Data Privacy Engineer

Stratacent • Mclean, VA

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About The Position

Stratacent is looking for a Data Privacy Engineer with strong experience in Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) and Data Privacy Management (DPM), implementing enterprise-wide data governance and privacy solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Engineering, or a related field
• Experience in data governance/catalog operations, privacy tooling, data engineering, or production support for data platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica CDGC (connectors/scanners, metadata ingestion, scan operations, troubleshooting).
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting connections to databases/platforms including DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to validate schemas, permissions, and scan behavior.
• Solid understanding of authentication/authorization concepts (least privilege, service accounts), secure credential handling, and basic network troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Configure and operate CDGC metadata/data scans, schedules, scope rules, and performance-safe scan settings; onboard new sources end-to-end.
• Create and maintain secure connections (JDBC/ODBC/connectors), service accounts, and credential management for enterprise data platforms.
• Diagnose and resolve scan failures related to RBAC/privileges, expired credentials, TLS/certificates, drivers, firewall/ports, DNS, and network routes.
• Curate catalog assets (domains, tags, ownership/stewardship), support glossary alignment, improve metadata quality, and ensure consistent taxonomy/naming standards.
• Assist with configuring and validating sensitive data identification/classification outcomes (PII/PHI/PCI) and reduce false positives/negatives in partnership with data owners.
• Work within AWS environments to enable scanning connectivity (VPC/security groups, private endpoints/PrivateLink patterns where applicable) and support components running on EKS (logs, configs, secrets, scaling) when needed.
• Provide scan coverage and health reporting, and support incident/problem management for catalog/scanning services.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level