Data Governance Specialist

Candidate will have hands-on experience in data governance standards, principles, processes and procedures to build, implement and manage for financial or banking organizations.
Key Responsibilities
· Develop and implement data governance frameworks, standards, and procedures to ensure data privacy, security, quality, integrity, and compliance with regulatory standards.
· Ensure adoption and compliance with data policies on data classification, security, privacy, and other regulatory requirements for data protection regulations (e.g., HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA) and establish practices to safeguard data privacy and security.
· Monitor and assess risks related to data security and compliance, proactively addressing potential vulnerabilities.
· Knowledgeable with metadata management, CRUD data lifecycle, and other data management subject areas such as Master & Reference Data Management, Data Migration & Integration Governance, Document & Content Management, etc.

Skills
· 6+ years of experience in Data Governance and Master Data Management.
· Experience in establishing and enforcing data governance especially the data protection.
· Complete knowledge and implementation experience of Banking & Financial insinuations data standards, information data protection, information security policies, guidelines and the regulatory environment.
· Experience in facilitating the design of the process that enables data registration along with classification for new data to be ingested.
· Strong knowledge on data governance frameworks, Global and US data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), and compliance requirements. US data privacy acts or International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Certification - CIPP, CIPM or CIPT (IS A PLUS) or DAMA certification preferred.
· Proficiency in data management tools and technologies like Alation, PKware, Ataccama, Talend is desirable
· Bachelor's degree preferably in Information Management/security, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
· Ability to work with key business and technology stakeholders to develop and implement solutions to ensure that appropriate data privacy standards and practices are in place
· Leads gathering, refining, documenting, user acceptance testing, and coordination of Data Governance and Privacy requirements.
· Supports the data classification and mapping of data elements to mandated categories per State laws.
· Experience with Databases (i.e. Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Amazon S3) and ETL tools.
· Knowledge on proactive data monitoring processes for data classification for the data that already exists
· Writing policies around management data security and classifications