Chief Data Office – Data Governance Lead

Job Description

The AWM Chief Data Office at JPMorgan Chase is responsible for accelerating the AWM data and analytics journey. This includes ensuring the quality, integrity, and security of the company's data, as well as leveraging this data to generate insights and drive decision-making.

As Data Governance Lead within AWM Data Governance CDO team, you are a key enabler to AWM ability to identify, manage and measure the risk around dat. It is a core pillar and mechanism that allow the AWM CDO team to centrally influence the mitigation of data risks and help drive key priorities internal and external regulatory requirements. Additionally, it enables us to assess whether AWM is managing and mitigating data risk to the lowest level practical and operating within risk appetite. The AWM CDO is also responsible for developing and implementing solutions that support the AWM commercial goals by harnessing artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to develop new products, improve productivity, and enhance risk management effectively and responsibly.

 

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive adherence and compliance to Firmwide Data Risk Management policies and standards; controls and operational practices and to meet the needs of AWM's unique business and client expectations, regulations and local and regional laws. 
• Provide ideas on improving existing business processes to achieve system and process enhancements and efficiencies.
• Support the execution of large scale, multi-year program deliverables related to specific workstreams (i.e., applications) and build robust program management skills
• Participate in Firmwide and AWM Governance forums, lead meetings and drive action to address requirements
• Provide leadership with recommendations for enhancements to the overall Data Governance structure across the firm by Representing AWM CDO needs & unique requirements on firm-wide forums to influence and uplift firm wide policies where applicable. 
• Responsible for investigation & resolution of breaches to data governance & risk policies; manage risk of data through an oversight and escalation framework 
• Partner with Controls, Risk, Compliance, Audit, Legal, Product Owners, Application & Information Owners, Technology partners in efforts to sustain a mature AWM Data Governance framework and further enhance Data Governance control strategy for AWM
• Collaborate with Firmwide teams, other LOBs, technology, Data Owners on metadata management, documentation of lineage and Data Tiering initiatives.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• 7+ years of relevant experience;  strong understanding of control and risk management concepts with the ability to evaluate controls, create procedure and process flows in conjunction with business and control partners
• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Business Administration, Economics, Finance or equivalent work experience
• Data governance subject matter expertise 
• Experience implementing firmwide policies and standards
• Excellent senior stakeholder management skills and experience coordinating across a wide range of functional teams
• Previous experience in strategic and tactical initiatives: Ability to identify problems, propose solutions and own deliverables
• Solid organizational skills including attention to detail, time management and multi-tasking
• Strong critical thinking, problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) including ability to present concise, direct and timely communications to management and appropriately escalate 
• Ability to shift perspective from high level 'big picture' to low-level detail
• Ability to communicate with both business and technology partners on data and technology concepts
• Independent, organized, self-motivated and a team player.
• Adaptable to work in an evolving and changeable environment. 
• Advanced skills with the core MS Office suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint); 
• Ability to use creative thinking to identify solutions for complex processes and/or issues

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:

• IIn depth experience with the data architecture discipline including various database design techniques, modeling tools, and data architecture principles
• Certification in Data Technology, Agile or other project management/Business Analysis application

 

Conclusion:

This role offers a unique opportunity to significantly enhance our ability to support Client Reporting Transformation activities aligned with data discovery and governance. The successful candidate will p