Senior Manager, Data Management

Royal Bank of Canada•Edina, MN

1d•$90,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

The WM Americas Data Management Office (DMO) is establishing effective data governance capabilities that balance defensive and offensive governance to comply with policy and regulatory expectations while enabling USWM to leverage data and AI to grow the business. The Senior Manager, Data Management is a strategically important role in the WM Americas DMO that collaborates with business stakeholders, IT, the Enterprise CDO, and other Data Management Offices across RBC to execute on data governance standards of care for high-risk data to comply with the Enterprise Information Management (IM) Risk Policy and extend the standards of care to other high value data assets. You will be responsible for planning, management, and execution of foundational processes to implement data management standards of care. The role will have exposure to many elements of data management and governance including data risk management, data accountability, metadata management, lineage and sourcing, data quality, and issue management and resolution.

Requirements

Strong knowledge and previous experience working with data management, governance and risk concepts and capabilities including data dictionaries, lineage, metadata management, data quality and controls, and issue remediation
Previous experience in Wealth Management, ideally in data governance or risk management role
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) including meeting facilitation and presentation skills, with a proven track record of simplifying and distilling complicated messages
Strategic thinker with proven ability to drive results in a cross-functional environment
Strong organizational awareness, demonstrated ability to anticipate and communication risks and issues and escalate when required
Proven collaboration, impact, influence and change management capabilities across business, IT, and functions

Nice To Haves

Experience/knowledge of regulatory reporting requirements for US financial services organizations
Project/program management, change management, and/or business analysis experience
Working knowledge of the data management tools including Collibra, Informatica, Snowflake and Data Quality tools

Responsibilities

Grow and leverage relationships with stakeholders across Business Units, IT and Enterprise Functions to establish effective and sustainable data management and governance practices across USWM, in alignment with Global WM data governance strategy.
Assess the current state maturity of the USWM’s data governance capabilities (accountability, metadata management, lineage, data sourcing, data quality and controls) according to our enterprise data risk policy and standards and drive improvements to our maturity level through implementation of data standards of care
Champion and effect change with cross-functional partners in adopting agile, modern, non-invasive governance practices and processes that satisfy regulatory and audit requirements, including refresh and attestation processes
Assess and curate information in the data governance and metadata management platform, manage large changes in existing tooling, and recommend new tooling as required
Lead continuous improvement projects to elevate current artefacts and develop scalable processes as we extend into new areas of data (e.g. AI use and governance) with business partners
Develop engagement models and frameworks when working with new horizontal teams such as Program Management Offices, Business Analysis COE, Regulatory, Control Testing teams, Operations etc.

Benefits

bonuses
flexible benefits
competitive compensation
commissions
stock where applicable
Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
A world-class training program in financial services
Flexible work/life balance options
Opportunities to do challenging work