VP Data Governance & Quality

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Global Atlantic Financial Group is a leading insurance company meeting the retirement and life insurance needs of individuals and institutions. With a strong financial foundation and risk and investment management expertise, the company delivers tailored solutions to create more secure financial futures. The company's performance has been driven by its culture and core values focused on integrity, teamwork, and the importance of building long-term client relationships. Global Atlantic is a wholly-owned subsidiary of KKR, a leading global investment firm. Through its relationship, the company leverages KKR's investment capabilities, scale and access to capital markets to enhance the value it offers clients. KKR's parent company is KKR & Co. Inc. (NYSE: KKR).

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POSITION SUMMARY:

Global Atlantic Enterprise Data organization is seeking a VP of Data Governance to lead the design and implementation of our Data Governance function. The role requires an individual with strong data governance experience and someone with exceptional leadership. The role will be hands-on and actively involved in architecting data management ecosystem. VP of Data Governance is an integral part of this, overseeing the design and implementation of advanced data management systems with a Data Governance lens to the system. Have prior technical expertise with data warehousing, ETL processes, and data processing capabilities, ensuring the highest standards with a focus to enable high data quality and simplification on accessibility of data. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Partner with business stewards/business stake holders on source systems to govern and manage data at system of records/source systems. 
• Be a stakeholder and owner on key decisions made at system of records and act as an approving authority to assess risk and impact to downstream consumers and EDH.
• Establish Data Governance and Data Quality as an authority at Global Atlantic.
• Design and manage robust data warehousing governance solutions to support our businesses (Retail, Reinsurance, Investments, Finance, Risk, Legal and Compliance, and other functions) so high quality data is available for business consumption.
• Engage on strategic initiatives across Retail, Institutional, and Investment business so Data Governance and Data Quality is integral to execution versus an afterthought.
• Partner with head of Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) to lead the strategic planning of data management initiatives.
• Provide thought leadership on advanced data processing techniques to handle large-scale data efficiently and data supply chain.
• Ensure the integrity and security of data through state-of-the-art data governance practices.
• Collaborate with IT teams to integrate new data management technologies and tools.
• Drive innovation in data analytics and modeling to support predictive analytics and machine learning efforts.
• Define KPI’s and KRI’s and actively report on these.
• Be an active voice at various committees as need be to represent Data and steer active ownership to forward Data Governance and Data Quality at Global Atlantic.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Management, or a related field.
• 5 +years of hands-on experience in MDM systems integration, Reference Data Management, data integration, data governance systems, with a proven track record of successful project implementations involving Reltio and Alation or Collibra, in large scale data management and business transformation.
• Proficiency in data integration technologies, ETL/ELT processes, data mapping tools, and MDM platforms like Reltio, Informatica MDM, Reference Data Management, or similar.
• General understanding of data warehousing concepts and ETL tools.
• Working Knowledge of Data Governance Frameworks DCAM and DAMA/PMBOK and Data Management and Stewardship Concepts.
• Experience with Bu