American Express is looking for a Director of Data Risk Management, Reporting, and Testing to ensure compliance with the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy within the Enterprise Acquisition Products & Platforms (EAPP) organization. The role aims to identify critical data, maintain data definitions, classify data, support data requests, evaluate controls, and ensure data incidents are remediated, thereby driving consistency, usability, and governance of product data.
Requirements
- 8+ years of direct work experience in large scale/enterprise data projects, with at least 4 years of direct experience relating to creation and execution of formal data governance and/or data management programs
- Minimum 2 years expertise in data governance or related domain at a large financial institution
- Strong working knowledge of current and upcoming data governance, data management and data product techniques and trends, with a point of view on evolving concepts and standard methodologies
- Senior-level program management experience, with partners across a diverse, global set of business units
- Demonstrable experience driving meaningful improvements in business value through data management and strategy
- Ability to work with white space to design and complete solutions to solve sophisticated challenges
- Incident management and reporting, risk/data risk management, data architecture, data breach management, data classification and handling, data quality monitoring and improvement, and data governance/compliance management experience
Responsibilities
- Advance the established data governance principles, policies, and programs for stewardship, advocacy and custodianship of data
- Manage all Data Risks for the business unit, in coordination with relevant supporting roles, as described in the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy
- Understand, comply with, and execute role and responsibilities as defined under the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy
- Establish, maintain, and test the effectiveness of controls to manage data risk within established Data Risk Appetite limits
- Facilitate Data Incident capture and coordination by planning Data Incident remediation activities, monitoring Data Incident status for reporting, and supporting testing and validation
- Coordinate with Business Units and other Business Unit Data Offices to ensure system-level lineage is documented completely and accurately
- Partner closely with EAPP colleagues to establish and execute a multi-year roadmap based on enterprise data objectives
Other
- High-caliber communication skills, both in terms of preparing and delivering a strategic vision and updates to large audiences and senior leaders
- Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the U.S. is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.
