senior privacy impact assessment pia specialist.

We are seeking a highly accomplished Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist to provide expert-level privacy risk evaluation and regulatory governance for enterprise systems, programs, and policies. In this role, you will lead the end-to-end development of comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments to ensure that data collection pipelines, application interfaces, and business practices strictly align with legislative compliance requirements and internationally accepted Fair Information Practices. Acting as a critical advisory authority, you will identify structural privacy exposures, formulate risk-mitigation strategies, and translate complex compliance mandates into actionable guidance for both technical engineering squads and business leaders.

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Duration: 1-month contract.

Advantages
Focused Advisory Scope: Drive high-visibility, pure-play privacy risk engineering and compliance validation with a targeted, rapid-delivery timeline.

Elite Legislative Portfolio: Deepen your professional credentials by applying robust public sector privacy frameworks (such as FIPPA, MFIPPA, and PHIPA) to modern technical platforms.

Full Data-Flow Visibility: Command technical oversight over enterprise data architectures, system interfaces, and information lifecycle designs.

Executive Consensus Driving: Serve as the definitive data privacy expert, leading workshops and aligning cross-functional teams around data protection rules.

Responsibilities
Privacy Impact Assessment Leadership: Direct and manage the full lifecycle development of detailed Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) to evaluate compliance across new technologies, software frameworks, and operational policies.

Risk Countermeasure Formulation: Analyze complex data lifecycle tracks to detect systemic privacy risks, building actionable remediation playbooks and security safeguards to minimize liabilities.

Legislative & Jurisprudence Research: Conduct thorough regulatory analysis against provincial, municipal, federal, and international access and privacy statutes to ensure absolute data governance.

Cross-Functional Data Gathering: Coordinate with multi-disciplinary stakeholders, legal experts, and technical architects to gather systems input, mapping data flows, system interfaces, and business processes clearly.

Information & Records Governance: Align technical collection systems with corporate record-keeping policies, establishing clear rules for the classification, retention, secure storage, and disposition of personal information.

Strategic Compliance Consultation: Translate dense legal, privacy, and security principles into accessible, high-level presentations and reports tailored for technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.

Accessibility & Inclusion Review: Ensure that information practices and system deliverables respect accessibility requirements and digital inclusion standards.

Qualifications
Core Privacy Seniority: 8+ years of progressive professional experience leading data privacy, information security, or regulatory compliance initiatives within highly structured corporate or public environments.

Public Sector PIA Mastery: Extensive, demonstrated experience planning, executing, and finalizing comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments within a public sector context.

Advanced Statutory Knowledge: Expert-level capability to interpret and apply FIPPA, MFIPPA, and PHIPA, along with a strong working familiarity with PIPEDA and relevant privacy jurisprudence.

Ecosystem Process Mapping: Proven experience building and interpreting complex data flow diagrams, system interface behaviors, and business process models.

Information Management Acumen: Direct knowledge of records management principles, featuring practical experience handling information classification indexes, retention schedules, and secure disposal workflows.

Cross-Disciplinary Literacy: Strong functional understanding of related technical domains, including IT security architectures, business analysis, risk management, and cloud system topologies.

Communication & Collaboration: Outstanding interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills, with a track record of guiding diverse project teams and independently managing complex compliance deliverables.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Health Information Management, Law, Information Technology, or an approved equivalent combination of education and relevant senior professional experience.

Summary
If you're interested in the "Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist" role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at Only qualified candidates will be contacted for the next steps. We look forward to hearing from you!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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