Data Privacy Specialist Jobs in Texas
Data Privacy Specialist jobs in Texas are among the most active in the country, concentrated in financial services, healthcare, technology, and energy sectors that collectively handle enormous volumes of regulated data. Most openings are in Dallas, Austin, and Houston, where major employers like JPMorgan Chase, Dell Technologies, and the University of Texas System maintain large compliance and legal operations teams. Sub-specialties driving the strongest demand include GDPR and CCPA compliance, data governance program management, and privacy engineering. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Posted Date
7/07/2026
Description
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Job Summary
- Role Purpose
This role will design and implement scalable, AI-ready data privacy architecture across enterprise data environments, applications, and AI-enabled workflows.
The Principal Data Privacy Architect will serve as a hands-on subject matter expert responsible for embedding privacy-by-design, consent enforcement, data sovereignty, data loss prevention, and compliance controls into large, complex global data environments.
The architect will partner closely with Data Engineering, Cybersecurity, Legal, Privacy, AI Governance, Product, and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure customer, employee, partner, and sensitive enterprise data is accessed, processed, shared, retained, and protected in a compliant, secure, and trustworthy manner.
- Why This Role Matters
Architect for Trust & Scale: Build reusable privacy architecture patterns that enable secure, compliant, and scalable data usage across platforms, products, and regions.
Enable Responsible AI: Design privacy guardrails for AI agents, generative AI, RAG pipelines, model inputs and outputs, embeddings, vector stores, and automated data workflows.
Reduce Risk While Enabling Innovation: Translate privacy, consent, regulatory, and data sovereignty obligations into practical engineering controls that accelerate business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Think Customer First
Embed customer trust, transparency, and privacy-by-design principles into enterprise data platforms and customer-facing applications.
Design consent-aware data access and usage patterns across analytics, personalization, marketing, product telemetry, support, and AI use cases.
Ensure customer data is collected, processed, shared, retained, and deleted according to approved purposes, consent preferences, and regulatory obligations.
- Innovate for Growth
Architect reusable privacy engineering components, including APIs, SDKs, reference architectures, automation patterns, and policy-as-code controls.
Design privacy controls for AI agents and AI-enabled workflows that access, process, summarize, or publish sensitive data.
Build technical patterns for data minimization, anonymization, pseudonymization, tokenization, encryption, masking, and secure data sharing.
- Act with Integrity
Partner with Legal, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Compliance teams to translate global privacy regulations and internal policies into enforceable technical controls.
Support compliance with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, PIPL, India DPDP Act, data sovereignty mandates, cross-border transfer requirements, and regional data residency obligations.
Define auditable controls for consent enforcement, access monitoring, retention, deletion, lineage, and compliance evidence collection.
- Build for the Future
Establish privacy architecture patterns across data warehouses, lakehouses, metadata platforms, customer data platforms, AI/ML environments, vector databases, and cloud platforms.
Integrate sensitive data discovery, classification, lineage, DLP, DSPM, IAM, KMS, and monitoring capabilities into the enterprise data ecosystem.
Advance automated compliance monitoring, privacy control validation, and risk detection across the data lifecycle.
- Work as One Team
Collaborate with Data Engineering, Product, AI Governance, Cybersecurity, Legal, Privacy, and Enterprise Architecture teams to embed privacy controls into delivery workflows.
Provide hands-on architecture guidance for high-risk data initiatives, AI programs, customer data products, and platform modernization efforts.
Mentor engineers, architects, data scientists, and product teams on privacy engineering best practices.
Strategic & Technical Focus Areas
AI-Ready Privacy Architecture: Privacy controls for AI agents, generative AI, RAG pipelines, model inputs and outputs, embeddings, vector stores, and automated data workflows.
Consent & Purpose-Based Usage: Consent propagation, purpose limitation, consent revocation, customer preference enforcement, and downstream data usage controls.
Data Loss Prevention & Sensitive Data Protection: DLP integration, sensitive data classification, risky sharing detection, exfiltration prevention, and AI prompt/output inspection.
Data Sovereignty & Compliance Engineering: Regional data residency, cross-border transfer controls, localization requirements, encryption key residency, and audit evidence automation.
Reusable Privacy Frameworks: Standardized architecture patterns for encryption, masking, tokenization, anonymization, retention, deletion, access control, and monitoring.
Education & Experience & Skills
- Education & Experience
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, or related field.
10+ years of progressive experience in data privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, data architecture, or enterprise data platforms.
Proven experience architecting privacy and data protection solutions in large, complex, global environments.
Hands-on experience implementing privacy-by-design, consent management, data sovereignty, DLP, and sensitive data protection controls.
