Senior Data Risk & Governance Analyst

Financeroles; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Life is seeking a Data Risk Analyst to advance its enterprise data risk program by developing and maintaining frameworks, metrics, reporting, and processes used to identify, measure, monitor, and mitigate data risk. Partner with data owners, stewards, technology, risk, and compliance to strengthen data risk practices.

The role will operationalize KRIs/KPIs, maintain the data risk register, produce risk dashboards, and support remediation across cloud data environments.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional experience in data governance, risk management, or related field.
• Experience designing and operating KRI/KPI frameworks with thresholds and reporting.
• Strong analytical skills; able to translate data into risk narratives and dashboards.
• Working knowledge of data governance concepts and tools (data quality, lineage, metadata).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across data, tech, risk, and governance teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, CS, Data Science, Business, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operationalize enterprise data risk frameworks and taxonomy; collaborate with risk, compliance, legal, technology, and data stakeholders.
• Define, measure, and communicate data risk; establish KRIs and KPIs, thresholds, and reporting methodologies; maintain risk register and dashboards.
• Drive risk mitigation and remediation; track findings, exceptions, and corrective actions; support risk acceptance and escalation processes.
• Advance data protection and governance across cloud data platforms; support data protection, classification, quality, lineage, metadata, and monitoring capabilities.
• Build data risk awareness; enable governance committees and training; contribute to Agile delivery and priority management.

Skills

Data governance

Data risk management

Enterprise risk management

KRI/KPI frameworks

Stakeholder management

SQL

Tableau

GRC tools

Data quality

Data lineage

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Business, or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SharePoint

GRC platforms

Atlan

Anomalo

Collibra

AWS

GCP

Job description

New York Life is seeking a Data Risk Analyst to advance its enterprise data risk program by developing and maintaining frameworks, metrics, reporting, and processes used to identify, measure, monitor, and mitigate data risk. Partner with data owners, stewards, technology, risk, and compliance to strengthen data risk practices.

The role will operationalize KRIs/KPIs, maintain the data risk register, produce risk dashboards, and support remediation across cloud data environments.