Data Governance Specialist

1 month ago


Jersey City, New Jersey, United States Bank of America Full time
Job Description

Role Overview

This role will collaborate with the GRM Data Stewards, Data Users, Data Owners, and Technology Teams to understand and assess their data, processes, and technology to support strategic data initiatives, remediate deficiencies, and drive business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Consult with data stewards, process owners, subject matter experts, technical experts, end users, and other stakeholders to gather information about the current and target state business process, data attributes, and data sources.
  • Document and provide definitions for processes and procedures, data models, data quality controls, data lineage, and data dictionaries using industry-standard methods.
  • Analyze information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, segment high-level information into details, and abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding.
  • Assess and identify deficiencies against internal policies and standards or industry best practices, providing formal recommendations and requirements to remediate.
  • Collaborate and partner with technology teams, architects, and other key stakeholders to drive solutions that provide ongoing operational excellence and resiliency to metadata and control environment challenges.
  • Review and provide input to technical solution designs from a business point of view and recommend alternatives.
  • Communicate plans, progress, and risks appropriately to the stakeholders and sponsors.

Your Impact

  • Serve as a subject matter expert, building deep knowledge of data domains, supporting systems, data governance, and financial services risk management concepts.
  • Drive quality and consistency, developing standardized templates, tools, design practices to promote high-quality deliverables and consistent practices across GRM lines-of-business.
  • Drive innovation, solving complex data-related problems for GRM process owners using a variety of technical and analytical skills.
  • Own your project, managing and monitoring project execution from requirements to sourcing and evaluating the fit-for-purpose data, working with all stakeholders across GRM, Business, and Technology.

Skills for Success

Technical Expertise

  • Demonstrate the application of innovative technical solutions to solving complex data-intensive challenges.
  • Have or develop a depth of product understanding, including the ability to conceptualize solutions and employ a structured framework to evaluate features to drive definitive and strategic product decisions.
  • Strong understanding of databases, data structures, data modeling, and data mapping.
  • Understanding of business process modeling, data provisioning modeling, and entity relationship modeling.
  • Comfortable with the application of digital technology and inclusion of metadata, lineage, and controls as part of application design.

Execution Expertise

  • Ability to drive execution through disciplined oversight.
  • Ability to interpret and evaluate client's data requirement needs.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Resourceful and knows how to cultivate relationships.
  • Ability to work with a variety of different stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
  • Strong organizational and critical thinking skills.
  • Ability to lead and facilitate meetings and groups.
  • Skilled in fact-finding and data collection with strong attention to detail and precision.
  • Demonstrates an ability to set objectives and organize work appropriately to meet and exceed goals.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, system analysis, Information Systems, or related field.
  • Strong process/systems analysis, design, and documentation.
  • Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to monitor tight deadlines and adapt to unexpected requirement changes.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to lead discussions with counterparts.
  • Self-motivated with an ability to work on one's own with a strong sense of ownership and accountability in high-pressure situations.
  • Strong understanding of Risk Management and Data Management Principles.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Familiarity with one of the following areas - Trading, Consumer Banking, Wealth Management, Transaction Banking.
  • Understanding or experience of programming in SQL, C/C++, Java.
  • Familiarity with databases, such as Oracle, Hadoop, etc.

Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week: 40



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