We are seeking a highly accomplished and authoritative Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier leadership capacity to oversee, design, and execute comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) that evaluate whether new technologies, complex information systems, and digital initiatives meet all governing legal and policy privacy frameworks.
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As a principal privacy strategist, you will bridge the gap between technical system architecture and legislative compliance. Operating entirely onsite, you will evaluate sophisticated cloud, web, and mobile solutions, identify structural data risks, and develop robust mitigation strategies. This role demands an expert who can confidently direct discovery sessions, manage multiple concurrent privacy streams, and translate complex compliance mandates into actionable guidance for senior executives and technology partners.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
High-Impact Governance Ownership: Direct the privacy strategy for high-visibility digital identity systems, web channels, and public-facing software modernizations.
Advanced Technology Exposure: Deepen your expertise evaluating elite digital wallet architectures, modern API networks, and cutting-edge trust frameworks.
Executive Advisory Visibility: Act as the primary authority on privacy, presenting risk findings and strategic solutions directly to steering committees and senior executives.
Stable Project Pipeline: Anchor your career with a premium, long-term onsite contract footprint backed by a strong potential for extension.
Responsibilities
PIA Technical Leadership: Lead and manage the end-to-end development of comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) to evaluate whether new software, platforms, programs, or corporate policies meet absolute statutory privacy requirements.
Risk Mitigation Engineering: Analyze current and future privacy implications for business designs, systematically identifying operational data risks, vulnerabilities, and authoring formal risk countermeasure playbooks.
Legislative Compliance Guarding: Ensure all technical platforms and programs comply with provincial, municipal, federal, and private-sector privacy laws, relevant regulations, and internationally accepted Fair Information Practices.
Digital Solution Assessment: Lead privacy reviews for modern online, cloud-hosted, and mobile application solutions, focusing heavily on security approaches, data encryption, and local protection frameworks.
Integration & Architecture Review: Assess privacy risks associated with data synchronization and backend integrations via APIs connecting legacy environments to third-party or private-sector applications.
Data Flow & Blueprint Analysis: Interpret both technical and non-technical documentation, including architectural design documents, state transition diagrams, system interfaces, and data flow models.
Stakeholder Engagement & Discovery: Lead cross-functional discovery workshops with technical architects, developers, legal analysts, and business teams to elicit precise technical configurations and operational workflows.
Executive Presentation & Reporting: Document clear assessment findings and present strategic compliance recommendations to executive leadership to inform high-level corporate decision-making.
Records Governance Lifecycle: Align system designs with strict records management policies, ensuring proper data classification, retention schedules, and secure disposition parameters.
Qualifications
Core Privacy & Legislative Requirements
Statutory Framework Mastery: Deep operational knowledge and hands-on experience interpreting and applying privacy legislation, specifically including FIPPA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA, alongside related jurisprudence.
Privacy Assessment Depth: Extensive track record leading complex Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) within the public sector or large, highly regulated multi-stakeholder corporate settings.
Digital Identity Frameworks: Practical experience evaluating or developing digital identity trust frameworks (such as PCTF, eIDAS) and standard protocols (NIST, FIDO, OpenID Connect, SAML).
Healthcare & Third-Party Domain Insight: Direct experience managing assessments that involve personal health information handled by third-party vendor applications or service integration providers.
Technical & System Capabilities
Architecture Interrogation: Strong ability to analyze technical system diagrams, database interfaces, data transfer methodologies, and information security encryption standards.
Mobile & Cloud Platform Savvy: Deep understanding of the unique security and privacy constraints associated with mobile applications, cloud infrastructures, and native or third-party digital wallet technologies.
Records Management: Solid understanding of institutional records management practices, including information classification, retention rules, and digital accessibility compliance standards (AODA).
Leadership & Consultation Skills
Workshop Facilitation: Elite communication skills with a proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through complex technical discovery sessions.
Analytical Problem Solving: Superior critical thinking skills to interpret intricate technical setups and translate them into simplified, fact-based risk summaries for non-privacy experts.
Desirable Credentials: Active professional certifications in related disciplines (e.g., IAPP CIPP/C, technical architecture, or information security designations) are highly valued.
