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SMBC Group · 1 week ago

Head of Data Governance Technology Tooling

Charlotte, NC

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$171K/yr - $230K/yr

10+ years exp

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group offering a diverse range of financial services. They are seeking an experienced Technology Manager for Data Governance to lead the implementation and ongoing support of the data management practice, ensuring compliance with strategic directives and driving continuous improvement opportunities.

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Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership and Partnership working with CDAO and Business Areas to align on strategy and execution

Databricks governance enablement across areas such as Catalog, Lineage, and Data Quality, and DQ Issue Management

Deploy and scale Data Quality Rules, leveraging preventative and detective approaches

Ensure MDM is consistently adopted across data consumers to have one source of truth

Establish and continuously improve 'Run the Bank' and 'Build the Bank' initiatives

Provides regular status updates of team activities including progress of development work to the applications manager, business analysts, project managers and release managers

Understands and evangelizes priority project efforts and strategic direction

Prioritizes and assigns work from the interface backlog list to team members

Performs resource management including capacity planning

Respond to regulatory-related requests as needed

Manages projects and coordinates the implementation of major production changes

Provides man days estimates for interface development work to project managers

Determines overall development standards, identifies improvements to the development process and maintains documented coding standards

Performs administrative tasks such as timesheet approvals, SOAR/SAM approvals, performance reviews, interface backlog list updates, PRoPS updates and change request submission / updates

Leads production troubleshooting during severity incidents and creates/updates incident reports for severity incidents

Meets with business stakeholders and other technical team members to gather and analyze application data management requirements

Leads the design of and builds data management solutions to satisfy application (business and technical) requirements

Collaborates with Process Specialists, Process Owners and Subject Matter Experts to create BPM solutions

Assist with the implementation of data management solutions using available data management tools

Understands and facilitates team understanding of data management tools, methods and applications

Qualification

Data governanceData managementCollibraFinancial services experienceRegulatory frameworksStakeholder managementCloud integrationsGraph-based lineageLeadership

Required

8+ years of experience in Financial Services

10- 15 years of experience in data governance, data management, or technology roles

Proven experience as service owner for governance platforms

Understanding of global and regional regulatory frameworks (BCBS 239, GDPR, etc.)

Experience with Collibra Data Intelligence Platform and Collibra Data Quality

Executive presence and stakeholder management skills

Experience in banking or the financial industry, preferably in regulatory reporting or credit analysis area

Preferred

BA / BS (or equivalent experience) Degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems or related disciplines

Experience in federated governance operating models

Familiarity with graph-based lineage solutions and AI enablement

Experience with cloud integrations across a governance ecosystem

Prior leadership in navigating larger financial institutions

Benefits

The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award

SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees

Company

SMBC Group

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SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group.

Founded in 1590

New York, New York, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.smbcgroup.com/americas

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