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Byline Bank · 3 weeks ago

Data Governance Program Manager (Hybrid)

Schaumburg, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$130K/yr - $162K/yr

10+ years exp

Byline Bank, headquartered in Chicago, is a full-service commercial bank focused on serving small- and medium-sized businesses. The Data Governance Program Manager will lead the planning and execution of a comprehensive Data Governance Program, ensuring data is managed as a strategic asset while coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver effective data governance initiatives.

Asset ManagementBankingCommunitiesCredit CardsFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechLendingWealth Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the bank’s data governance program, including developing, maintaining and enforcing the framework, policies, standards & best practices, and procedures

Develop and maintain program charters, integrated roadmaps, and dependency maps

Manage budgets, timelines, milestones, and performance metrics

Report program progress, outcomes, and escalations to leadership and executive sponsors

Define and track KPIs for data governance effectiveness

Collaborate with business units, IT, compliance, and risk teams to align data governance initiatives with strategic goals

Implement the Data Governance Operating Model, including staffing enterprise DG teams (policy, enablement, operations, stewardship)

Establish and support the Data Governance Council and Working Groups, ensuring effective coordination of deliverables, communications, and key performance indicators (KPIs)

Oversee deployment of data governance tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica) for cataloging, glossary, lineage, and quality

Establish data quality monitoring and remediation workflows, focusing on data supporting critical KPIs and metrics

Partner with data owners and stewards to operationalize stewardship and accountability

Define and track KPIs measuring DG control adoption (e.g., EDM Council CDMC controls)

Establish and support data stewardship roles across departments to ensure accountability for data quality and integrity

Lead efforts to identify, escalate, and resolve data quality and governance issues

Develop and oversee robust processes for metadata management, data lineage tracking, data cataloging, and data cleansing, ensuring all activities are thoroughly documented and support data accuracy, consistency, and transparency across the organization

Partner with business owners to define metric ownership and lineage traceability to source systems

Identify and decommission duplicate or conflicting metrics and assets

Lead inventory and rationalization of enterprise metrics, reports, and dashboards

Maintain a governed Enterprise Metrics Glossary with version control and change processes

Coordinate with Business Intelligence teams to ensure analytics outputs align with certified, governed data sources

Manage delivery of the Customer MDM solution, from tool selection through implementation and go-live

Define and oversee data mastering, match/merge, golden record creation, and stewardship workflows

Ensure MDM outputs directly support enterprise KPIs and analytical use cases

Establish MDM operations, including governance integration, change control, and stewardship practices

Ensure adherence to internal policies and external regulations (e.g., BCBS 239, GDPR, CCPA, FFIEC)

Establish best practices and provide oversight for the implementation and monitoring of data classification, data loss prevention, and the management of the data lifecycle, including archiving, retention, purging, and backups, across the organization

Ensure that all data platforms and source systems consistently comply with privacy, security, and data quality standards, maintaining robust safeguards and adherence to regulatory requirements throughout the organization

Conduct regular data profiling across all banking applications to assess data quality and integrity, ensuring clear identification of data owners and assignment of roles and responsibilities for each data asset

Align governance processes with metadata-driven lineage, access controls, and policy enforcement to maintain robust data stewardship and compliance

Qualification

Data GovernanceRegulatory ComplianceData Governance ToolsData Quality ManagementStakeholder ManagementProject ManagementAnalytical SkillsFinancial SkillsMaster Data ManagementDAMA-DMBOKEDM Council CDMCCOBITVisioCertified Data Management ProfessionalCommunication SkillsLeadership SkillsProblem-Solving SkillsDocumentation Skills