Compliance Data Steward

Mizuho•New York City, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Compliance Data Steward serves as the strategic lead and subject matter expert for Mizuho’s Compliance Data Domain, covering functions under the Compliance Divisions. The role stewards the Bank’s core Compliance system and ensures data is accurate, accessible, and aligned with enterprise standards. It develops the vision and strategy for key platforms supporting the domain, informed by how Compliance data is created and used across the organization and aligned with business objectives and stakeholder expectations. The position works closely with business contacts to understand data requirements, usage, and challenges, and partners with Technology to create, prioritize, and refine requirements so development teams focus on valuable features. It manages Data Stewards and Data Quality Analysts supporting the Compliance Data Domain and its subdomains, while coordinating a network of subdomain stewards and partnering with the Data Management Office and business leaders to establish clear data ownership and accountability. The Compliance Data Domain covers data related to Compliance processes, including regulatory reporting and controls. Domain responsibilities include defining and owning business use cases; managing domain data and ensuring it meets consumer needs; overseeing data quality assessments and remediation with source systems; defining data models and business definitions; and participating in enterprise data governance bodies.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in a management role at Director or Executive Director level.
3+ years of experience with Data Quality and Data Management.
Fluency in data governance, data quality, and metadata management principles.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to translate business needs into data solutions.
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and manage competing priorities.
Experience with regulatory and compliance requirements and risk management in the financial industry.
Strong ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive change programs.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience supporting Compliance functions is strongly preferred.
Experience with data design, data audit, data governance, and IT.
Experience in Compliance, Risk Management, Regulatory Reporting, or related domains.

Responsibilities

Translate enterprise workforce strategies into actionable data management plans for the Compliance Data Domain.
Lead data initiatives by defining business cases, gathering requirements, and prioritizing projects across the domain.
Establish and maintain processes aligned with Enterprise Data Policy and Standards.
Oversee access and provisioning of Compliance data, define access controls, support data users, and ensure compliance with Data Service Agreements and regulatory standards.
Ensure Compliance data is governed in accordance with enterprise policies and controls.
Act as a change agent within the domain and influence movement toward a data-driven culture.
Manage definitions of golden sources and systems of record for in-scope data, including data used in aggregation, regulatory reporting, and control processes.
Support stakeholders in defining, validating, and maintaining business definitions for data elements.
Maintain accountability for data lineage and technical metadata for domain data elements.
Identify needed metadata changes and assess their impacts, including impacts to regulatory and compliance reporting data elements.
Support stakeholders in developing and managing data quality controls that meet consumer requirements.
Oversee data quality issue remediation by prioritizing issues and reviewing and challenging remediation plans, especially for issues affecting regulatory accuracy or compliance oversight decisions.
Lead and coordinate data professionals supporting Compliance domains, including direct management of Data Quality Analysts and oversight of subdomain stewards.
Establish, develop, and oversee a network of Sub-Domain Data Stewards across Compliance, ensuring domain coverage, clear accountability, and effective stewardship.
Partner with the Data Management Office and business leaders to formalize the Sub-Domain Data Steward model.
Engage business contacts to understand data requirements, data use, and challenges; partner with Technology to define, prioritize, and refine development requirements.