clear controls, corrective actions, and decision-ready reporting; confirm fixes and escalate material risk.
- Partner with Privacy, Legal, Information Security, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Procurement, and business stakeholders to reinforce requirements and embed privacy into digital products and processes.
What you need to do the job:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, software engineering, data science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant work experience.
- At least 5+ of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, web engineering, platform administration, application security, data protection, or a related technical field.
- Hands-on experience with a privacy, security, consent, web-governance, or digital-monitoring platform.
- Knowledge of web and mobile technologies, including JavaScript, cookies, local storage, tags, pixels, APIs, and network requests.
- Experience using technical tools and data sources to investigate data flows, map data, analyze incidents, and reach well-supported conclusions.
- Ability to turn legal, privacy, and information security requirements into practical technical controls and measurable results.
- Strong communication and partnership skills, including the ability to explain technical issues clearly to legal, business, and leadership audiences.
If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 116,500 - 194,100 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.
At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.
About The Cigna Group
Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
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