Director, Data Governance

Salary: Open + Bonus

Location: Hybrid role in Chicago, IL

*This role is open to sponsorship candidates*

A prestigious financial company is seeking a hands-on Director of Data Governance with experience in Capital Markets. This role will manage over a team of 5. Qualified candidates will have come up technically in data before getting into a Data Governance focused role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8+ years of data governance including experience in Capital Markets
• Experience implementing company wide data governance framework and delivering data capabilities.
• Ability to develop people, mentoring and teaching on the job. Manages team of 3-5 staff.
• Experience using data governance such as IBM ISEE, Informatica, Collibra, etc.
• SQL experience
• Strong data analysis capabilities
• Meta Data Management (MDM), Data Lineage, Regulatory compliance

Responsibilities

• Responsible for creating and developing the capabilities of the data framework as per the data roadmap.
• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and work with the various business functions to strengthen data accountability and implement data stewardship.
• Develop the data quality framework as well as set standards for measurement that ensure that data is fit for its purpose.
• Work with business and technical staff to identify and implement proactive data quality monitoring and produce data quality KPIs and metrices.
• Responsible in strengthening the business glossary, metadata management and data lineage procedures and ensuring the regulatory compliance.