Data Risk Senior Manager at Judge Group

Job Title : SENIOR DATA RISK MANAGER

Location: Columbus, Ohio/ Minneapolis, MN/ Plymouth, MN (3 days Onsite and 2 days Remote)

Contract: Open for W2 only

Responsibilities:

• Leads and develops a team of Data Risk Analysts

• Sets the strategy and tone for data policy, standards, and controls strategy and vision for the future

• Identifies the roles, skills, and knowledge required to achieve organizational goals, and forecasts

New skill requirements

• Leads the evaluation of tools with key stakeholders across varying management levels

• Plans and ensures the execution of work, and achievement of team goals

• Manages and develops a highly successful team of Data Governance professionals

• Works closely and manages relationships with internal partners in Audit, Compliance, Risk, and Legal to identify and define data policies, standards, and controls to enable broader use of data.

• Lead the Data Risk team to build upon extensible frameworks and existing data rules, including the capture of localized requirements determined by local Policy Groups.

• Support the creation of new processes and end-to-end design of various components within the Data Governance capability

• Manage the creation and maintenance of a process and repository for the documentation of governance best practices

Internal Use

• Manage the implementation of an ongoing communication plan to educate key stakeholders on the Data Governance framework

• Develops and tracks key metrics to measure the success of aspects of the Data Governance framework

• Lead data management teams on the implementation of data quality, metadata, and lineage, data sourcing and usage, data issue management requirements

• Tracking and monitoring the implementation of data controls across the organization

• Provides leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members and develop team to work with all areas of the organization

• Works with stakeholders to ensure that business needs are clearly understood and that services meet those needs.

• Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology while assessing the emerging technology’s impact with regards to data policies and guidelines

• Coaches' individuals through change and serves as a role model

Skills:

• Ability to effectively drive Data Governance strategy

• Expert knowledge of governance policy, standards, and controls processes

• Ability to constructively challenge requirements and current state to increase overall value to the organization

• Well-versed with latest data policy decisions, guidelines, and business trends

• Able to translate long-term visions into actionable roadmaps that are broadly accepted

• Ability to translate business and functional needs into policy, standards, and controls requirements, and estimate their impact across the data lifecycle

• Excellent partnership and collaboration skills, including the ability to work in a cross-functional manner with business and technology stakeholders

• Excellent executive communication and business writing skills, including ability to draft business requirements

• Strong ability to rapidly comprehend the changes to key business processes and the impact on the overall Data Governance framework

• In-depth understanding of the business objectives of business segments and how our Data Policy & Standards support those objectives

• Strong ability to analyze complex situations and to derive workable actions

• Strong ability to identify, prioritize and weigh different options and to recommend value-add solutions

• Ability to build strong relationships throughout the organization

• High level of organization and attention to detail

• Negotiation, influencing, and partnership skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Business outcome focused

• Demonstrated perseverance

• Proven ability to lead successful teams

• Ability to train less experienced colleagues regarding day-to-day activities

Internal Use

Experience:

• 10+ years of experience implementing data governance frameworks (e.g., data policies, standards, and controls), experience developing and/or implementing data governance policy and standards, experience working with IT and/or business segments on the analysis of complex business processes and data governance needs, and leading successful teams.

• Technical leadership and management experience on data-centric efforts.

• Prior experience in risk management and/or regulatory compliance.

• Prior experience communicating with regulators.

• Experienced working with IT on the analysis of complex business processes and data governance needs and development of solutions and re-engineering opportunities.

• Experience developing and monitoring the delivery of efficient and effective processes to solve diverse and complex data problems

• Proven Track record within Data Governance with influencing the overall direction of data policies, standards, and controls, and data lifecycle management

• Risk management, regulatory, compliance, and/or audit experience

• Experience in strategy, process improvement, management consulting is a plus

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience