Data Privacy Technologist

Introduction:
Siemens Healthineers develops MedTech products that support better patient outcomes with greater efficiencies, giving providers confidence that they need to meet the clinical, operational, and financial challenges of a changing healthcare landscape. With 50,000+ employees Siemens Healthineers is one of the world’s largest suppliers of technology to the healthcare industry. As a global leader in medical imaging, laboratory diagnostics, and healthcare information technology, we have a keen understanding of the entire patient care continuum—from prevention and early detection to diagnosis and treatment.
Brief Description:
Data Privacy Technologist will support the organization with EU GDPR compliance aligning with global Data Privacy efforts. You will play a key role is helping the organization meet the highest standards of Data Privacy Compliance. You will be (in close coordination with DP Compliance) responsible for defining and monitoring the de-identification and anonymization procedures for personal (e.g. patient, physician, etc..) data collected within SHS Business Units.
Tasks and Responsibilities:

• In this role, you will be responsible for defining the de-identification and anonymization procedures for patient data collected in cooperation with healthcare organizations.
• It will be your task to identify direct and in-direct identifiers, perform risk assessments of data sets, including the calculation of re-identification risks, and give advice for the mitigation of such risks.
• During the planning of these procedures, you will discuss with the internal stakeholders their data needs and advise them on the adherence to data privacy regulations and processes while retaining the usefulness of the data.
• You differentiate between personal and anonymized data and routinely apply the data avoidance- and data minimization principles.
• You consistently review the new state of technology particularly with regards to re-identification (e. g. artificial intelligence) and take corrective measures.
• You interact closely with the Data Privacy compliance organization, data owners, as well as the Collaboration and R&D teams.
• Your ideas help to improve the established data handling processes within our company.

Qualifications and Experience:

• You hold a university degree in the fields of statistics, computer science, data science or mathematics.
• You understand the differences between personal and anonymized data and know how to apply the data avoidance- and data minimization principles
• You show deep expertise in the processing of personal data and anonymization techniques (e.g., pseudonymization, obfuscation, k-anonymization, hashing, encryption, ...).
• You have a minimum of 2-3 years of working experience in a Data Privacy role as well as a sound knowledge of GDPR and other data protection regulations and concepts (such as HIPAA).
• Preferably, you already have experience in minimizing and de-identifying healthcare data and are familiar with data formats specific for Healthcare images, such as in-vivo and in-vitro diagnostics, Healthcare standards such as DICOM, HL7, etc.
• Ideally, you have already interacted with Data Protection Authorities, Regulators or Government Agencies.
• Certifications, such as Certification in Information Privacy Professional/ Europe (CIPP/E), CIPT, CIPM(GDPR), DCPP are a plus.

Profile and Skills:

• Your analytical and statistical skills allow you to quickly get to the heart of the challenge and you have a talent for explaining complex issues in an easily understandable, logical way
• You convince through your willingness to take on responsibility and act solution-oriented at the interface between business and legal standpoints
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate in a cross-functional, cross-cultural matrix environment
• At least 2+ years of working experience with multinational teams will be required.
• Proven stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Ability to demonstrate decisiveness and sound judgement on a consistent basis
• You are used to dealing simultaneously with a large number of projects and prioritizing them
• You are a team player and feel confident in communicating effectively with internal stakeholders as well as with external parties, such as government officials