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Bloomberg

Product Manager - Data Classification - Chief Risk Office

Bloomberg, New York, NY


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What's the role?

Bloomberg's Chief Risk Office (CRO) plays a critical role in supporting our businesses and operations around the world. We move quickly and thoughtfully to help address risks inherent in being the world's leading financial news and information company. Our team is made up of talented and hardworking professionals who think creatively and work collaboratively in an open environment to deliver results, drive innovation, and solve difficult problems. Diversity and inclusion are essential to our success, and we strive to maintain an environment where our employees are empowered to make an impact. We also recognize the value of diversity and inclusion in cultivating a supportive workplace and the importance of giving back to our communities.

The CRO Data Governance team's mission is to establish mechanisms to ensure the Right Data is available, in the Right Place, at the Right Time, to the Right People, in a secure and compliant way. To achieve this mission, the CRO Data Governance team collaborates with other functions across Bloomberg, including Legal and Compliance, Engineering, Data, Products, CISO, and CTO in designing and implementing a data management framework, control processes and tools, and supporting training and awareness.

In our continued effort to unlock the potential of our data at scale, we are seeking a Data Catalog Product Owner. With focus on capturing high quality metadata, this role will be critical in supporting our business users, engineers, and analysts as they seek to find and explore our data assets to meet the needs of our customers and business.

We'll trust you to:
  • Define requirements and consistent implementation of Data Classification
  • Collaborate across risk and control teams, including information security, engineering, legal, privacy, and compliance to define Data Classification requirements and technical roadmaps to satisfy strategic, regulatory, and privacy requirements
  • Engage with Engineering to prioritize remediation of identified gaps and new feature enhancements to satisfy business requirements and regulatory expectations
  • Track coverage of Data Classification, and define plans to increase coverage through automated discovery and validation
  • Monitor data classification rules and environment scanning performance
  • Develop and deliver Data Classification training to key stakeholders
  • Identify opportunities for process optimization and control automation leveraging Data Classification to ensure the ongoing confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data
You'll need to have:
  • 5-7 years' experience in risk management, with at least 3 years in Data Management
  • Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or related discipline
  • Hands-on experience with Data Classification tools (e.g., BigID, Collibra, Informatica, Varonis), and options for developing and implementing preventative controls
  • Strong understanding of application and data security
  • Basic SQL scripting, relational database, no-SQL database, and data modeling
  • Experience with public cloud and software-as-a-service APIs
  • Experience with working in agile development environment
  • Diversified experience of technology, operations, privacy, regulatory compliance, and risk management
  • Knowledge of financial markets, instruments, and trading lifecycle
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Ability to work independently and on a team
  • Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and able to thrive in a dynamic, fast paced environment
We'd love to see:
  • Individuals who are passionate about all things Risk and are genuinely excited about playing their part in helping build a best-in-class program
  • DCAM or DAMA certification
  • Strong understanding of privacy requirements (i.e., GDPR, CCPA, et al)
  • Agile and/or Project Management certification (SAFe, PMP)
Does this sound like you?

Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know that the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/

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