Principal Privacy Engineer

About BHP

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role

Provides strategic, technical and operational expertise in privacy risk management. Drive strategic and operational outcomes through risk management and the operational execution of the functions privacy control framework to create value through process improvement and ensure HR data is secure, accurate, complete, up to date, available, and relevant for use.

Accountabilities

Technical Delivery

• Establish, review and optimise best practice privacy compliance and privacy risk management and practices across HR teams and key stakeholders executing HR functions.
• Support the effective operation of the HR privacy strategy and reporting with key stakeholders to manage risk and drive strategic and operational outcomes.
• Provides subject matter expertise to stakeholders to manage privacy risk across domestic and international jurisdictions to maintain the quality and integrity of BHP data and ensure compliance with data security, privacy and legal requirements.
• Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
• Identify, design and implement improved technical controls to mitigate privacy risk
• Develop privacy tooling to support automated data destruction workflows
• Partner with key stakeholders to integrate differential privacy techniques

Collaboration & Influence

• Translates corporate objectives into actionable plans, communicating, managing and analysing the implementation of those plans, and reporting back on their progress to facilitate the delivery of our strategy.
• Builds strong cross-functional partnerships with Technology, Security, Legal and Data teams.
• Facilitate privacy design reviews, training, education and awareness workshops educating engineers, data stewards and technology teams on privacy best practices
• Advise projects and influence projects for a privacy-by-design led approach outcomes across tech and operational projects

Problem Solving & Innovation

• Identifies, implements and evaluates the success of continuous improvement activities/initiatives to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of BHP systems and processes.
• Sources information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence based decision making.
• Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.
• Implement a scalable solution or product, system testing use cases utilising differential privacy and pseudonymization.
• Use privacy threat modelling for data reach response preparedness and privacy risk visibility.

About You

• Proven experience in technical privacy engineering role
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Engineering, Security Privacy preferred
• CIPT, CIPM certification preferred
• Knowledge of privacy frameworks with hands-on experience conducting privacy threat modelling via LINDDUN and/or STRIDE and translating privacy risks into actionable mitigations
• Deep technical understanding of privacy principles incl. data minimization, data retention and secure destruction strategies, privacy-by-design and default strategies including access controls
• Familiar with advanced privacy-enhancing technologies, such as differential privacy, anonymization and tokenization.

About Our Process

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

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Supporting a Diverse Workforce

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that's more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us