Senior Data Risk Strategist - Hybrid NYC

Burtch Works; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Burtch Works seeks a Sr Data Risk Analyst in New York City to lead enterprise data risk initiatives within Data Governance and Data Risk Management. You will develop frameworks, metrics, and reporting to identify, assess, and monitor data-related risks.

The role partners with data owners, IT, Compliance, and Legal to translate technical findings into actionable risk insights, maintaining risk registers and KRIs while guiding remediation and governance activities in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional experience in data governance, data risk management, or related risk disciplines.
• Experience developing, maintaining, or operationalizing risk frameworks, taxonomies, assessments, or risk registers.
• Hands-on experience defining and monitoring KRIs and KPIs, including thresholds, reporting methodologies, escalation criteria, and remediation tracking.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate risk exposure, identify trends, assess control gaps, and communicate actionable findings.
• Experience using SQL, Tableau, Power BI, or comparable tools to analyze data and build risk dashboards and management reporting.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Business, Risk Management, or related field.
• Preferred: experience in financial services, insurance, or regulated industries; familiarity with GLBA, NYDFS Part 500, CCPA, or HIPAA; and data governance platforms.

Responsabilités

• Develop, maintain, and operationalize the enterprise data risk taxonomy, including risk categories, definitions, and assessment criteria.
• Support structured data risk assessments of data assets, processes, and platforms, evaluating inherent risk based on data sensitivity, business criticality, and exposure.
• Refresh residual risk scores using assessment results, control testing results, and metric trends, and rank risks by residual score to support prioritization.
• Provide input on control effectiveness and on how open control gaps affect the overall data risk level.
• Maintain the target-state control catalog and its mapping to the risk register.
• Support the review of risk appetite statements and tolerance thresholds, including preparing materials for appetite workshops.
• Align data risk practices with enterprise risk frameworks and applicable regulatory requirements, in partnership with Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, and Legal.
• Identify emerging data risks and recurring control gaps, including risks from Generative AI, large language models, and model data.
• Define and operationalize data risk KRIs and KPIs, including metric definitions, thresholds, escalation triggers, ownership, and reporting methodologies.
• Maintain the enterprise data risk register, documenting risks, assessments, ownership, mitigation plans, and status.
• Evaluate the feasibility of sourcing candidate metrics and establish repeatable sourcing patterns that reduce manual effort in risk reporting.
• Analyze risk trends and concentrations, and build dashboards, scorecards, and management reporting on risk exposure, control gaps, and remediation progress.
• Translate complex technical findings into clear risk narratives for governance forums and senior management.

Connaissances

SQL

Tableau

Power BI

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Description du poste

Burtch Works seeks a Sr Data Risk Analyst in New York City to lead enterprise data risk initiatives within Data Governance and Data Risk Management. You will develop frameworks, metrics, and reporting to identify, assess, and monitor data-related risks.

The role partners with data owners, IT, Compliance, and Legal to translate technical findings into actionable risk insights, maintaining risk registers and KRIs while guiding remediation and governance activities in a hybrid environment.