Senior Lead - Data Risk & Controls

About Us

At ANZ, we're shaping a world where people and communities thrive, driven by a common goal: to improve the financial wellbeing and sustainability of our millions of customers.

About the Role

The Senior Lead, Enterprise Data Risk plays a key role in supporting the management and governance of Data Risk across ANZ. The role provides specialist leadership in the development and uplift of enterprise Data Risk practices, supporting effective risk management outcomes across Data Management, Records Management and Responsible Use of Data. Working closely with business, technology and risk stakeholders, the role translates enterprise frameworks, policies, standards and risk appetite expectations into practical guidance, governance practices, and implementation approaches with a specific focus on controls uplift.

The role leads a small specialist team and supports the ongoing maturity of ANZ's Data Risk capability through the development of governance frameworks, accountability models, reporting and adoption activities with a specific focus on controls uplift.
Banking is changing and we’re changing with it, giving our people great opportunities to try new things, learn and grow. Whatever your role at ANZ, you’ll be building your future, while helping to build ours. 

Role Location: Bengaluru
Role Type: Permanent, Fulltime

What will your day look like?

As a Senior Lead, Enterprise Data Risk, you will:

• Lead the ongoing enhancement and operationalization of ANZ’s Data Management Control Library, including standard control requirements, implementation guidance and effective-practice examples.
• Shape risk-based controls across the data lifecycle, including controls supporting data quality, critical data, metadata, lineage, records management and responsible use of data.
• Partner with business, data and technology teams to translate enterprise requirements into practical controls that can be implemented and sustained within business processes and technology environments.
• Assess the data control environment to identify gaps, systemic weaknesses and opportunities to improve control design, coverage, automation, monitoring and effectiveness.
• Lead specialist control uplift initiatives and provide enterprise insights on implementation progress, control maturity and the effectiveness of actions intended to reduce Data Risk.

What will you bring?

To grow and be successful in this role, you will ideally bring the following:

• 10+ years of overall experience in Data Management, Data Governance, Data Risk, or Data Controls,
• At least five years’ specialist experience designing, implementing or uplifting data controls within a large, complex data, technology or risk environment.
• Strong knowledge of data control frameworks and associated capabilities, including data quality monitoring, critical data, metadata management, data lineage and control effectiveness assessment.
• Demonstrated ability to translate policy, risk and regulatory requirements into practical control requirements, implementation guidance and sustainable ways of working across business and technology teams.
• Experience developing or managing an enterprise control library, control taxonomy, control standards or similar reusable control capability.
• Experience with data governance and observability tooling that enables control implementation, automation, monitoring, testing and evidence capture.
• Experience influencing enterprise-wide control uplift within financial services or another highly regulated industry.

So why join us?

ANZ is a place where big things happen as we work together to provide banking and financial services across more than 30 markets. With more than 7,500 people, our Bengaluru team is the bank's largest technology, data and operations centre outside Australia. In operation for over 33 years, the centre is critical in delivering the bank's strategy and making an impact for our millions of customers around the world. Our Bengaluru team not only drives the transformation initiatives of the bank, it also drives a culture that makes ANZ a great place to be. We're proud that people feel they can be themselves at ANZ and 90 percent of our people feel they belong. 

We know our people need different things to be great in their role, so we offer a range of flexible working options, including hybrid work (where the role allows it). Our people also enjoy a range of benefits including access to health and wellbeing services.

We want to continue building a diverse workplace and welcome applications from everyone. Please talk to us about any adjustments you may require to our recruitment process or the role itself. If you are a candidate with a disability or access requirements, let us know how we can provide you with additional support.

To find out more about working at ANZ visit https://www.anz.com/careers/. You can apply for this role by visiting ANZ Careers and searching for reference number 125710

Job Posting End Date

22/10/2026, 11.59pm, (Melbourne Australia)