Vice President-Firmwide Data Owner Lead

Join a firmwide data organization at a leading global financial institution that is accelerating its data, analytics, and artificial intelligence journey. This team focuses on improving how data is governed, protected, and used to drive better decisions and outcomes. You will work with senior stakeholders across functions to build practical frameworks, tooling, and governance that scale. The role offers high visibility, broad partnership, and opportunities to shape strategy and execution across the firm.

As a Vice President-Firmwide Data Owner Lead in the Firmwide Chief Data Office within the Chief Data and Analytics Office, you will build strong partnerships with senior leaders in Chief Data Officer organizations and facilitate discussions on how we design, implement, and evolve the Data Ownership framework mandated by the firm’s data risk management policy and standards. You will leverage those partnerships to develop and lead additional firmwide data governance or strategic initiatives to improve data risk management. You will help drive practical, simple, and effective approaches that support oversight, transparency, and business impact.

Data Owners are accountable for the oversight and governance of data risks, including use, storage, protection, quality, retention, and destruction. You will help standardize and clarify Data Owner roles and responsibilities across stakeholders to improve consistency and execution. You will also support senior-level reporting and readiness for regulatory, compliance, and audit engagement.

Job responsibilities 

• Lead the roll-out of Data Owner implementation across lines of business and corporate functions
• Partner with technology to build tools and capabilities to centrally track Data Owners and associated entitlements or deliverables
• Analyze and enhance governing documents so that the Data Owner program provides a practical, simple, and effective framework for data management that delivers business impact
• Normalize roles and responsibilities related to the Data Owner role to support the streamlining and transparency of data risk management oversight
• Create metrics and summarized materials to support senior and executive presentations and reporting
• Develop and lead firmwide data governance initiatives to improve data risk management
• Partner with Technology, Risk, Business Operations, and data leaders across lines of business and corporate functions
• Support regulatory, compliance, and audit requests
• Deliver centralized Data Owner training program and communications created for the benefit of line-of-business and corporate-function stakeholders
• Manage a team to support the goals of the governance program and stay informed of regulatory and industry developments impacting data governance and management
• Support other data governance initiatives, as needed

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• 10+ years of relevant experience with proven track record of strong program management delivery within a risk management environment
• Proven leader and influencer with the ability to think on their feet
• Ability to apply critical thinking and a logical, structured framework to shape the program’s approach
• Capacity to think laterally and convey an understanding of the big picture
• Outstanding analytical, written, and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex ideas, concepts, and solutions at the senior management level
• Strong interpersonal skills; comfortable partnering with people at all levels and across functional areas (for example, Legal, Compliance, Controls, Technology, and Business Operations) and across stakeholders with varying needs and opinions
• Ability to synthesize feedback to drive practical solutions to complex problems
• Experience developing and implementing policies, standards, procedures, or guidance documents to be used by a wide range of users
• Ability to work under pressure to deliver multiple business demands on time with high quality
• Ability to work through ambiguity to reach conclusions and effectively develop and lead projects; experience in project management; self-starter able to work autonomously with discipline
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word and PowerPoint

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills 

• Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree preferred
• Understanding of the firm’s risk and control environment and business practices; familiarity with the firm’s products and services
• Knowledge of data risk management preferred