Director - Data Risk Management & Oversight

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?  

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets.  We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact.  We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits 
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee). 

The Impact you will have in this role:

In this Director-level role, you will lead the Data Risk Management Policy and Procedure team to advance DTCC’s strategic priorities and strengthen its data risk management posture through robust second-line oversight of disciplined data risk execution across the data lifecycle. You will drive a cohesive policy and operating framework that enables clear accountability, informed decision-making, and consistent adherence to data risk and data governance standards across the first line. By providing senior-level effective challenge, surfacing and prioritizing material issues and exceptions, and orchestrating audit and assurance activities, you will improve risk transparency, regulatory readiness, and the pace of remediation. Through leadership of cross-control-function forums and ongoing maturity assessments, you will align stakeholders on strategic priorities and measurable outcomes - raising data management capability and resilience to protect DTCC, its clients, and the markets it serves.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of DRM’s formal documents (Policy, Procedures, Framework, Roadmap, and Charters), including control function and stakeholder communications and engagement.
• Mediate all data risk–related audit activities, ensuring effective coordination, clear accountability, timely remediation, and consistent senior management escalation of material findings.
• Identify, document, manage, and escalate Data Risk Management issues and exceptions. 
• Conduct evaluations of the Data Governance framework to ensure data management capabilities and practices are effectively operating at satisfactory maturity levels across DTCC, in alignment with industry’s best practices.
• Serve as DRM’s Embedded Risk Manager, overseeing processes such as Management Control Testing, Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA), and Business Continuity planning.
• Facilitate a Data Risk Working Group across control functions: set priorities, manage agenda, and execute action items as needed.
• Oversee management and communication of other DRM business activities such as required training, and SharePoint site design, content, and access.

**NOTE:  The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in data risk management, data governance, risk management, audit, or related discipline
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (master’s, MBA, or equivalent experience) is a plus

Talents Needed for Success:

• Exhibit passion for data management, complemented by a strong understanding of core principles and techniques
• Strong business acumen, analytical and critical‑thinking capability
• Demonstrated success leading and developing a high‑performing team, fostering capability, accountability, and a culture of excellence.
• Outstanding interpersonal, collaborative and strategic leadership skills with proven ability to develop and articulate a vision in written, verbal, and presentation materials
• Experience in the financial services industry or other complex, regulated environments
• Engagement leveraging data management frameworks such as DCAM or CDMC 
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