Data Privacy Engineer

• Job Summary
• Hands-on Data Privacy / Data Catalog Engineer to support enterprise data discovery and governance with Informatica Cloud Data Governance & Catalog (CDGC) as the primary platform. The role focuses on source onboarding, scan configuration, catalog operations, and troubleshooting access/connectivity issues across AWS and multiple database technologies. The ideal candidate has strong experience setting up and operating CDGC scanners/connectors, partnering with DBAs/security teams to enable least-privilege access, and ensuring reliable metadata and classification coverage. Exposure to BigID is a plus.Key Responsibilities
• CDGC scanning & onboarding: Configure and operate CDGC metadata/data scans, schedules, scope rules, and performance-safe scan settings; onboard new sources end-to-end.
• Connection setup: Create and maintain secure connections (JDBC/ODBC/connectors), service accounts, and credential management for enterprise data platforms.
• Access troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve scan failures related to RBAC/privileges, expired credentials, TLS/certificates, drivers, firewall/ports, DNS, and network routes.
• Catalog operations: Curate catalog assets (domains, tags, ownership/stewardship), support glossary alignment, improve metadata quality, and ensure consistent taxonomy/naming standards.
• Sensitive data support: Assist with configuring and validating sensitive data identification/classification outcomes (PII/PHI/PCI) and reduce false positives/negatives in partnership with data owners.
• AWS support: Work within AWS environments to enable scanning connectivity (VPC/security groups, private endpoints/PrivateLink patterns where applicable) and support components running on EKS (logs, configs, secrets, scaling) when needed.
• Operational excellence: Provide scan coverage and health reporting, and support incident/problem management for catalog/scanning services.
• Required Qualifications
• Experience in data governance/catalog operations, privacy tooling, data engineering, or production support for data platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica CDGC (connectors/scanners, metadata ingestion, scan operations, troubleshooting).
• Experience integrating and troubleshooting connections to databases/platforms including DB2, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Snowflake.
• Strong SQL skills and ability to validate schemas, permissions, and scan behavior.
• Solid understanding of authentication/authorization concepts (least privilege, service accounts), secure credential handling, and basic network troubleshooting.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with BigID (discovery/classification, scan operations) in a supporting capacity.
• AWS experience, including EKS operational familiarity (Kubernetes basics, logs, secrets/config management).
• Working experience with Python scripting and regular expressions (regex) to automate onboarding/scan tasks and tune custom classification patterns.
• Key Skills
• Informatica CDGC (primary), scanning/connectors, catalog curation, access troubleshooting, AWS/EKS, DB2/Oracle/PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Snowflake, SQL, Python/regex (preferred).

• About Us
• Stratacent is an IT Managed Services firm, headquartered in Jersey City, NJ, with two global delivery centers and offices in New York City, India, London and Canada.
• We are a leading IT services provider focusing in Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare and Life Sciences. We help our customers in their digital transformation journey and provide solutions around Cloud Services, Automation, Data and Analytics, Application Development, IT Service Management and Cyber Security.
• We have partnerships with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Automation Anywhere, Snowflake and SAS.
• (To learn more: www.stratacent.com )

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Vision Plan
• Dental Plan
• Health Saving Account (HSA)
• Paid Time Off and Vacations
• 401K Plan
• Continuous Learning Program
• Stratacent is an equal opportunity employer. As such, to the extent defined by federal, state, and municipal law, Stratacent will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, handicap, or any other factor protected by law.