- Technical Expertise
Strong understanding of global privacy regulations and frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, LGPD, PIPL, India DPDP Act, NIST, ISO 27001, and related privacy/security standards.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and enterprise data platforms including data warehouses, lakehouses, data catalogs, metadata platforms, and big data environments.
Working knowledge of privacy and data protection technologies such as BigID, OneTrust, Securiti, Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, AWS Macie, Google Cloud DLP, Azure Information Protection, DLP, DSPM, CASB, IAM, and KMS capabilities.
Strong technical skills in Python, Java, SQL, APIs, Spark, data pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and policy-as-code.
Experience with AI/ML, generative AI, AI agents, RAG architectures, vector databases, feature stores, model governance, or AI-enabled data products.
- Leadership & Business Skills
Ability to translate legal, privacy, compliance, and business requirements into scalable technical architecture.
Strong communication and influencing skills with engineers, architects, legal teams, privacy teams, product leaders, and senior executives.
Demonstrated ability to balance customer trust, regulatory compliance, engineering practicality, and business agility.
- Preferred Qualifications
Certifications such as CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, CISSP, CCSP, CDPSE, or equivalent.
Experience building consent management platforms, privacy preference centers, data subject rights automation, or customer data governance capabilities.
Experience implementing purpose-based access control, attribute-based access control, zero-trust data architecture, or data-centric security models.
Active industry participation, publications, or memberships related to privacy engineering, AI governance, cybersecurity, or customer trust.
- Cross-Org Skills
Effective Communication
Results Orientation
Learning Agility
Digital Fluency
Customer Centricity
Salary
The pay range for this role is 154,400.00 - 227,750.00 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United
States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related
knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies, including;
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this
posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time,
with or without notice, subject to applicable law.
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HP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).
Please be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. The information obtained will be kept in strict confidence.
For more information, review HP’s EEO Policy or read about your rights as an applicant under the law here: “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal"
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What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in data privacy specialist jobs across Texas.
- Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) certification from the IAPP recognized by Texas employers
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, law, cybersecurity, or a related field required
- Experience drafting and implementing privacy policies, data processing agreements, and breach response plans
- Hands-on knowledge of CCPA, HIPAA, GLBA, or Texas Data Privacy and Security Act compliance frameworks
- Proficiency with data mapping tools, privacy management platforms such as OneTrust or TrustArc
- Strong cross-functional communication skills to advise legal, IT, and business teams on privacy risk
Data Privacy Specialist Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a data privacy specialist in Texas?
Most data privacy specialists in Texas enter the field with a bachelor's degree in law, information technology, cybersecurity, or a related discipline, then earn the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) credential from the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Texas does not require a state-issued license for this role, but the CIPP/US is the baseline credential Texas employers expect. Professionals with backgrounds in legal, compliance, or IT security often transition into privacy roles by taking on data governance responsibilities within their existing organizations.
Which companies hire data privacy specialists in Texas?
Companies currently hiring data privacy specialists in Texas include HP, PwC, and Lendistry, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Texas's dense concentration of financial institutions, hospital systems, and Fortune 500 headquarters makes it one of the most consistently active states for privacy hiring nationwide.
Which Texas cities have the most data privacy specialist jobs?
Dallas, Spring, and Austin account for the largest share of data privacy specialist openings in Texas. Dallas leads because of its high density of financial services firms, insurance carriers, and corporate headquarters, while Austin's technology sector and Houston's energy and healthcare industries each generate substantial demand for privacy compliance talent.
Are there remote data privacy specialist jobs in Texas?
Yes, and more than most fields. Data privacy work is predominantly analytical, policy-driven, and document-based, making it well suited to remote or hybrid arrangements. About 40% of data privacy specialist openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting how widely employers have accepted distributed privacy teams. Roles focused on policy drafting, compliance program management, and vendor assessment tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions requiring regular coordination with legal or IT infrastructure teams are more commonly hybrid.
How can I get hired as a data privacy specialist in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is moving laterally from a compliance, paralegal, IT audit, or information security role within a Texas employer that already has a privacy program. Large Texas healthcare systems such as Baylor Scott and White and major financial institutions like American Airlines Federal Credit Union hire compliance associates and privacy analysts who support senior specialists and build hands-on experience. Earning the IAPP's Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT) or completing a privacy-focused concentration within a Texas law school or information systems graduate program signals seriousness to hiring managers when direct experience is limited.
Where can I find and apply to data privacy specialist jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to data privacy specialist jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings across industries and experience levels. Find roles that fit your background and apply directly to each one.
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