Data Risk & Compliance Manager || Hyderabad || Immediate Joiner

Data Risk & Compliance Manager - Hyderabad - Immediate Joiner

Primary Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities

1. Data Risk & Compliance Capability Leadership

• Maintain the Data Risk & Compliance capability roadmap, backlog, priorities, dependencies, and delivery status in partnership with EDAA and enabling teams.
• Translate business, policy, regulatory, risk, and control needs into clear governance requirements, solution requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans
• Serve as the primary point of contact for Data Risk & Compliance capability questions, demonstrations, working sessions, and stakeholder updates
• Identify recurring risks, control gaps, adoption barriers, and capability enhancement opportunities and elevate them through the appropriate governance channels

2. Critical Data Assets, Classification & Governance Requirements

• Coordinate the Critical Data Asset process and related workflow enhancements, including intake, validation, issue triage, stakeholder alignment, and backlog management
• Advance data classification requirements and use cases across priority EDAA data assets, working with Data Security, Privacy, Data Stewards, application teams, and platform partners
• Support definition and application of governance requirements for classification, privacy, retention, permissible use, access, ownership, business context, and regulatory scope
• Maintain alignment between Critical Data Asset, enterprise data asset, ServiceNow/CMDB, and Collibra processes as future-state requirements evolve

3. Risk, Compliance Assessment & Reporting

• Support execution and refinement of the Data Risk & Compliance assessment approach for existing and new data assets and products
• Coordinate collection of asset context, control evidence, observations, identified gaps, remediation actions, accountable owners, and target dates
• Enable leadership and governance reporting through scorecards, dashboards, risk flags, recurring monitoring, trend analysis, and clear escalation of material issues
• Partner with enterprise risk and control functions to ensure exceptions, risk acceptance, and policy deviations follow established approval and escalation processes

4. Platform Enablement & Agile Delivery

• Partner with Technical Data Management and platform teams to plan, prioritize, solution, test, and deliver Data Risk & Compliance capabilities in GCP/Collibra and related governance platforms
• Coordinate implementation readiness, user acceptance testing, business validation, defect and enhancement triage, release readiness, and post-release adoption
• Maintain the central requirements and use-case tracker, ensuring business priority, target timing, dependencies, approval status, and implementation notes remain current
• Participate in sprint planning, status reviews, working sessions, and governance forums to communicate progress, decisions, blockers, and next steps

5. Stakeholder Coordination, Documentation & Knowledge Continuity

• Build effective working relationships across EDAA, Data Security, Privacy, Records and Information Management, Technical Data Management, Enterprise Risk, Engineering, and business stakeholders
• Prepare concise executive-ready updates, decision materials, meeting notes, process documentation, and requirements artifacts
• Maintain organized, current capability documentation in the approved SharePoint structure, including clear separation of active, draft, final, and archived materials
• Ensure continuity of key workstreams, decisions, open questions, and stakeholder commitments throughout the leave coverage period and support an orderly transition at the end of the assignment

Required Skills & Experience

Technical & Governance Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Risk, Data Compliance, Data Management, Privacy, Information Governance, or a related enterprise discipline
• Demonstrated experience converting policy, regulatory, risk, or control requirements into operational governance processes and technology requirements
• Experience with Critical Data Asset governance, data classification, privacy, retention, permissible use, access governance, risk assessment, or control monitoring
• Hands-on experience with enterprise governance and metadata platforms such as Collibra/GCP BigQuery; familiarity with ServiceNow/CMDB, cloud data platforms, and data-security tooling is beneficial
• Experience managing requirements, roadmaps, backlogs, UAT, defects, releases, dashboards, and adoption measures in an agile delivery environment

Professional & Operational Competencies:

• Strong stakeholder management and the ability to bridge business, governance, risk, privacy, security, platform, and engineering teams
• Excellent analytical, requirements-definition, problem-solving, facilitation, and written communication skills
• Ability to independently manage multiple active workstreams, surface risks early, and drive decisions and follow-through in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to quickly learn existing frameworks, processes, artifacts, and stakeholder relationships while preserving continuity and delivery momentum