Data Linkage Privacy Lead

General Dynamics Information Technology

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

GDIT is seeking an experienced Privacy Preserving Record Linkage and Automation (PPRL-A) Technical Lead to serve as the hands‑on technical lead for privacy‑preserving record linkage automation within secure, cloud‑hosted environments supporting a large federal data access and linkage initiative. This role leads design, implementation, and continuous improvement of automated, AI/ML‑enabled PPRL solutions that link large‑scale federal and non‑federal data sources while maintaining strict privacy and security controls. The PPRL-A Technical Lead reports to the PPRL-A Program Manager and partners closely with data linkage, enclave, and program operations teams to ensure PPRL workflows are accurate, scalable, explainable, and integrated into operational linkage pipelines.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree in a relevant field such as computer science, data science, biostatistics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, health services research, or a closely related discipline.
• Deep knowledge of privacy‑preserving record linkage methodologies and probabilistic and deterministic record linkage, including blocking, matching, scoring, and evaluation of linkage quality.
• Hands‑on experience implementing PPRL, linkage workflows, and automations in regulated data environments, preferably with health or administrative data at large scale.
• Strong programming and data engineering skills in languages and platforms commonly used for large‑scale data processing and linkage.
• Solid understanding of federal data security and privacy expectations, including handling of PII, tokenization, encryption, and de‑identification in support of research use.
• Broad technical background sufficient to work effectively with enclave, security, and data engineering teams in cloud‑hosted environments.
• At least 7 years of experience conducting and leading large‑scale linkage or PPRL projects for federal agencies, research organizations, or healthcare systems, including technical‑lead responsibilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear documentation of methods and findings for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher and authorization to work in the United States.
• Willingness to travel 10–25% to support on‑site collaboration in the DC Metro area.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing or deploying fully automated PPRL solutions that integrate AI/ML, encryption, and scalable matching services in cloud environments.
• Prior work with federal health or research agencies on data linkage, PPRL, and real‑world data initiatives.
• Familiarity with enclave‑based research environments, FISMA Moderate/FedRAMP Moderate contexts, and integration of PPRL into operational linkage pipelines.
• Experience with dashboards and metrics for monitoring linkage and PPRL performance and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of PPRL architectures, algorithms, and workflows that support automated matching across multiple data sources with strong privacy protection and linkage quality.
• Develop and refine AI/ML‑enabled matching strategies, blocking schemes, and scoring methods, and ensure methods are documented, reproducible, and explainable for federal stakeholders.
• Integrate PPRL pipelines with enclave and linkage platforms, including data ingestion, encryption, key management, job orchestration, and monitoring in secure, cloud‑hosted environments.
• Define and oversee quality assurance processes for PPRL, including error assessment, linkage validation, and production of methodology and performance reports.
• Collaborate with privacy, security, and policy leads to ensure PPRL implementations align with applicable regulations, DUAs, governance decisions, and program risk tolerances.
• Implement dashboards and metrics to track PPRL workloads, runtimes, match quality, and system performance, and drive continuous improvement based on operational and research needs.
• Provide technical leadership, reviews, and mentoring for PPRL and linkage engineers and analysts, establishing reusable patterns, templates, and tools.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
• 401K with company match
• Competitive pay and paid time off
• Full-flex work week
• Variety of medical plan options
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees