Data Risk Oversight Senior Specialist at Truist

Job Title

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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Drives successful execution of the EDRO Coverage and Operating Model including risk advisory, effective challenge and independent risk assessment responsibilities and delivery.
• 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.
• Effectively contributes to the execution and delivery of the EDRO strategic plan including the supporting tactical plans/roadmaps.
• Ensures all applicable laws, rules, regulations, internal policies, standards, and procedures are being followed and can evidence adherence.
• Drives effective issues management and remediation execution in alignment with the Enterprise Issue Management (EIM) Program as applicable.
• Supports and facilitates data risk reporting and metrics to effectively reflect and quantify data risk across the enterprise.
• Promotes and fosters a strong Truist risk culture driving proactive risk management and remediation accountability across the enterprise.
• Performs effective challenge on covered areas for all significant data processes and initiatives prior to moving to 3LoD for validation.
• 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:

• Bachelor's degree in technology, Data, Business and/or Finance.
• Three plus years of experience in banking, technology, operations, risk management and/or regulatory agencies.
• Three plus years of data management, governance, analytics, testing and/or risk management experience.
• Strong business acumen/knowledge, management experience, problem solving, critical thinking, influencing and sound decision-making skills. Demonstrates the ability to effectively prioritize.
• Strong experience and understanding of risk and controls framework development, management, and measurement.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills demonstrating the ability to build credibility and trust with all levels of management.
• Functional and technical knowledge of Data Management, Data Analytics and Data Controls framework across data supply chains.
• 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.
• Has demonstrated strong change management abilities and skills to effectively support and manage change and navigate through ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data compliance knowledge/experience regarding applicable laws/rules/ regulations.
• Previous experience in a second line of defense or internal audit role.
• Familiar with Governance Risk and Compliance platforms, e.g., Archer.
• Deep knowledge experience with popular architectures, such as Transformer, RAG, and Agentic AI, is a plus.
• Experience with GenAI/Agentic AI risk (prompt injection, hallucination, misuse) is a plus.
• Technical/AI tool fluency (practical not theoretical) to effectively identify risk and contribute to the design of the governance controls.
• Collaborate and consult with peers and management to resolve issues and achieve goals.

**The annual base salary for this position is $145,000 - 165,000.**

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.