The Walt Disney Company Nordic & Baltic is hiring: Lead Data Governance Analyst

Overview

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Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally. The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Disney’s Ad Platforms group is seeking a Lead Data Governance Analyst, Audit & Compliance to drive Audit and Compliance initiatives across the Advertising Platforms (Ads) data visibility and controls across our data-driven advertising ecosystem. This role applies domain expertise to identify and implement process and technology improvements to meet corporate data categorization and Ads data usage information requirements. These responsibilities are critical to ensuring our advertising data is accessible for various use cases.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Ad Platforms Sarbanes-Oxley Audit preparation activities including data discovery, analysis, and coordination with internal Disney functions.
• Implement enhancements to Risk Management practices within Ads to track and manage technology and business risks associated with Disney’s ad-serving ecosystem.
• Design and implement monitoring and reporting capabilities relating to audit preparation activities.
• Review and enhance internal annual audit schedule and activities for Ad Platforms to enable efficient collection and execution of audit requirements.
• Drive centralized security and privacy audit functions across Ads ecosystem to ensure compliance with internal and external standards.
• Drive alignment across Ads product and engineering functions and corporate governance.
• Represent Ads within corporate information security and governance committees and boards.
• Collect, track, and oversee execution of program initiatives to support Audit and Compliance requirements.
• Promote Security and Privacy by design principles throughout Ads organization throughout program lifecycles.
• Advise and oversee appropriate changes based on technology capabilities, emergent policies, regulations, industry trends, and edge cases.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Law, Computer Science, Public Policy, International Business, Information Systems, Psychology, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience leading Compliance, Audit, Data Governance, Privacy, Information Security, or Risk Management programs, preferably in Ad Tech, Regulated (US Government), Digital Streaming, or Digital Media settings.
• 7+ years hands-on experience collecting and organizing technical evidence supporting technical and business controls, and presenting actionable intelligence to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Outstanding verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with all levels of management.
• Excellent follow-up skills and the ability to take initiative, with proactive problem-solving and analytical thinking.
• Proven experience onboarding, categorizing, standardizing, and driving data processing consistencies within a data-centric environment.
• Experience capturing and documenting data quality and service level expectations within a diverse enterprise.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience with data lifecycle management.
• Certifications such as CRISC, CGRC, CGEIT, or CISSP.
• Experience with industry standards and frameworks such as NIST 800.53, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27002, ISO/IEC 27018, NIST RMF, TOGAF, or HIPAA.
• Experience in the Media & Entertainment field, and/or consulting.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (AWS, GCP), data pipelines (Airflow), and governance tools (Semarchy, Alation, Unity, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and Databricks environments.
• Knowledge of Python, SQL, AWS, GitHub.
• Experience with a reporting tool such as Tableau or Looker.
• Expertise in first-party data strategies, identity resolution technologies, and privacy-conscious advertising.
• Experience with advertising measurement frameworks, attribution modeling, and ad fraud mitigation.
• Demonstrated ability to embed privacy-by-design in machine learning, personalization, or audience segmentation initiatives.
• ITIL Intermediate or Advanced certifications.
• Certifications in agile software development methodologies.

The hiring range for this position in CA is $138,900.00 to $186,200.00 per year. The base pay offered will consider internal equity and may vary by geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided, in addition to benefits, dependent on level and position offered.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries: Entertainment Providers

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