BHP is looking for a Principal Privacy Engineer to provide strategic, technical, and operational expertise in privacy risk management. This role drives strategic and operational outcomes through risk management and the execution of our privacy control framework, ensuring HR data is secure, accurate, and compliant.
What You'll Do
- Establish, review, and optimize best practice privacy compliance and risk management across HR teams and key stakeholders.
- Support the effective operation of the HR privacy strategy and reporting to manage risk and drive outcomes.
- Provide subject matter expertise to manage privacy risk across domestic and international jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with data security and privacy requirements.
- Determine the underlying cause of problems and evaluate multiple solutions to solve complex issues.
- 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.
- Translate corporate objectives into actionable plans and report on their progress.
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships with Technology, Security, Legal, and Data teams.
- Facilitate privacy design reviews, training, and awareness workshops for engineers, data stewards, and technology teams.
- Advise and influence projects to adopt a privacy-by-design approach.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience in a technical privacy engineering role.
- Knowledge of privacy frameworks with hands-on experience conducting privacy threat modelling via LINDDUN and/or STRIDE.
- Deep technical understanding of privacy principles including data minimization, retention, secure destruction, and privacy-by-design.
- Familiarity with advanced privacy-enhancing technologies, such as differential privacy, anonymization, and tokenization.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, Security, or Privacy.
- CIPT or CIPM certification.
Benefits & Compensation
- Flexible working options.
- Generous paid parental leave policy.
- Other extended leave entitlements.
- Parent rooms.
- Attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses.
- A best-in-class employee share program.
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.
