Sr. Lead, Data Management

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.  

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

The Sr. Lead, DMG will partner with IT application teams, data owners, data custodians, data stewards, and data consumers to improve data management and quality in technology applications and data sets across the data supply chain. This role will primarily focus on the implementation and enforcement of policies, standards, and frameworks that align with regulatory requirements (BCBS 239) and enterprise data strategy. Among other things, they will support other data management team members, data governance, data architecture and data analytics with establishing, monitoring rules for critical and material Data Elements and processes to scale data quality management withing Technology. They will setup the framework and methodology for data management within Technology, issue detection, drive root cause identification and remediation for identified data quality gaps. The DMS will enable completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, validity and uniqueness in NT Technology data. They shall be competent in leading and delivering large scale, multi-year data management and quality initiatives in a highly matrixed environment. This role will benefit from having a high-level understanding of data governance, data architecture, analytics, technology, privacy, risk, information security and is responsible for day-to-day logistics of driving data management adoption across technology. They will partner with data and analytics team members, CIO/CTO stakeholder teams, and Enterprise Data Governance.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the adoption and enforcement of data management policies, standards, and frameworks across Technology Business Unit
• Help develop, maintain and drive adoption of data quality roadmap, policies, standards and procedures
• Utilize technology capabilities to maximize automation of data quality management
• Champion existing (Collibra) and suggest new management platforms and tools to improve data quality
• Implement and enforce governance over critical data elements (CDEs), including Business Term definitions, business and technical lineage, data quality and controls within the Information Technology Data Domain.
• Foster a collaborative, outcome driven environment, rooted in increasing trust in data
• Partner with Information Security, Privacy, and Risk teams to ensure regulatory compliance and policy alignment
• Review, approve and maintain technology data business term as part of the IT Data Domain glossary
• Manage multiple small-medium data management initiatives
• Establish data management framework and methodologies
• Run data management working group and council
• Support the documentation and escalation of risks, issues, actions, & decisions
• Implement KPIs to measure and communicate data management health and adoption across the organization
• Implement and promote a data quality culture, improve data literacy through learning & development
• Support the creation and facilitation of vendor SOWs, RFPs, and project change requests for data quality needs

Skills:

• 10-15 years total experience with 5+ years in data governance, stewardship, or metadata management within the banking, technology space
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks (DAMA DMBOK), roles, and operating models
• Proven success implementing data quality standards, policies, and governance tools at scale
• Experience coordinating governance activities across federated and matrixed environments
• Proficient in metadata and data quality management platforms such as Collibra DQM, Informatica, Alation, DQLabs, Ataccama or other.
• Understanding of Data Quality rule writing
• Familiarity with regulatory data requirements (BCBS 239, GDPR, CCPA)
• Growth mindset, demonstrating continuous improvement
• Established and built data quality function from the ground up
• Simultaneously managed multiple small-medium initiatives in a matrixed organization
• Data analytics and data knowledge (w/ SQL skills) is a plus

Salary Range:

$95,600 - 162,400 USD

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Nor