Data Governance Manager

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Data Governance Manager to lead enterprise‑wide data quality initiatives across our banking organization. The role will define and implement data quality strategies, standards, and controls that align with regulatory requirements and our overall data governance framework.

Key responsibilities

• Define and implement enterprise data quality strategies, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Identify Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and establish data quality rules, thresholds, controls, and KPIs.
• Drive data quality improvement projects across Retail, Corporate, Treasury, Risk, Finance, Compliance and other functions.
• Design measurement frameworks covering accuracy, completeness, consistency, validity, timeliness and uniqueness.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, scorecards and KPIs to monitor data quality trends.
• Investigate and remediate data quality issues through root‑cause analysis and corrective action plans.
• Collaborate with technology and data engineering teams to implement automated controls and validation rules.
• Provide data quality expertise to business, risk, finance, compliance, data owners and stewards.
• Support regulatory reporting by ensuring critical datasets meet quality and control requirements.
• Evaluate and implement modern data quality, governance, catalog and analytics technologies, leveraging AI/ML for profiling and anomaly detection.

Required profile

• 14+ years of experience in banking, data management, data governance or related fields.
• Minimum 10 years of hands‑on experience in data quality and data governance, preferably in financial services.
• Strong understanding of banking processes, systems, data domains and regulatory requirements.
• Proven ability to lead large‑scale data quality initiatives and modernize platforms.

Required skills

• SQL for complex queries, data analysis and profiling.
• AI/ML techniques for data profiling, anomaly detection and automation.
• Experience with data quality and data governance tools/platforms.