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 a highly accomplished and authoritative Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist for an enterprise-level contract opportunity based in Toronto. In this role, you will take on a premier leadership capacity to oversee, design, and execute comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) that evaluate whether new technologies, complex information systems, and digital initiatives meet all governing legal and policy privacy frameworks.
As a principal privacy strategist, you will bridge the gap between technical system architecture and legislative compliance. Operating entirely onsite, you will evaluate sophisticated cloud, web, and mobile solutions, identify structural data risks, and develop robust mitigation strategies. This role demands an expert who can confidently direct discovery sessions, manage multiple concurrent privacy streams, and translate complex compliance mandates into actionable guidance for senior executives and technology partners.
Location: Toronto, ON
Assignment Type: Onsite (5 days/week)
Contract Duration: 6 months (with potential for extension)
Advantages
...
High-Impact Governance Ownership: Direct the privacy strategy for high-visibility digital identity systems, web channels, and public-facing software modernizations.
Advanced Technology Exposure: Deepen your expertise evaluating elite digital wallet architectures, modern API networks, and cutting-edge trust frameworks.
Executive Advisory Visibility: Act as the primary authority on privacy, presenting risk findings and strategic solutions directly to steering committees and senior executives.
Stable Project Pipeline: Anchor your career with a premium, long-term onsite contract footprint backed by a strong potential for extension.
Responsibilities
PIA Technical Leadership: Lead and manage the end-to-end development of comprehensive Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) to evaluate whether new software, platforms, programs, or corporate policies meet absolute statutory privacy requirements.
Risk Mitigation Engineering: Analyze current and future privacy implications for business designs, systematically identifying operational data risks, vulnerabilities, and authoring formal risk countermeasure playbooks.
Legislative Compliance Guarding: Ensure all technical platforms and programs comply with provincial, municipal, federal, and private-sector privacy laws, relevant regulations, and internationally accepted Fair Information Practices.
Digital Solution Assessment: Lead privacy reviews for modern online, cloud-hosted, and mobile application solutions, focusing heavily on security approaches, data encryption, and local protection frameworks.
Integration & Architecture Review: Assess privacy risks associated with data synchronization and backend integrations via APIs connecting legacy environments to third-party or private-sector applications.
Data Flow & Blueprint Analysis: Interpret both technical and non-technical documentation, including architectural design documents, state transition diagrams, system interfaces, and data flow models.
Stakeholder Engagement & Discovery: Lead cross-functional discovery workshops with technical architects, developers, legal analysts, and business teams to elicit precise technical configurations and operational workflows.
Executive Presentation & Reporting: Document clear assessment findings and present strategic compliance recommendations to executive leadership to inform high-level corporate decision-making.
Records Governance Lifecycle: Align system designs with strict records management policies, ensuring proper data classification, retention schedules, and secure disposition parameters.
Qualifications
Core Privacy & Legislative Requirements
Statutory Framework Mastery: Deep operational knowledge and hands-on experience interpreting and applying privacy legislation, specifically including FIPPA, PHIPA, and PIPEDA, alongside related jurisprudence.
Privacy Assessment Depth: Extensive track record leading complex Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) within the public sector or large, highly regulated multi-stakeholder corporate settings.
Digital Identity Frameworks: Practical experience evaluating or developing digital identity trust frameworks (such as PCTF, eIDAS) and standard protocols (NIST, FIDO, OpenID Connect, SAML).
Healthcare & Third-Party Domain Insight: Direct experience managing assessments that involve personal health information handled by third-party vendor applications or service integration providers.
Technical & System Capabilities
Architecture Interrogation: Strong ability to analyze technical system diagrams, database interfaces, data transfer methodologies, and information security encryption standards.
Mobile & Cloud Platform Savvy: Deep understanding of the unique security and privacy constraints associated with mobile applications, cloud infrastructures, and native or third-party digital wallet technologies.
Records Management: Solid understanding of institutional records management practices, including information classification, retention rules, and digital accessibility compliance standards (AODA).
Leadership & Consultation Skills
Workshop Facilitation: Elite communication skills with a proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams through complex technical discovery sessions.
Analytical Problem Solving: Superior critical thinking skills to interpret intricate technical setups and translate them into simplified, fact-based risk summaries for non-privacy experts.
Desirable Credentials: Active professional certifications in related disciplines (e.g., IAPP CIPP/C, technical architecture, or information security designations) are highly valued.
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.
show more
