DIRECTOR, ENTERPRISE DATA

STAR Financial Bank•Fort Wayne, IN

About The Position

As a Director, Enterprise Data, the essential responsibilities include developing, owning, and executing the enterprise data and analytics strategy aligned with the bank’s strategic plan, technology roadmap, and risk management expectations. This role owns the enterprise data governance roadmap, analytics prioritization process, and standards for certified reporting, dashboards, and self-service analytics. The Director will establish enterprise standards for key metrics, data definitions, semantic models, dashboards, management reporting, and board-level reporting. The position enables revenue growth, operational efficiency, risk management, customer insights, and executive decision-making through trusted data and analytics. This role oversees the development of analytical models, reporting capabilities, and performance dashboards to support operational, financial, strategic, and regulatory decisions. The Director will define KPIs and performance dashboards used by executive leadership and board-level committees. This role partners with executive leadership to translate information needs into scalable analytics solutions and data platform capabilities, and provides direction to business data owners and stewards across all major business lines. The Director will recommend data platform investments, vendor selections, and resource allocation needed to support enterprise data and analytics priorities. This role identifies opportunities to reduce manual reporting, improve data quality, increase reporting consistency, and mature the organization’s use of data. The Director will establish and enforce a formal data governance framework including ownership, stewardship, access, retention, classification, lineage, quality, and control standards. This role chairs or co-chairs the enterprise data governance council and leads a cross-functional data governance team of 5 to 10 representatives. The Director ensures analytics, reporting, and data governance practices support regulatory, audit, model risk, privacy, information security, and data classification expectations. This role partners with Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Information Security, and Technology on data controls, reporting integrity, access governance, and control documentation. The Director maintains examiner-ready documentation for critical data sources, lineage, definitions, certified reports, dashboards, and controls. This role defines and monitors data quality metrics, leads remediation of data integrity issues, and escalates material data concerns to executive leadership as appropriate. The Director establishes standards for data ownership, data stewardship, certified datasets, reporting governance, and responsible use of analytics across the organization. Additionally, the Director leads, coaches, and develops a team of 2 to 5 data analysts, data scientists, BI developers, and related data professionals. This includes establishing goals, performance expectations, development plans, and accountability measures for staff. The Director recruits, onboards, and retains analytical and technical talent to meet current and future business needs. This role provides matrix leadership to business data owners, stewards, and subject matter experts supporting enterprise data governance and analytics initiatives. The Director builds team capabilities in data governance, business intelligence, data visualization, reporting automation, analytics, and financial services data practices.

Requirements

8 or more years of progressive experience in data analytics, business intelligence, data governance, financial services data, data management, or related fields.
3 or more years leading teams, enterprise programs, or cross-functional data governance and analytics initiatives.
Experience establishing data governance frameworks, data quality controls, reporting standards, and enterprise analytics practices.
Experience partnering with executive leadership, business unit leaders, risk, compliance, internal audit, information security, and technology teams.
Experience supporting regulatory, audit, privacy, information security, data classification, or reporting integrity requirements in a regulated environment.
Ability to translate business needs into scalable analytics solutions, platform requirements, reporting standards, and actionable insights.

Responsibilities

Develop, own, and execute the enterprise data and analytics strategy aligned with the bank’s strategic plan, technology roadmap, and risk management expectations.
Own the enterprise data governance roadmap, analytics prioritization process, and standards for certified reporting, dashboards, and self-service analytics.
Establish enterprise standards for key metrics, data definitions, semantic models, dashboards, management reporting, and board-level reporting.
Enable revenue growth, operational efficiency, risk management, customer insights, and executive decision-making through trusted data and analytics.
Oversee development of analytical models, reporting capabilities, and performance dashboards to support operational, financial, strategic, and regulatory decisions.
Define KPIs and performance dashboards used by executive leadership and board-level committees.
Partner with executive leadership to translate information needs into scalable analytics solutions and data platform capabilities.
Provide direction to business data owners and stewards across all major business lines.
Recommend data platform investments, vendor selections, and resource allocation needed to support enterprise data and analytics priorities.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual reporting, improve data quality, increase reporting consistency, and mature the organization’s use of data.
Establish and enforce a formal data governance framework including ownership, stewardship, access, retention, classification, lineage, quality, and control standards.
Chair or co-chair the enterprise data governance council and lead a cross-functional data governance team of 5 to 10 representatives.
Ensure analytics, reporting, and data governance practices support regulatory, audit, model risk, privacy, information security, and data classification expectations.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Information Security, and Technology on data controls, reporting integrity, access governance, and control documentation.
Maintain examiner-ready documentation for critical data sources, lineage, definitions, certified reports, dashboards, and controls.
Define and monitor data quality metrics, lead remediation of data integrity issues, and escalate material data concerns to executive leadership as appropriate.
Establish standards for data ownership, data stewardship, certified datasets, reporting governance, and responsible use of analytics across the organization.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of 2 to 5 data analysts, data scientists, BI developers, and related data professionals.
Establish goals, performance expectations, development plans, and accountability measures for staff.
Recruit, onboard, and retain analytical and technical talent to meet current and future business needs.
Provide matrix leadership to business data owners, stewards, and subject matter experts supporting enterprise data governance and analytics initiatives.
Build team capabilities in data governance, business intelligence, data visualization, reporting automation, analytics, and financial services data practices.