Hybrid Data Security & Governance Analyst (NY)

Axiom Path, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Axiom Path, Inc. is leading a hybrid contract opportunity in New York, NY, to strengthen enterprise data security governance within a regulated financial services environment.

You will collaborate with cybersecurity, privacy, risk, legal, and technology teams to implement data protection controls and governance frameworks across the data lifecycle. You will contribute to policy development, control validation, regulatory reporting, and executive-level documentation, building maturity in data

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience supporting data security governance, information protection, or related cybersecurity governance programs.
• Experience in a regulated environment, ideally financial services or banking.
• Strong knowledge of data classification, data loss prevention, encryption, secure data handling, key management, and data lifecycle protection.
• Familiarity with governance frameworks, policy lifecycle management, risk assessments, control validation, audit responses, and regulatory reporting.
• Understanding of enterprise data environments, IAM, and security architecture as they relate to data protection.
• Ability to translate policy language into actionable controls and governance guidance.
• Strong documentation, reporting, stakeholder communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to manage cross-functional coordination across cybersecurity, data governance, privacy, legal, risk, and technology teams.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, maintenance, and rollout of data security governance policies and standards.
• Help define governance requirements for protecting sensitive data across internal platforms and third-party relationships.
• Support data classification efforts by establishing handling, retention, encryption, and protection requirements.
• Partner with cybersecurity, privacy, data governance, legal, risk, and technology teams to translate policy requirements into practical controls.
• Assist with control validation, audit requests, regulatory support, and governance reporting related to data protection and information security.
• Prepare clear documentation, guidance, reporting, and executive-ready materials explaining complex data security requirements.

Skills

Data governance

Information security

Regulatory compliance

Data classification

Policy translation to controls

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Axiom Path, Inc. is leading a hybrid contract opportunity in New York, NY, to strengthen enterprise data security governance within a regulated financial services environment.

You will collaborate with cybersecurity, privacy, risk, legal, and technology teams to implement data protection controls and governance frameworks across the data lifecycle. You will contribute to policy development, control validation, regulatory reporting, and executive-level documentation, building maturity in data