
Data Validation Risk - Manager
New York, NYJob$99–232K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed 1w ago
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Job overview
The Data Validation Risk Manager leads client support work across data engineering, data validation, and risk-aware delivery in PwC’s Advisory practice. The role directs workstreams and team members, manages project execution, and reviews deliverables to address issues and meet client needs. It applies technology and innovation to improve delivery and takes ownership of planning, execution, and completion across assigned projects.
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The Opportunity
As a Data Validation Risk Manager you will lead client support work focused on data engineering, data validation, and risk-aware delivery across data pipelines, integration points, and transformation activities within our Advisory practice. As a Manager you will coach team members, direct workstreams, manage performance, and use sound judgment to review deliverables, address issues, and keep work moving in line with client needs and Firm values. In this role at PwC, you will help convert raw data into usable information, apply technology and innovation to improve delivery, and take ownership of planning, execution, and completion across assigned projects.
Responsibilities
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Leading data validation and risk workstreams across client engagements, translating business needs into practical data engineering solutions
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Managing project plans, timelines, budgets, and deliverables while directing team efforts across multiple workstreams
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Developing and reviewing data pipelines, integration flows, transformation logic, and validation controls to support reliable data processing
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Applying knowledge of data architecture, modeling, quality, and security to identify issues and strengthen data solutions
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Analyzing complex data structures and system interactions to trace risks, gaps, and downstream impacts
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Coaching team members through feedback, review, and day-to-day guidance to support development and performance
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Collaborating with client leaders and internal stakeholders to align priorities, clarify requirements, and address delivery challenges
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Leveraging data engineering platforms, database optimization, and query tuning techniques to improve solution performance
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Promoting innovation through the use of automation, AI-enabled tools, and scalable engineering methods
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Upholding technical standards, documentation discipline, and independence requirements throughout delivery
What You Must Have
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At least a Bachelor's degree
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At least 5 years of experience
What Sets You Apart
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Preference for at least one of the following fields of study: Analytics/Data Science, Business Administration/Management, Computer Science/Information Systems, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Mathematics/Statistics, Operations/Supply Chain
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Demonstrating data validation, quality control, and risk analysis experience
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Managing client-facing workstreams within data engineering or analytics environments
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Leading teams through planning, budgeting, execution, and delivery
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Applying data integration, modeling, and pipeline knowledge to business issues
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Mentoring junior team members through feedback and coaching sessions
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Communicating findings clearly across technical and business audiences
The salary range for this position is: $99,000 - $232,000. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications and location, and applicable employment laws. All hired individuals are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. PwC offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401k, holiday pay, vacation, personal and family sick leave, and more. To view our benefits at a glance, please visit the following link: https://pwc.to/benefits-at-a-glance
As PwC is an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment at PwC without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity); age; disability; genetic information (including family medical history); veteran, marital, or citizenship status; or, any other status protected by law.
PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.
Learn more about how we work: https://pwc.to/how-we-work
For only those qualified applicants that are impacted by the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable, arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with these laws. At PwC, we recognize that conviction records may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship to responsibilities such as accessing sensitive company or customer information, handling proprietary assets, or collaborating closely with team members. We evaluate these factors thoughtfully to establish a secure and trusted workplace for all.
How this job compares
Set against the 580 open Risk Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$99–232K/yr
- New York median$135–207K/yr63 salary ranges
- US median$121–182K/yr443 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $166K, is 5% below the New York median midpoint ($175K) — in the middle half of Risk Manager salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 74 open Risk Manager jobs in New York and 580 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Deloitte11 open
- Capital One6 open
- PwC (this employer)4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Risk Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (519 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 323 of the 580 open Risk Manager jobs (56%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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