Accelyst

Accelyst is an innovative AI Consultancy delivering AI-driven, secure, and scalable technology solutions that help organizations accelerate digital transformation and maximize business value.

Why Accelyst?

Join a collaborative team where innovation, quality, and continuous improvement drive everything we do. You'll work on enterprise-scale applications supporting government initiatives while leveraging modern testing practices, Agile methodologies, and data validation techniques.

Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist

Duration: 12 Months

Work Model: Hybrid (5 Days Onsite Required)

Rate: Competitive

Overview The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist will lead and support the development of Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) for digital programs, technologies, and information systems. The role involves evaluating privacy risks, ensuring compliance with applicable privacy legislation and policies, recommending mitigation strategies, and providing privacy and data governance advisory services.

The successful candidate will possess strong expertise in privacy legislation, digital identity ecosystems, consent management frameworks, security and privacy-by-design principles, and decentralized identity technologies, including Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) and Verifiable Credentials.

Mandatory Qualifications

Privacy & Compliance

- Extensive experience conducting Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) involving:
- Personal Information (PI)
- Personal Health Information (PHI)
- Digital, online, and mobile solutions
- Strong knowledge of privacy legislation and regulatory frameworks, including:
- Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation
- Personal Health Information Protection legislation
- Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents legislation
- Experience working with legal and policy teams to assess legislative, regulatory, compliance, and privacy requirements.
- Experience developing privacy-enhancing policies, frameworks, tools, and methodologies.
- Experience developing and implementing consent management frameworks, policies, and supporting business practices.

Digital Identity & Credential Ecosystems

- Strong understanding of credential-holder-centric ecosystems, including:
- Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
- Verifiable Credentials
- Digital Identity Platforms
- Digital Wallets
- Experience conducting privacy reviews and assessments involving decentralized credential systems.
- Knowledge of privacy-preserving technologies including:
- Selective Disclosure
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP)
- Decentralized Identity Models





Security & Technology

- Demonstrated experience with privacy and security assessments involving:
- Mobile applications
- Web applications
- Cloud solutions
- API integrations
- Legacy system integrations
- Strong understanding of:
- Encryption technologies
- Identity and Access Management
- Information Security principles
- Privacy by Design methodologies
- Knowledge of security and privacy considerations for:
- Mobile digital wallets
- Cloud-based wallet technologies
- Data synchronization and information-sharing environments

Privacy Governance & Data Management

- Experience establishing privacy and data governance functions.
- Ability to develop:
- Privacy governance frameworks
- Data governance operating models
- Privacy controls and standards
- Risk management processes
- Experience developing KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms.

Key Responsibilities

Privacy Impact Assessments

- Lead and conduct Privacy Impact Assessments for new and existing programs, technologies, and services.
- Identify privacy risks and recommend mitigation strategies.
- Assess compliance with applicable legislation, policies, standards, and privacy principles.
- Review architecture, process flows, integrations, and business requirements to identify privacy implications.

Consent Management & Governance

- Develop consent management frameworks and supporting operational models.
- Define privacy requirements and governance practices for digital identity solutions.
- Support the creation of privacy-enhancing tools, processes, and controls.

Digital Identity & Credential Services

- Assess privacy implications of digital credential ecosystems.
- Provide advisory services on decentralized identity models, digital wallets, and credential frameworks.
- Evaluate privacy protections associated with verifiable credentials and digital identity technologies.

Policy and Legislative Support

- Provide guidance on privacy legislation and regulatory compliance.
- Support development of policy, governance, and regulatory instruments related to digital identity and privacy.
- Recommend approaches that align with broader organizational and government privacy initiatives.





Stakeholder Engagement

- Lead workshops and discovery sessions with business, technical, legal, and security stakeholders.
- Present findings, recommendations, and risk assessments to senior leadership and executives.
- Translate complex technical and privacy issues into transparent business-focused recommendations.

Required Skills

Privacy & Legislative Knowledge

- Expert knowledge of privacy legislation, privacy principles, and privacy risk management.
- Experience conducting PIAs involving personal and health information.
- Knowledge of privacy-enhancing technologies and best practices.
- Familiarity with records management, retention, disposition, and information governance principles.

Technical Knowledge

- Understanding of:
- Information Security
- System Architecture
- Cloud Technologies
- API Integrations
- Mobile Technologies
- Data Flows and Process Design
- Ability to create and interpret:
- Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)
- Business Process Diagrams
- Architecture Documentation

Communication & Leadership

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation abilities.
- Experience leading workshops, assessments, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Ability to communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

- Public sector experience.
- Professional certifications related to privacy, security, architecture, governance, or risk management.
- Experience delivering privacy training and awareness programs.
- Knowledge of digital trust frameworks such as:
- Pan-Canadian Trust Framework (PCTF)
- eIDAS
- Other digital identity trust frameworks
- Familiarity with standards and frameworks such as:
- NIST
- W3C Verifiable Credentials
- Digital Identity and Credential Standards

Evaluation Criteria

Privacy Assessment, Consent Management & Regulatory Expertise (35%)

- Privacy legislation expertise.
- PIA leadership experience.
- Consent management frameworks.
- Digital identity privacy advisory experience.

Technical Understanding (25%)

- Mobile, cloud, API, and integration environments.
- Security, encryption, and privacy controls.
- Digital wallets and decentralized identity technologies.

Leadership & Communication (25%)

- Stakeholder engagement.
- Workshop facilitation.
- Executive presentations.
- Documentation and reporting.

Digital Credential Frameworks & Standards (15%)

- Trust frameworks.
- Digital credential standards.
- SSI, Verifiable Credentials, consent, and privacy governance.

📌 Senior Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Specialist (Toronto)
🏢 Accelyst
📍 Toronto