IT76 - Director of Data Governance

Job Description

The Director of Data Governance establishes and leads Northwest Bank's enterprise data governance strategy, policies, and operating model. This role will ensure data quality, integrity, and security while supporting compliance with regulations while serving as a bridge between business leaders, legal teams, and IT.

Essential Functions
Strategy & Frameworks: Develop the vision and roadmap for organizational information governance, master data management, and data architecture.
Policy Development: Design and implement data policies, standards, classification schemes, and data lifecycle management practices.
Data Quality Management: Establish metrics and incident-management processes to identify and resolve root causes of data errors.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data stewards, IT, and legal teams to enforce data privacy, compliance, and responsible AI/analytics practices
Research new technologies and evaluate their potential to add value in support of business, data team and operational needs
Provide technical leadership for development, engineering, and the database team
Enforce adherence to established architecture by providing review of planned changes
Partner with IT leadership team to enable their success
Leads ideation, implementation, and integration of technical strategies to assure achievement of business strategy
Determine modeling standards, guidelines, best practices and approved modeling techniques
Document modeling standards / guidelines; present to developers & analysts for buy in
Serves as a trusted technology consultant to IT and executive management for complex multi-platform technology solutions
Work with engineering and development teams on selection of hardware and software solutions to ensure alignment with company strategy
Directs the assessment of integration impacts of new technology
Ensures technology risks are identified and mitigated in accordance with business risk appetite
Lead design of meaningful metrics to be used in IT Steering Committees
Monitor system performance, identify and address bottlenecks
Lead ideation for infrastructure tuning improvements
Provide technical assistance and solution for escalated issues

Additional Essential Functions
Ensure compliance with Northwest's policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations
Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department in order to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency
Work as part of a team
Work with on-site equipment

What You Bring to the Team
Leadership: Proven ability to drive stakeholder alignment, manage data trust councils, and translate technical data constraints into business implications.
Technical Fluency: Familiarity with modern data platforms (Databricks & Collibra preferred), data catalogs, and business intelligence/AI tools

QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Science or Engineering or related subject

Work Experience
8 - 12 years Data governance, data quality, and analytics operations

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Ability to establish effective working relationships among team members and participate in solving problems and making decisions
Ability to present and express ideas and information clearly and concisely in a manner appropriate to the audience, whether oral or written
Ability to actively listen to what others are saying to achieve understanding, sharing information with others and facilitating the open exchange of ideas and information
Ability to establish courses of action for self to accomplish specific goals, develop and use tracking systems for monitoring own work progress, and effectively use resources such as time and information
Ability to make right decisions based on perceptive and analytical processes, practicing good judgment in gray areas
Ability to function with autonomy, establish relationships, and influence decisions
Skill in utilizing technology with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and predictive analytics to help drive customer experiences
Skill in expertise in design and implementation of complex information architectures for financial institutions
Ability to think strategically, innovate, and manage organizations during change
Communication and presentations skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities, prioritizing service delivery to and setting expectations with stakeholders
Ability to negotiating using a win-win strategy and producing positive business outcomes

Licenses and Certifications
CDMP Certified Data Management Professional Upon Hire

Northwest is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.