Senior Director - Data Governance Program Lead

FINRA, a financial industry regulator, possesses a massive amount of data and is dedicated to maximizing its value to protect investors and safeguard market integrity. Establishing a formal data governance program is crucial to achieving this mission. We are actively recruiting a highly experienced leader to spearhead the data governance program and establish an efficient and highly effective data governance framework. The Senior Director will be instrumental in shaping and implementing FINRA's data policies in collaboration with stakeholders while representing the Data Management and Governance Office (DMGO) in driving company-wide initiatives on data awareness, quality, privacy, and security. This influential position is expected to drive consensus, establish widely accepted procedures, and deploy pragmatic yet unobtrusive controls.

At FINRA, we infuse innovation into how we work. We use cutting-edge technologies like AI, machine learning, cloud computing, and big data analytics to protect investors and ensure market integrity. As a result of our pioneering work, Computerworld ranked us #2 globally as a Best Place to work in IT among mid-sized companies in 2024. Join our forward-thinking culture and elevate your career.

Essential Job Functions:

• Review, enhance, and operate the data governance program, which includes data discovery, awareness, access, quality, and risk management processes. 

• Drive alignment and implementation of an enterprise-wide Data Governance operating model, ensuring a clear understanding of data ownership and stewardship with well-defined processes and roles. 

• Partner with security and privacy stakeholders to articulate data policies and standards, and as a stakeholder, work with technology to enforce them. 

• Take charge of monitoring the execution of data governance projects, course correct when necessary, and consistently produce professional, high-quality Data Governance reports, communications, and presentations. 

• Demonstrate initiative in driving results and progress of the program and projects through influence and collaboration within technology, security, privacy, and business partners. 

• Lead the development of efficient and creative Data Governance controls, implement them in partnership with the data stewards, and play a pivotal role in facilitating enterprise data maturity assessments. 

• Run monthly data policy committee meetings by taking the lead in preparing agendas, tracking policy and oversight metrics, and making necessary updates to governance program and data policies based on the committee's guidance. 

• Cultivate and maintain collaborative relationships with FINRA business users, technology partners. and data protection stakeholders, gaining support for rolling out governance programs. It includes training and sustainability of data governance management in their business units across the data domains. 

Education/Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline with at least ten (10) years of related experience, or equivalent training and / or work experience; Master’s degree and past Financial Services industry experience preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of managing technical programs and projects including staff management of at least fifteen (15) resources and budget of at least $3 million.
• Knowledge of business, technology and management principles involved in strategic planning, organizational change management, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, and coordination of people and resources.
• Subject Matter Expertise required in a minimum of one of the following disciplines, with substantial knowledge in remaining disciplines software development, operations, engineering, development services, information security, and compliance.
• Experience managing staff comprised of both employ