Privacy Management & Data Protection Topics
Privacy compliance, data protection frameworks, privacy incident investigation, and regulatory requirements. Covers privacy impact assessments, data classification, regulatory interpretation, and privacy-first operational practices.
Security and Privacy in Product and Program Design
How to integrate security and privacy into product and program planning. Includes mapping data flows through systems, identifying where personally identifiable information is created and stored, applying privacy by design principles such as data minimization and lifecycle management, specifying compliance requirements like GDPR or industry specific regulations, and planning access controls and auditability. Also covers how security and privacy requirements constrain scope, timelines, resourcing, and cross functional collaboration and when to escalate to specialist teams.
Company Privacy Landscape
Demonstrate company specific understanding of privacy and data protection considerations. This covers the organization public privacy commitments, data handling scale and types, major privacy initiatives, known privacy risks or incidents, applicable privacy regulations for their markets and products, data governance practices, and how privacy requirements influence product design, analytics, and third party integrations. Interviewers look for evidence you researched the company privacy context and can discuss implications for compliance, user trust, and practical privacy engineering or policy tradeoffs.
Privacy Solution Design
Designing privacy focused technical and operational solutions that protect personal and sensitive data across the system lifecycle. Candidates should be able to specify appropriate technical privacy controls such as encryption at rest and in transit, strong authentication and role based access controls, anonymization and pseudonymization techniques, data minimization strategies, tokenization, and differential privacy approaches. They should also cover operational controls and processes including audit trails and logging, data retention and deletion policies, secure data handling procedures, vendor and third party data management, data subject request handling, and incident response for privacy breaches. Good answers connect privacy controls to system components, explain trade offs between usability and risk, demonstrate threat modeling and risk assessment for different data types and regulatory contexts, and describe how to operationalize privacy by design and privacy engineering practices within delivery teams.