We are seeking an expert Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist to lead and support the evaluation of modern digital architectures, information systems, and enterprise policies. In this role, you will ensure all corporate and technology deployments meet strict statutory privacy benchmarks, determine information vulnerabilities, and establish robust risk-mitigation strategies. You will play a defining role in aligning digital services with provincial, federal, and international access and privacy legislation.
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Location: Toronto, ON (Minimum 3 days onsite; transitioning to 5 days)
Duration: 9-month contract
Advantages
High-Profile Strategic Scope: Take direct technical ownership of privacy governance across vital, next-generation digital healthcare and public sector systems.
Diverse Solution Exposure: Expand your professional portfolio by auditing a unique blend of internal software assets and modern, third-party private sector application layers.
Autonomous Execution: Manage critical assessment tracks independently within a structured, mature enterprise delivery pipeline.
Professional Marketability: Deepen your expertise in high-demand, specialized compliance spaces (PHIPA/FIPPA) that interface directly with emerging cloud-native architectures.
Responsibilities
Privacy Impact Assessment Leadership: Lead the end-to-end development of PIAs to determine whether new technologies, cloud configurations, or business policies meet complex legal compliance requirements.
Risk Mitigation Engineering: Evaluate information architectures and digital solutions to identify privacy threat vectors, design security countermeasures, and author formal privacy risk registries.
Third-Party & Vendor Validation: Conduct rigorous privacy reviews on third-party application solutions, non-profit sector software providers, and external data service integration partners handling personal health information.
Data Flow & Systems Auditing: Analyze complex systemic data flows, information architectures, and identity verification mechanisms to assess the current and future privacy implications of system designs.
Policy Collaboration: Partner with policy development teams to review, compare, and draft privacy-enhancing guidelines, standard operating procedures, and governance baselines.
Records Governance Oversight: Ensure compliance with information management directories, including strict data classification, secure retention schedules, and legal data disposition procedures.
Cross-Functional Communication: Serve as a core advisor, translating dense legislative mandates and technical security patterns into plain language for executive sponsors, project managers, and business BAs.
Qualifications
Legislative Mastery: Comprehensive, professional-level knowledge of Canadian privacy frameworks, including FIPPA (and MFIPPA), PHIPA, and federal PIPEDA mandates, regulations, and associated jurisprudence.
Digital Solution Assessment: Proven experience leading and conducting formal PIAs specifically tailored to online ecosystems, cloud configurations, and complex digital platforms.
Health Information Expertise: Direct, hands-on experience managing assessments that involve Personal Health Information (PHI) crossing boundaries into third-party vendor applications or external systems.
Modeling Capability: Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, and validate high-level data flow diagrams (DFDs) and business process models to identify privacy vulnerabilities.
Interpersonal Skills: Elite consultation, negotiation, and report-writing capabilities, with a track record of driving cross-functional project teams toward a privacy consensus.
Compliance Framework Knowledge: Strong familiarity with internationally accepted Fair Information Practices and the operational rulings of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC).
Nice to Have: Prior experience navigating the Ontario Public Service (OPS) privacy impact assessment process, tools, or related public sector corporate governance.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. 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.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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We are seeking an expert Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist to lead and support the evaluation of modern digital architectures, information systems, and enterprise policies. In this role, you will ensure all corporate and technology deployments meet strict statutory privacy benchmarks, determine information vulnerabilities, and establish robust risk-mitigation strategies. You will play a defining role in aligning digital services with provincial, federal, and international access and privacy legislation.
Location: Toronto, ON (Minimum 3 days onsite; transitioning to 5 days)
Duration: 9-month contract
Advantages
High-Profile Strategic Scope: Take direct technical ownership of privacy governance across vital, next-generation digital healthcare and public sector systems.
Diverse Solution Exposure: Expand your professional portfolio by auditing a unique blend of internal software assets and modern, third-party private sector application layers.
Autonomous Execution: Manage critical assessment tracks independently within a structured, mature enterprise delivery pipeline.
...
Professional Marketability: Deepen your expertise in high-demand, specialized compliance spaces (PHIPA/FIPPA) that interface directly with emerging cloud-native architectures.
Responsibilities
Privacy Impact Assessment Leadership: Lead the end-to-end development of PIAs to determine whether new technologies, cloud configurations, or business policies meet complex legal compliance requirements.
Risk Mitigation Engineering: Evaluate information architectures and digital solutions to identify privacy threat vectors, design security countermeasures, and author formal privacy risk registries.
Third-Party & Vendor Validation: Conduct rigorous privacy reviews on third-party application solutions, non-profit sector software providers, and external data service integration partners handling personal health information.
Data Flow & Systems Auditing: Analyze complex systemic data flows, information architectures, and identity verification mechanisms to assess the current and future privacy implications of system designs.
Policy Collaboration: Partner with policy development teams to review, compare, and draft privacy-enhancing guidelines, standard operating procedures, and governance baselines.
Records Governance Oversight: Ensure compliance with information management directories, including strict data classification, secure retention schedules, and legal data disposition procedures.
Cross-Functional Communication: Serve as a core advisor, translating dense legislative mandates and technical security patterns into plain language for executive sponsors, project managers, and business BAs.
Qualifications
Legislative Mastery: Comprehensive, professional-level knowledge of Canadian privacy frameworks, including FIPPA (and MFIPPA), PHIPA, and federal PIPEDA mandates, regulations, and associated jurisprudence.
Digital Solution Assessment: Proven experience leading and conducting formal PIAs specifically tailored to online ecosystems, cloud configurations, and complex digital platforms.
Health Information Expertise: Direct, hands-on experience managing assessments that involve Personal Health Information (PHI) crossing boundaries into third-party vendor applications or external systems.
Modeling Capability: Demonstrated ability to read, interpret, and validate high-level data flow diagrams (DFDs) and business process models to identify privacy vulnerabilities.
Interpersonal Skills: Elite consultation, negotiation, and report-writing capabilities, with a track record of driving cross-functional project teams toward a privacy consensus.
Compliance Framework Knowledge: Strong familiarity with internationally accepted Fair Information Practices and the operational rulings of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC).
Nice to Have: Prior experience navigating the Ontario Public Service (OPS) privacy impact assessment process, tools, or related public sector corporate governance.
Summary
If you're interested in the Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist role based in Toronto, we encourage you to apply online at www.randstad.ca. 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.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
This posting is for existing and upcoming vacancies.
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