Truist Financial

Data Risk Oversight Senior Specialist

Truist Financial$90K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in technology, Data, Business, or Finance.
  • 3+ years in banking, technology, operations, risk management or regulatory agencies.
  • 3+ years in data management, governance, analytics, testing or risk management.
  • Strong understanding of risk and controls framework development.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to build trust with management.
  • Functional knowledge of Data Management and Data Controls across data supply chains.
  • Proven ability to navigate complex environments and deliver high-quality work.

Responsibilities

  • Drive execution of EDRO Coverage and Operating Model including risk advisory and independent risk assessment.
  • Engage and collaborate with business partners to ensure understanding of EDRO Program requirements.
  • Contribute to executing the EDRO strategic plan and its tactical roadmaps.
  • Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, and internal policies.
  • Manage issues and remediation in alignment with the Enterprise Issue Management Program.
  • Support data risk reporting and metrics quantifying data risk enterprise-wide.
  • Foster a strong risk culture promoting proactive risk management and accountability.
  • Challenge significant data initiatives before moving to 3LoD for validation.

Benefits

  • Opportunity for professional growth in a dynamic data and AI environment.
  • Mentorship and structured onboarding process for knowledge development.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and emerging data practices.
  • Collaborative work culture with emphasis on teamwork and partnership.
  • Engagement with diverse stakeholders across the enterprise.
Full Job Description
This role requires a professional who brings, or can rapidly develop, sufficient technical literacy in data platforms, data architecture, and artificial intelligence (including Generative AI and Agentic AI) to provide informed risk oversight of these domains. The ideal candidate either has experience evaluating risk identification and mitigating controls in technology-driven data environments and AI use cases from a risk management and governance perspective or demonstrates a strong aptitude and intellectual curiosity to build that knowledge through structured onboarding, mentoring, and continuous learning. As Truist's data and AI landscape evolves, this position will be expected to stay current with emerging technologies, understand how they introduce or amplify risk, and apply that understanding to deliver credible effective challenge, independent risk assessment, and sound risk advisory to first-line partners. This position will also work closely with 1LOD partners to effectively synchronize activities, and deliver against the top Program priorities, goals and objectives. The ideal candidate must maintain current knowledge of emerging AI/ML technologies, risks, and regulatory developments; translate insights into actionable risk management practices and governance enhancements. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time. 1. Drives successful execution of the EDRO Coverage and Operating Model including risk advisory, effective challenge and independent risk assessment responsibilities and delivery. 2. Ensures active engagement and collaboration with key business partners and stakeholders to ensure effective communication, education and understanding of EDRO Program requirements and expectations as appropriate and to drive and facilitate achievement of common goals and objectives. 3. Effectively contributes to the execution and delivery of the EDRO strategic plan including the supporting tactical plans/roadmaps. 4. Ensures all applicable laws, rules, regulations, internal policies, standards, and procedures are being followed and can evidence adherence. 5. Drives effective issues management and remediation execution in alignment with the Enterprise Issue Management (EIM) Program as applicable. 6. Supports and facilitates data risk reporting and metrics to effectively reflect and quantify data risk across the enterprise. 7. Promotes and fosters a strong Truist risk culture driving proactive risk management and remediation accountability across the enterprise. 8. Performs effective challenge on covered areas for all significant data processes and initiatives prior to moving to 3LoD for validation. 9. Provides risk advisory to strengthen data risk controls when applicable. Supports the Single Point of contract for Data Risk areas within Business Units and/or Corporate Function. Qualifications Required Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions 1. .Bachelor's degree in technology, Data, Business and/or Finance. 2. Three plus years of experience in banking, technology, operations, risk management and/or regulatory agencies. 3. Three plus years of data management, governance, analytics, testing and/or risk management experience. 4. Strong business acumen/knowledge, management experience, problem solving, critical thinking, influencing and sound decision-making skills. Demonstrates the ability to effectively prioritize. 5. Strong experience and understanding of risk and controls framework development, management, and measurement. 6. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills demonstrating the ability to build credibility and trust with all levels of management. 7. Functional and technical knowledge of Data Management, Data Analytics and Data Controls framework across data supply chains. 9. Demonstrated ability to effectively interact, collaborate, prepare and plan in a highly matrixed and complex environment and consistently execute in delivering high quality executive level work products. 10. Has demonstrated strong change management abilities and skills to effectively support and manage change and navigate through ambiguity. Preferred Qualifications: 1. Data compliance knowledge/experience regarding applicable laws/rules/ regulations. 2. Previous experience in a second line of defense or internal audit role. 3. Familiar with Governance Risk and Compliance platforms, e.g., Archer. 4. Deep knowledge experience with popular architectures, such as Transformer, RAG, and Agentic AI, is a plus. 5. Experience with GenAI/Agentic AI risk (prompt injection, hallucination, misuse) is a plus. 6. Technical/AI tool fluency (practical not theoretical) to effectively identify risk and contribute to the design of the governance controls. 7. Collaborate and consult with peers and management to resolve issues and achieve goals.

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