ScaleneWorks INC · 16 hours ago
Data Governance Lead
NYC Metro Area
Contract
Hybrid
Senior LevelScaleneWorks INC is seeking a Data Governance Lead for their Payment and Transaction Banking platforms. The role involves embedding data governance practices, ensuring data quality, privacy, and compliance, while collaborating with delivery and architecture teams to support modern payment ecosystems.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Embed data governance guardrails into agile delivery lifecycles, including feature design, acceptance criteria and release planning
Act as a domain data governance SME supporting multiple delivery teams working on Payment platforms and data products
Translate enterprise data governance policies into actionable, domain-specific implementation guidance for delivery teams
Define and maintain domain-level canonical and conceptual data models for Payment and Transaction Banking
Ensure consistent application of Payment data standards across platforms covering clearing, settlement, liquidity, reconciliation and reporting
Support semantic consistency aligned to ISO 20022 and modern Payment data models
Drive consistent metadata capture, ownership definition and end-to-end lineage across Payment data pipelines
Ensure critical datasets have clear business definitions, ownership and traceability from source systems to downstream consumption
Partner with technology teams to embed lineage and metadata tagging within automated delivery pipelines
Define domain-specific data quality rules and controls aligned to regulatory, risk and operational requirements
Ensure automated data quality checks are embedded into Payment data pipelines and platforms
Contribute to Definition of Done and acceptance criteria to ensure data quality and control requirements are met before release
Oversee classification, labelling and handling of sensitive and customer data within Payment datasets
Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and internal control standards
Define and enforce data archival and retention policies for Payment data, supporting audit, regulatory and operational needs
Analyze audit findings and control feedback to identify governance gaps and improvement opportunities
Strengthen domain-level governance, quality and control frameworks based on audit and regulatory outcomes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
Strong domain experience in Payment / Transaction Banking, including exposure to payment rails such as real-time Payment, ACH, SWIFT, clearing and settlement
Hands-on experience defining and governing data across large-scale Payment platforms or data ecosystems
Advanced data modelling expertise (conceptual, logical and physical), including semantic modelling for analytics and reporting
Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture and data platform design
Practical experience with metadata management, data cataloguing and lineage capabilities
Proven experience implementing automated data quality rules, controls and validation frameworks
Solid understanding of data privacy, sensitive data handling and regulatory expectations in banking environments
Experience working in large, complex, regulatory-aware organisations using agile or scaled-agile delivery models
Preferred
Exposure to industry data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, COBIT)
Experience within large global banks, Payment transformation programs or Transaction Banking functions
Familiarity with advanced data modelling techniques such as data vault or graph-based models
Knowledge of data observability and monitoring practices to assess data health and reliability across pipelines
Experience supporting ISO 20022 migrations or Payment data modernization initiatives
Company
ScaleneWorks INC
1200 + people strong organization with 3 primary business units - Consulting, Recruitment and Technology.
Founded in 2010
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Nisha Mehra
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