Data Risk Lead

Huntington National Bank•Columbus, OH

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Huntington Bank is seeking a Data Risk Lead to help lead the creation, tracking, and enforcement of enterprise data governance processes. The role contributes to developing and maintaining data policies, standards, controls, and the broader Data Governance framework, while serving as a technical leader and developing team members. The Data Risk Lead supports enterprise data governance capabilities and partners across the bank on data sharing agreements, governance documentation, policy and privacy matters, and stakeholder meetings. The position works with internal partners and data analytics teams to develop data solutions that support customers, communities, colleagues, and Huntington’s goal of becoming America’s best-performing regional bank. It leads the design and enablement of processes and technology that enforce data rules, supports federated teams in meeting policy requirements, and helps monitor adherence to governance policies. The position is onsite/hybrid in Columbus, Ohio only.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
At least 7 years of experience implementing data governance frameworks, such as data policies, standards, and controls.
Hands-on experience developing and/or implementing data management, governance policy, and standards.
Experience working with IT and/or business segments to analyze complex business processes and data governance needs.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading project teams, with or without formal direct reporting relationships.
History of developing and monitoring efficient and effective processes to solve diverse and complex data problems.
Extensive experience performing data maturity assessments.
Experience synthesizing programmatic and policy information from multiple sources and researching and drafting policy and standards documents.
Experience tracking data policies, standards, and controls throughout their lifecycle, including monitoring, enforcement, and close-out, and facilitating and documenting meetings with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
A proven track record in Data Governance influencing the direction of data policies, standards, controls, and data lifecycle management.
Risk management, regulatory, compliance, and/or audit experience.
Experience in strategy, process improvement, or management consulting.
Ability to drive requirements effectively and gain consensus.
In-depth knowledge of governance policy, standards, and controls processes.
Ability to constructively challenge requirements and the current state to increase organizational value.
Knowledge of current data policy decisions, guidelines, and business trends.
Ability to translate long-term visions into broadly accepted actionable roadmaps.
Ability to translate business and functional needs into policy, standards, and controls requirements and estimate their impact across the data lifecycle.
Strong partnership and collaboration skills, including cross-functional work with business and technology stakeholders.
Excellent executive communication and business writing skills, including drafting business requirements.
Ability to quickly understand changes to key business processes and their impact on the Data Governance framework.
In-depth understanding of business-segment objectives and how Data Policy and Standards support them.
Strong ability to analyze complex situations and derive workable actions.
Ability to identify, prioritize, and weigh options and recommend value-added solutions.
Flexibility to manage multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change.
Strong analytical skills.
Ability to build strong relationships throughout the organization.
High level of organization and attention to detail.
Negotiation, influencing, and partnership skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Self-starter who can work independently.
Business-outcome focus and demonstrated perseverance.
Ability to train less experienced colleagues in day-to-day activities.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional efforts.

Responsibilities

Manage relationships with Audit, Compliance, Risk, Legal, and other internal partners to identify and define data policies, standards, and controls.
Lead the Data Governance team in developing extensible frameworks and existing data rules, including localized requirements from Policy Groups.
Capture stakeholder requirements, document processes, and serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders.
Lead the design and enablement of technology and processes used to enforce data rules.
Create processes and design components of the Data Governance framework and Data Policies capability.
Manage and document stakeholder requirements; work with project management to track progress and provide status updates.
Gather feedback from solution teams and service lines to inform Data Policies capability services, and lead junior team members.
Create and maintain a process and repository for governance best practices.
Lead communications to educate stakeholders on data policy frameworks.
Support federated teams in meeting policy requirements.
Lead data management teams in implementing data quality, metadata and lineage, data sourcing and usage, and data issue management requirements.
Track and monitor data-control implementation across the organization.
Develop metrics for monitoring and tracking adherence to Data Governance Policy.
Manage development of toolkits and guidelines for federated teams implementing policy requirements.
Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team members.
Work with stakeholders to understand business needs and ensure services meet those needs.
Anticipate technology trends and assess their impact on the Data Governance framework.
Perform other duties as assigned.