About Northern Trust:
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.
Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.
The Data Management Enablement (DME) team within the Enterprise Data group is seeking a highly skilled Senior Associate, Data Management to join the team and serve as a data management subject matter expert.
The ideal candidate will play a critical role in the product development, operational support, and continuous enhancement of Northern Trust’s enterprise data governance platform (Collibra). This role partners closely with Product Owners, Technology, Data Quality, Architecture, and Business stakeholders to ensure scalable, compliant, and user‑centric data governance solutions.
You will assist in identifying business improvement opportunities, analyzing business requirements, and translating them into functional specifications. You will also support the product owner in defining the product roadmap, driving enhancements and solutions, defining user stories, coordinating UAT, and ensuring a high‑quality end‑user experience across the data governance ecosystem.
In addition, you will provide hands‑on operational support to data producers and consumers, including support for metadata management, data quality, attestation workflows, role management, and marketplace adoption.
Key Responsibilities1. Requirements Analysis & Functional Design- Collaborate with business, technology, and data governance stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Translate business needs into functional specifications, workflow logic, and configuration requirements for Collibra.
- Assess impacts to downstream processes such as metadata attestation, lineage, data quality, and regulatory reporting.
- Act as a bridge between business users and technical teams, ensuring requirements are clearly understood and implemented.
- Support the Product Owner in defining and maintaining the Collibra product roadmap.
- Identify opportunities to enhance data governance workflows, automation, usability, and scalability.
- Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps (ADO).
- Partner with engineering and platform teams to clarify requirements, review designs, and support delivery.
- Plan, coordinate, and execute UAT activities for Collibra enhancements, upgrades, and new capabilities.
- Facilitate UAT sessions with business users and data practitioners.
- Validate fixes related to metadata workflows, data quality rules, scanning, classification, and role‑based access.
- Support release readiness, including defect triage, workaround documentation, and production validation.
- Provide day‑to‑day operational support to Data Management Practitioners such as Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Domain Leads.
- Support and troubleshoot:
- Metadata and role attestation workflows
- Business term and glossary management
- Data quality (DQ/DQM) issues and UAT/PROD readiness
- Role assignments, delegations, and permissions
- Inbox and workflow task escalations
- Partner with Data Quality, Architecture, and Platform teams during incidents, upgrades, and audits.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to end users on how to effectively use Collibra.
- Communicate roles, responsibilities, and governance expectations clearly to stakeholders.
- Develop and deliver training, job aids, and guidance for new and existing users.
- Actively identify friction points and usability gaps impacting adoption.
- Collect, analyze, and synthesize user feedback from office hours, support interactions, and UAT sessions.
- Translate feedback into actionable backlog items and roadmap enhancements.
- Ensure enhancements improve usability, compliance, and operational efficiency.
- Support reporting and dashboards (e.g., attestation status, compliance metrics) to ensure accurate governance insights.
- Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Data Management, or a related field.
- Proven hands‑on experience with Collibra or similar enterprise data governance platforms.
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality, and attestation concepts.
- Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements.
- Ability to bridge business and technology through clear communication and structured problem‑solving.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
- High‑level experience with Collibra’s data model, workflows, and configuration capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience as a Data Management Practitioner supporting Collibra in an enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with data quality tooling (e.g., Collibra DQ, Ataccama, Informatica etc.) and operational support models.
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) for backlog management, user stories, and UAT tracking.
- Understanding of user experience (UX) and user‑centered design principles.
- Ability to partner with IT and business to deliver intuitive, scalable governance solutions.
- Exposure to audit, regulatory, or compliance‑driven data governance environments.
Salary Range:
Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
Working with Us:
As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas.
Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve! Join a workplace with a greater purpose.
We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies! Build your career with us and apply today. #MadeForGreater
Reasonable accommodation
Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at [email protected].
We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.
Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements and together we can achieve greater.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, or related field
- Proven hands-on experience with Collibra or similar enterprise data governance platforms
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality, and attestation concepts
- Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements
- Ability to bridge business and technology through clear communication and structured problem-solving
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills
- High-level experience with Collibra's data model, workflows, and configuration capabilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience as a Data Management Practitioner supporting Collibra in an enterprise environment
- Familiarity with data quality tooling (e.g., Collibra DQ, Ataccama, Informatica) and operational support models
- Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) for backlog management, user stories, and UAT tracking
- Understanding of user experience (UX) and user-centered design principles
- Exposure to audit, regulatory, or compliance-driven data governance environments
Northern Trust Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Northern Trust and has not been reviewed or approved by Northern Trust.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as a standout, with a 401(k) plus an additional employer-funded pension described as a differentiator. This combination is repeatedly framed as a meaningful offset within total rewards, especially for long-term financial security.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are depicted as generous, spanning paid time off, holidays, and dedicated paid volunteer time. The breadth of leave options is highlighted as a consistent strength that supports work-life balance.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is characterized as comprehensive, typically including medical, dental, vision, and mental-health support through an assistance program. The offering is portrayed as robust and family-supportive, with multiple plan options in some descriptions.
Northern Trust Insights
What We Do
As a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing and investment solutions, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is proud to guide the world’s most successful individuals, families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise and integrity. A globally recognized Fortune 500 Company in continuous operation since 1889, we’ve built a legacy of empowering clients to reach their goals with confidence. Since our roots as a trust bank, we’ve grown to a global presence with more than 24,000 employees in more than 20 countries and across six core business units: Wealth Management Asset Management Asset Servicing Technology Corporate Functions Enterprise Operations Join a Team That’s Achieving Greater At Northern Trust, we refer to our employees as partners – with good reason. We understand that relationships are the key to our success. Here you’ll join a diverse and inclusive team of innovators with the drive to challenge the way things have always been done. Instead of choosing between a dynamic career and work-life balance, enjoy working with a team that supports your goals in the office and at home. We’ll help you get where you want to go without sacrificing what matters most to you. Delivering value and adhering to our enduring principles What are enduring principles? Since our founding, they have guided our strategy and success. Thanks to the dedication of our partners, Northern Trust continues to thrive by adhering to three enduring principles: service, expertise and integrity . What does this mean? Service Northern Trust has a relentless drive to provide exceptional service to our clients, our partners and our communities. We set new standards and go above and beyond in our commitment to delivering greater results. Expertise Expertise is at the core of who we are. We focus sharply on what we do well. From expanding our capabilities, to hiring talented professionals to developing innovative solutions, our expertise is why we continue to be a trusted advisor for generations of families and institutions. Integrity Operating with uncompromising ethics is central to Northern Trust’s heritage. As a result, our clients, partners and communities know they can rely on us. For more than 130 years, our integrity has been our guide – and that will never change.
Why Work With Us
At Northern Trust, we go further because we go together. We embrace flexibility, encourage balance, and prioritize inclusion at all levels, working together to keep you connected. We are committed to our employees—all 24,000 of them. Whether this is a first step or a bold new leap in your career, we’re here to help you move forward.
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