Data Governance Lead Consultant

Truist Financial • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Lead Data Governance Consultant is responsible for supporting Data Governance across the enterprise, enabling business growth while ensuring compliance with risk and regulatory expectations. The position partners with various business and technology stakeholders to influence and drive adoption of related Enterprise Data Management strategies, policies, standards and control frameworks. The role evaluates established and emerging data practices and technologies to drive the team's direction, while implementing innovative processes and solutions to provide competitive advantage while meeting rigorous control and oversight mandates. Specifically, we are looking for a Data Governance Tech Lead to provide the dedicated, single-point ownership required to build our data lineage capability to ensure the success of DRT program. This role is crucial for bridging the gap between business needs, platform teams, and vendor solutions—a complex coordination effort currently lacking a leader who can drive the activities. Their primary function will be to coordinate approaches, manage cross-functional dependencies, ensure the successful delivery of a unified technical solution/adoption and communicating across vertical and horizontal teams. This leadership is the key to establishing data lineage into a functional, adopted capability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• Ten years of experience in roles with increasing responsibilities in technology, data management, governance, risk or related practice or equivalent education and related training or experience.
• Large program strategic planning/execution across multiple functions.

Nice To Haves

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) or other graduate or advanced-level certification.
• History of effective performance within shared service, matrix or federated environments.
• Internal or external consulting experience.
• Experience with formalized organizational assessment practices (e.g. Capability Maturity Model), including implementation of recommended improvements.
• Knowledge of data tools and platforms used for managing, storing, querying, testing, loading and transforming data (e.g. SAS, Informatica, Oracle, Teradata) or relevant data certifications (e.g. CIPP, CIPM).

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain policies, standards and technology in support of enterprise Data Governance.
• Create and implement processes and procedures to support data standards and control frameworks.
• Provide subject matter expertise in the planning and execution of data management activities such as data sourcing, metadata management, data quality, data privacy or records management.
• Drive solution design and execution of multi-pronged data governance efforts that span across platforms and business/technology areas to address enterprise data needs.
• Implement strategic data governance capabilities by working with business and technology partners to document requirements and create action plans.
• Perform oversight and inspection of critical data management practices for adherence to established data policies and control frameworks.
• Identify data issues and work with technology, risk and business partners to triage, track, communicate, mitigate and remediate the issues to closure.
• Support the production of metrics and measures to track progress and adherence, escalating as needed to various committees for visibility and program accountability.
• Understand and integrate relevant regulations and industry trends into work plans, exploring emerging frameworks and assessing feasibility using proof of concepts.
• Collaborate closely with peer teams to ensure coordination, synergy and seamless overall execution.
• Champion and drive improvement in enterprise data management practices throughout the organization.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance.
• Disability and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• Tax-preferred savings accounts.
• 401k plan.
• No less than 10 days of vacation during the first year of employment.
• 10 sick days.
• Paid holidays.
• Defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree