Head of Data Governance
Tradeweb•New York, NY
•$175,000 - $240,000•Hybrid
About The Position
Tradeweb is seeking a senior, strategic and execution-oriented Head of Data Governance to build, enhance and oversee our Data Governance framework. This individual will establish a Data Governance function and partner with senior stakeholders across functions to drive oversight of Data Ownership, Data Quality, Data Lineage, Data Security, and Data Privacy.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 12+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or data risk within financial services or trading platforms.
- Strong background in capital markets, electronic trading, or fintech environments.
- Deep understanding of data governance frameworks, operating models, regulatory requirements and tools (e.g. Collibra)
- Demonstrated success building or transforming enterprise data governance programs.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills; ability to influence senior leaders and obtain buy-in.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in complex organizations and drive pragmatic solutions.
- Demonstrated leadership in executing and scaling governance frameworks, with strong communication and team management capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Establish Data Governance frameworks, including roles, responsibilities, policies, standards and oversight forums.
- Define data ownership models across business domains; ensure key data roles are identified and individuals are trained on expected roles and responsibilities (e.g. Data Owners, Data Stewards).
- Establish enterprise data quality standards, metrics, and monitoring capabilities; ensure consistent adoption across the Firm.
- Define and enforce data standards for AI use cases, ensuring consistency, quality, lineage and appropriate controls across AI applications.
- Embed a Data Risk & Control framework in partnership with Operational/Data Risk functions to identify, assess and mitigate data-related risks, including formal review and approval of risk acceptances.
- Provide governance and oversight of data supporting regulatory reporting, ensuring data lineage, traceability, accuracy and completeness in line with regulatory expectations.
- Define and track governance KPIs/KRIs, with regular reporting and escalation to senior stakeholders.
- Evaluate, select and provide oversight of data governance tooling and platforms (e.g. catalog, lineage, quality), ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and scalability.
Benefits
- Health Insurance: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
- Hybrid Environment: Our employees have the flexibility of working in the office and from home.
- Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Maven Family Building Benefit: Maven offers support for fertility and preconception; pregnancy and post-partum; adoption; surrogacy and pediatrics for children up to age 10. Tradeweb provide a $10,000 lifetime reimbursement towards fertility, egg freezing, adoption and surrogacy expenses.
- 401(k) Savings Plan: Employees are immediately eligible for the 401(k) plan. Participants may contribute up to 75% of eligible compensation into a traditional 401(k) and/or Roth 401(k). Tradeweb will match 100% of the first 4% of compensation that you contribute.
- Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Program
- ARAG Legal Services
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Financial Wellness Tools
- Travel Assistance Benefits
- Pet Insurance
- Corporate Gym Subsidies
- Wellness Perks
- Paid Time Off and Parental Leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
