Risk Manageement Lead
Wavicle Data Solutions, United States
Job Description
About Us:
Wavicle designs and delivers data and analytics solutions to reduce time, cost, and risk of companies’ data projects, improving the quality of their analytics and decisions now and into the future. As a privately held consulting service organization with popular, name brand clients across multiple industries, Wavicle offers exciting opportunities for data scientists, solutions architects, developers, and consultants to jump right in and contribute to meaningful, innovative solutions.
Our 250+ local, nearshore and offshore consultants, data architects, cloud engineers, and developers build cost-effective, right-fit solutions leveraging our team’s deep business acumen and knowledge of cutting-edge data and analytics technology and frameworks.
At Wavicle, you’ll find a challenging and rewarding work environment where we enjoy working as a team to exceed client expectations. Employees appreciate being part of something meaningful at Wavicle. Wavicle has been recognized by industry leaders as follows:
- Chicago Tribune’s Top Workplaces
- Inc 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in the US
- Crain’s Fast 50 fastest growing companies in the Chicago area
- Talend Expert Partner recognition
- Microsoft Gold Data Platform competency
About the Role:
The Risk Management Lead will join the Risk Management team of Risk and Privacy Professionals to assess and manage risk, in order to protect user data. This role requires this individual to work closely with internal partners to identify, measure and manage privacy risks associated with their environments. The ideal individual will have proven risk management skills, patience, attention to detail, self-motivated, and collaborative.
Responsibilities:
- Support the design, build, and execution of risk management programs, including risk assessments, risk modeling, risk treatment strategies, reporting, and monitoring.
- Interpret data processing activities, systems, and operational practices in order to understand and interpret our risk environment.
- Conduct risk assessments by analyzing the current risks and identifying potential risks that are affecting the business and product groups.
- Perform risk evaluation across the company’s business and product groups handling of risks.
- Prepare reports of identified and assessed risks to the management team.
- Support the process for determining appropriate risk tolerance across our risk profile.
- Providing thought partnership, risk analytics (e.g. return on Risk Mitigation investments), and recommendations around remediation, risk mitigation, or process improvement to risk owners, Compliance, or other control-related functions, as well as leadership.
- Consult and coordinate with the Compliance team on the creation and monitoring of risk mitigation or treatment plans.
- Effectively communicate and interface with internal stakeholders, as well as colleagues and business partners.
- Exercise excellent people skills, be a team player with a bias to action.
- Be motivated by the opportunity to solve privacy problems within an operations environment.
Required Knowledge and Level of Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in the areas of risk management, data privacy, security, audit, and data governance in an information technology environment.
- Experience in designing, building, and scaling risk processes, with experience getting things done and overcoming obstacles.
- Experience influencing stakeholders and engineers, including roll-up the sleeves type of collaboration within a diverse, global, cross-functional team.
- Full life-cycle experience from end-to-end strategy through implementation, navigating business structures while maintaining confidentiality and discretion.
- Analytical and problem-solving experience with large-scale systems, and experience interpreting bottlenecks in complex systems and partnering with teams to resolve architectural issues, with experience adapting to new technology and participating in design discussions.
- Knowledge of Product Development Life Cycles (PDLC).
- Working knowledge or willingness to quickly learn the content and requirements of various laws, regulations, industry guidance, and company compliance policies, particularly related to privacy, data disclosure, and cybersecurity.
- Demonstrated data analytical skills, creativity, and experience with a strong attention to detail.
- Industry certifications relating to security, privacy, and risk management, such as CIPP, CIPM,