Data Linkage Privacy Lead

Req ID: RQ213583 Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: BI Full 6C (T4) Job Family: Data Science and Data Engineering Skills: Collaborating,Data Privacy,Data Tokenization,Encryption,Record Linkage Experience: 7 + years of related experience Job Description: GDIT is seeking an experienced Privacy Preserving Record Linkage and Automation (PPRL-A) Technical Lead to serve as the handsu2011on technical lead for privacyu2011preserving record linkage automation within secure, cloudu2011hosted environments supporting a large federal data access and linkage initiative. This role leads design, implementation, and continuous improvement of automated, AI/MLu2011enabled PPRL solutions that link largeu2011scale federal and nonu2011federal data sources while maintaining strict privacy and security controls. The PPRL-A Technical Lead reports to the PPRL-A Program Manager and partners closely with data linkage, enclave, and program operations teams to ensure PPRL workflows are accurate, scalable, explainable, and integrated into operational linkage pipelines. How a PPRL-A Technical Lead Will Make an Impact + Lead design and implementation of PPRL architectures, algorithms, and workflows that support automated matching across multiple data sources with strong privacy protection and linkage quality. + Develop and refine AI/MLu2011enabled matching strategies, blocking schemes, and scoring methods, and ensure methods are documented, reproducible, and explainable for federal stakeholders. + Integrate PPRL pipelines with enclave and linkage platforms, including data ingestion, encryption, key management, job orchestration, and monitoring in secure, cloudu2011hosted environments. + Define and oversee quality assurance processes for PPRL, including error assessment, linkage validation, and production of methodology and performance reports. + Collaborate with privacy, security, and policy leads to ensure PPRL implementations align with applicable regulations, DUAs, governance decisions, and program risk tolerances. + Implement dashboards and metrics to track PPRL workloads, runtimes, match quality, and system performance, and drive continuous improvement based on operational and research needs. + Provide technical leadership, reviews, and mentoring for PPRL and linkage engineers and analysts, establishing reusable patterns, templates, and tools. What Youu2019ll Need to Succeed + Doctoral degree in a relevant field such as computer science, data science, biostatistics, epidemiology, bioinformatics, health services research, or a closely related discipline. + Deep knowledge of privacyu2011preserving record linkage methodologies and probabilistic and deterministic record linkage, including blocking, matching, scoring, and evaluation of linkage quality. + Handsu2011on experience implementing PPRL, linkage workflows, and automations in regulated data environments, preferably with health or administrative data at large scale. + Strong programming and data engineering skills in languages and platforms commonly used for largeu2011scale data processing and linkage. + Solid understanding of federal data security and privacy expectations, including handling of PII, tokenization, encryption, and deu2011identification in support of research use. + Broad technical background sufficient to work effectively with enclave, security, and data engineering teams in cloudu2011hosted environments. + At least 7 years of experience conducting and leading largeu2011scale linkage or PPRL projects for federal agencies, research organizations, or healthcare systems, including technicalu2011lead responsibilities. + Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear documentation of methods and findings for technical and nonu2011technical stakeholders. + Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher and authorization to work in the United States. + Willingness to travel 10u201325% to support onu2011site collaboration in the DC Metro area. Preferred + Experience designing or deploying fully automated PPRL solutions that integrate AI/ML, encryption, and scalable matching services in cloud environments. + Prior work with federal health or research agencies on data linkage, PPRL, and realu2011world data initiatives. + Familiarity with enclaveu2011based research environments, FISMA Moderate/FedRAMP Moderate contexts, and integration of PPRL into operational linkage pipelines. + Experience with dashboards and metrics for monitoring linkage and PPRL performance and quality. GDIT IS YOUR PLACE At GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do. + Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities. + Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals. + Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off. + Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home. + Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace. OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore a career in program management at GDIT and youu2019ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your passion for the mission and delivering results. The likely salary range for this position is $162,037 - $219,227. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employeeu2019s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most. We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. 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Created: 2026-02-02