Hybrid Principal Privacy Analyst

at Northrop Grumman

• Job title: Principal Privacy Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $85,600 - $128,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cyber Security
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Falls Church, United States

About the role

• Principal US Privacy Analyst at Northrop Grumman ensuring privacy principles are met. Collaborating with stakeholders to address privacy concerns while maintaining compliance.

Responsibilities

• Support privacy and data governance controls by maintaining data inventories, conducting data mapping, implementing privacy by design, ensuring data minimization, and ensuring data retention requirements
• Collaborate with business stakeholders across disciplines (e.g., law, IT, AI and data governance, communications, global supply chain, cybersecurity, etc.) on privacy assessments of products, technologies, and vendors and proactively identify and address potential privacy concerns
• Investigate and resolve privacy-related inquiries, questions, and/or complaints
• Support the development, evaluation, and refinement of privacy policies, procedures, documentation, company guidance, and processes in alignment to the evolving regulatory environment and in pursuit of continuous improvement
• Develop and implement initiatives to increase employee awareness and knowledge of key privacy topics including company policies
• Establish and apply privacy best practices and mentor and train early career privacy professionals
• Understand technical terminology to translate between technical and privacy teams on regulatory requirements
• Manage team mailboxes to respond to privacy queries
• Exhibit personal ownership and accountability for continuous improvement
• Identify critical issues with ease
• Exhibit confidence and knowledge of privacy best practices with minimal oversight

Requirements

• Must have at least 5 years of experience in any of the following disciplines: Privacy, Data Governance, and/ or Legal with a Bachelor’s degree, or at least 3 years of this type of relevant experience with Master’s degree
• Demonstrated experience negotiating data protection agreements with external vendors to ensure all applicable data privacy law requirements are met
• Demonstrated experience in operationalizing privacy-by-design principles in product development cycles by conducting data protection impact assessments and implementing risk mitigation strategies tailored to business needs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and proven ability to build relationships and positively influence business decisions related to privacy
• Strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work independently and within a global virtual team environment, stay organized, and execute work in accordance to tight deadlines

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Savings plan
• Company paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business