Risk Consultant

TEKsystems; College Park (MD); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance professional to monitor and protect their Data Resiliency Project. This non-technical role involves project execution, stakeholder collaboration, and ensuring data risk management practices are met. The position offers the flexibility of remote work until COVID restrictions lift, and aims at enhancing data resilience across various initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in controls standards, data management, and vendor engagement.
• Knowledge of data resiliency, corruption, lineage, and related technologies.
• Familiarity with agile/scrum methodologies preferred.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic vision for data corruption governance.
• Collaborating with technology teams to define target state requirements.
• Automating control processes and developing test protocols.

Skills

Data Management

Risk Assessment

Compliance Guidance

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Job description

Seeking a Governance, Risk, and Compliance resource for monitoring and protecting Wells Fargo’s Data Resiliency Project, focusing on proactive, passive, and replicated Data Corruption Monitoring. The role involves providing risk management and compliance guidance, supporting ongoing initiatives to improve preparedness and prevent large-scale data corruption incidents. The team is responsible for maturing data resiliency by delivering automation tools for data corruption detection. The candidate will collaborate with stakeholders, define solutions, manage delivery, and ensure alignment with policies on risk assessment and mitigation.

Responsibilities include:

1. Providing strategic vision for data corruption governance and securing stakeholder agreement.
2. Transforming functional requirements into detailed designs.
3. Collaborating with technology teams, including application owners and infrastructure teams, to define target state requirements.
4. Contributing to policy enhancements and data corruption mitigation strategies.
5. Partnering across lines of business to communicate requirements, risks, and track milestones.
6. Participating in discussions on data constraints and development playbooks.
7. Ensuring stakeholder engagement and coordination with attention to detail.
8. Defining and testing controls within the GRC system (Archer), and automating control processes.
9. Developing manual and automated processes for control testing, reporting, and issue escalation.
10. Creating training materials for governance models.
11. Applying project management and analysis skills in an agile environment.

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience in controls standards, data management, and vendor engagement.
• Knowledge of data resiliency, corruption, lineage, and related technologies.
• Familiarity with agile/scrum methodologies (preferred).
• Experience with monitoring tools like App Dynamics, New Relic, Data Dog, etc.

This is a non-technical role focused on project execution, working across strategic teams to drive project delivery. The position is remote until COVID restrictions lift, with potential onsite locations including Chandler, Des Moines, Dallas, Minneapolis, and Winston.

Start Date: ASAP

Impact: Help reduce data risk, prevent corruption, and ensure data resiliency.

Interview: 30-minute one-step interview.