[Hiring] Principal Privacy Biostatistician @Truveta

Role Description

We're looking for a principal-level statistical privacy expert who sets the direction for disclosure risk strategy across Truveta's entire data platform — structured, imaging, clinical notes, and emerging areas like genomic data.

This position is based out of our headquarters in the Greater Seattle area.

The Principal Privacy Biostatistician reports to the Senior Director of Risk Analytics and serves as the senior technical authority for statistical disclosure control across Truveta. This individual owns the de-identification methodology framework for the platform, signs Expert Determinations under 45 CFR §164.514(b)(1) for the highest-complexity, highest-visibility, and first-of-their-kind data products, and acts as the final reviewer and co-signer for determinations prepared by other members of the team.

Responsibilities:

• Set the vision and own the end-to-end statistical disclosure control framework for Truveta's data platform, defining the methodological standards, risk thresholds, and documentation requirements used by the entire Risk Analytics team.
• Serve as a signing Expert Determiner for the most complex, novel, and high-visibility data products, applying generally accepted statistical and scientific principles to determine that re-identification risk is "very small."
• Act as the final technical reviewer and co-signer for Expert Determinations prepared by Senior and staff Privacy Biostatisticians; establish and run the peer review and case-defense process that governs the team's signing authority.
• Lead the development of risk methodology for new and emerging data modalities (e.g., genomic data, linked multi-modality data, and AI/ML-derived data products).
• Own and continuously evolve profile-level risk justification methodology.
• Integrate Truveta's HIPAA Security Rule posture into Privacy Rule risk determinations.
• Partner with Legal/Contracts to define the organization's standards for supplementary recipient-side controls on higher-residual-risk modalities.
• Represent Truveta as the privacy statistics subject-matter expert with health system members, customers, auditors, and regulators.
• Mentor and develop Senior and staff Privacy Biostatisticians.
• Influence product and data strategy by identifying opportunities to improve data utility and usability.

Qualifications

• PhD in biostatistics, statistics, epidemiology, or related quantitative field; or Master's degree with equivalent depth of experience and demonstrated technical leadership.
• 10+ years of experience in statistical methods applied to patient health information.
• Prior formal Expert Determination signing experience under HIPAA.
• Proven track record of defining and implementing de-identification methodology at an organizational or platform level.
• Deep experience with multiple non-structured data modalities (imaging and/or clinical notes) in addition to structured EHR/claims data.
• Expert-level ability to reason across the HIPAA Privacy Rule / Security Rule boundary when estimating risk.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience analyzing Real World Data in a research setting.
• Demonstrated success mentoring senior technical staff.

Requirements

• Experience defending Expert Determinations in regulatory, audit, litigation, or expert-witness settings.
• Experience designing and governing process Expert Determinations at scale.
• Advanced hands-on experience with SDC tools such as sdcMicro.
• Working familiarity with clinical informatics standards (HL7, FHIR, DICOM PS3.15 Annex E).
• Hands-on experience with genomic data privacy.
• Record of peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, or contributions to industry standards in privacy.
• Experience building or leading a privacy statistics or risk analytics function.

Benefits

• Interesting and meaningful work for every career stage.
• Great benefits package.
• Comprehensive benefits with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans.
• 401K plan.
• Professional development & training opportunities for continuous learning.
• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off.
• Generous parental leave.
• Regular team activities (virtual and in-person).