Data Governance Lead

5 days ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Northern Trust Full time
About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889. As a Fortune 500 company, we pride ourselves on providing innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions.

We remain true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity, and our commitment to excellence has earned us a reputation as a trusted partner in the financial industry.

Job Summary

The Cash Transaction Processing Data Lead will be responsible for overseeing Northern Trust's Cash Services (Payments & Cash Management Operations) data domain. This domain encompasses Payment Capture, Payment Settlements to Cash Book of Record, Cash and Liquidity Management, Liquidity Optimization, and associate Treasury Middle Office services for Northern Trust.

This role requires a strong understanding of data governance, data engineering, and best practices to ensure the Cash Services domain works in lockstep with and supports Northern Trust's enterprise data strategy.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead domain strategy, collaborating with business units and corporate functions to ensure domain strategy meets corporate and business goals.
  • Exhibit strong relationship management skills to ensure data owners, custodians, and consumers are meeting critical business priorities and interacting across domains as needed to solve business objectives.
  • Participate in industry forums, conferences, and with other client and partner forums to gain insight to drive domain strategy and set priority as well as shape industry change.
  • Resolve conflicting priorities among data owners, data consumers, and custodians within the sphere of the domain.
  • Drive efficiency and risk mitigation through balancing business value and cost, working with data owners and consumers to deliver an efficient operating model and data architecture.
  • Establish and implement an oversight process to provide for tracking of important business, client, and regulatory initiatives, ensuring delivery of data requirements.
  • Follow the Information Management Office data quality framework for critical fields, ensuring quality delivery of data end-to-end for the domain.
  • Engage appropriate data consumers to define their critical data and work across business units to gain agreement on critical data standards and alignment.
  • Coordinate and implement data quality remediation efforts to ensure data meets the standards identified by the enterprise.
  • Oversee periodic reviews to ensure continued compliance with the data governance policies, including compliance assessments, monitoring, and control testing.
  • Create or update document taxonomies and actively participate in the semantic reconciliation of data models.
Requirements
  • Understand and be capable of effectively communicating the role of Data Governance to both business and technical communities within the sphere of the data domain.
  • Understand key business drivers of those functions which enter, modify, manage, and consume the data within the domain.
  • Possess broad-based knowledge of the domain data.
  • Understand all aspects of defining and implementing data quality management.
  • Capable of engaging senior leadership with business, operations, and technology.
  • Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Possess strong leadership and organizational awareness skills.
  • Possess proven facilitation and conflict resolution skills.
  • Possess exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.
  • Capable of addressing data issues proactively.
Experience
  • A College or University degree and/or data governance and quality work experience is required.
  • 10+ years' experience in financial services.
  • Deep domain knowledge.
  • Strong cross-business unit experience leading enterprise initiatives.


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