Apple

Privacy Architect

Apple
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Cupertino, CA, USAStaff+
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Responsibilities

  • Own privacy architecture, standards, technical decisions, and the multi-year privacy roadmap for Wallet, Payments, and Commerce.
  • Define approaches to data collection, processing, retention, protection, user consent, data minimization, logging architecture, and privacy risk.
  • Lead through influence across senior engineers, compliance practitioners, legal, product, engineering leadership, and central privacy teams.
  • Translate global privacy requirements into engineering decisions and evaluate existing and new offerings against privacy standards.
  • Provide frameworks, escalation judgment, executive briefings, and regulator-facing materials.
  • Represent engineering in regulatory engagements, partner privacy reviews, and industry working groups.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or related architecture roles.
  • Deep expertise in privacy engineering, including data minimization, consent architecture, logging design, and privacy-preserving patterns at production scale.
  • Command of global regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, with the ability to translate them into engineering decisions.
  • Track record of defining standards or platforms adopted across large, complex engineering organizations.
  • Ability to lead through influence and make defensible architectural decisions under regulatory ambiguity.
  • Experience using generative AI to build tools, automate risk identification, or accelerate workflows in regulated environments.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication, including executive briefings and regulator-facing materials.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred experience includes payments or financial-services domains, audit expectations, partner privacy requirements, NIST, SOC 2, ISO 27001, shared privacy platforms, consent management, PII detection, and data lineage.

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About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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