VP, Data Oversight

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Establishing the strategy and plan to oversee new and existing risks in Synchrony's Data Management and Technology data strategy.
• Lead cross-functional independent assessments of data and operational risks associated with data architecture, usage and sourcing and recommend risk mitigation strategies to data and technology leadership for migrating data warehouse, data lake applications, analytic products, platforms and workloads.
• Apply a risk-based approach to identify the organization's highest data risks and lead the independent assessment of the effectiveness of the corresponding control environment.
• Lead independent reviews and control validations of data architecture on public and private cloud data management platforms.
• Coordinate control validations for data security and data privacy such as access, encryption, data tokenization.
• Identify opportunities to enhance data controls to optimize data pipeline performance, scalability and cost-effectiveness across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with product owners, scrum masters, data engineers and architects to implement strategies and processes for identifying, assessing and mitigating data risks associated with the technical design and implementation.
• Partner with key control functions such as Compliance, Credit, Finance risk management teams to define coordinated approach for operational risk oversight activities related to data management across the enterprise.
• Understand risks associated with the use of public Cloud Service Providers (CSP's) and recommend risk mitigation strategies for application migration to the public cloud.
• Provide guidance and oversight to business partners on data related risks associated with the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence technologies.
• Stay up-to-date with latest data management concepts, technologies and best practices associated with data management.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of information technology, data governance experience managing data governance programs or risk management; or in lieu of a degree, 10+ years of experience in data management or risk management roles.
• Familiarity with modern data architectures like data Lakehouse, data mesh and data fabric.
• Experience in developing data pipelines on public cloud using AWS services S3, EMR and Redshift.
• 2+ years experience in SQL, Python and Spark.
• Working experience in any one of the ETL tools (Ab Initio, Informatica, AWS Glue, Fivetran, dbt).
• Familiarity with Data Management Controls and risks associated with these controls.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with distributed Agile teams.
• Experience in financial services or banking industry with understanding of financial services regulatory environment.
• In-depth understanding of risk management frameworks, processes, and best practices.

Nice to Have

• Leadership experience with senior management interaction, influencing, and communicating at all levels across the business.
• Proven experience leading complex, large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.
• Prior formal IT functional experience (e.g. business application management, IT architecture, enterprise infrastructure management, data architecture, information security, etc.).
• Familiarity with Data Management Controls.
• Industry certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Risk and Compliance - Specialty, AWS Certified Auditing and Governance, EDM Council DCAM, EDM Council CDMC).

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent (for eligibility requirements).

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of $130,000.00 - $210,000.00 USD annually, with eligibility for an annual bonus based on individual and company performance.
• Work from home, near one of our hubs, or in one of our offices with occasional in-person engagement activities.
• Diverse, inclusive culture with community and networking through 8 Diversity Networks.
• Consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.