Corporate Vice President: Data Protection and Data Risk Management Lead

New York Life • New York, NY

10d • Hybrid

About The Position

As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth — driving the company's success.
Role Overview:
The Data Protection & Data Risk Management Lead plays a key role in advancing New York Life’s data governance & data protection initiatives. This team leader role focuses on the design, development and execution of NYL’s data protection & data risk management/mitigation strategy.
This position would lead a team of data governance analysts and engineers and collaborate with product managers, technology teams, data owners/steward from the business, data security team, risk, legal & compliance to deliver capabilities like data scanning for PII/PHI detection, data protection using tokenization/masking and data risk measurement, monitoring and mitigation, using platforms such as Atlan, DataBricks, Anomalo & other DSPM tools etc.
The key business outcome that this position will drive is that of ensuring compliance with relevant regulatory data protection guidelines and ensuring data risks are appropriately measured & mitigated.

Requirements

• 15+ years of professional experience, including 10+ years in a data protection function.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Strong understanding of data protection frameworks, tagging, data risk measurement and metadata management concepts.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into governance policies, standards, and workflows.
• Product owner / product management skills to drive user engagement & product adoption.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and experience working across business and technical teams.
• Familiarity with SQL, data analysis and data modeling concepts.
• Hands-on experience with data protection tools. Familiarity with data catalog, quality and observability tools.
• Experience applying data protection frameworks, PII/PHI scanning & remediation and data risk measurement & reporting processes.
• Working in Agile environments as a Product Owner, using Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with DSPM initiatives will be a stand-out skill.
• Exposure to the AWS cloud stack
• Exposure to AI-enabled data protection accelerators, metadata management etc.
• Experience driving/supporting data warehousing, data modernization or cloud migration initiatives in enterprise settings.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the data protection strategy.
• Lead the design and implementation of data protection platforms, processes & workflows.
• Collaborate with business data owners, stewards, data product managers, SMEs from Risk & Compliance, and data engineers to drive alignment on data protection goals and adoption of data protection tools and processes.
• Define a framework for measuring, monitoring and reporting of enterprise-wide Data Risk. Deliver a Data Risk mitigation program to ensure data risks are within control.
• Drive social events like roadshows, lunch and learns, training sessions, user enablement/onboarding sessions.
• As the Product Owner, participate in and lead the Agile ceremonies by owning the product backlog, managing the deliveries and soliciting/acting on customer feedback.

Benefits

• We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive