Senior Vice President, Data Governance

$100,000 - $221,000/Yr

BNY Mellon - Pennington, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Pennington, NJ

10,001+ employees

Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

About the position

At BNY, our culture empowers you to grow and succeed. As a leading global financial services company at the center of the world's financial system, we touch nearly 20% of the world's investible assets. Every day around the globe, our 50,000+ employees bring the power of their perspective to the table to create solutions with our clients that benefit businesses, communities, and people everywhere. We continue to be a leader in the industry, awarded as a top home for innovators and for creating an inclusive workplace. Through our unique ideas and talents, together we help make money work for the world. This is what #LifeAtBNY is all about. Pershing X is a technology company pioneering an interoperable, multi-custodial platform that unifies the core areas of wealth management. Launched in 2021, Pershing X uses its capabilities in technology design and data consolidation, and access to investment management solutions to simplify complexities found in managing an advisory business—thereby enabling wealth management professionals to increase productivity and service their clients with a seamless end-to-end experience. Our mission is helping advisors help more people. Providing timely and accurate wealth data is foundational for the interoperability of the Pershing Wove solutions. As the Senior Vice President, you will be part of our wealth data team that is responsible for the data transformation and governance powering our solutions. You will play the role of data steward and partner with stakeholders across various teams to assist with data governance and data privacy initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team to deliver data governance and data privacy initiatives.
• Engage with BNY enterprise data management practitioners to support data governance activities and drive innovation on wealth data products and services.
• Collaborate with data management teams, including data architecture, data engineering, and metadata management to ensure alignment and integration of data stewardship activities in accordance with enterprise data management policies and standards.
• Develop and maintain data lineage documentation and mappings to support data governance, regulatory, compliance, and data lineage analysis activities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on data stewardship best practices, methodologies, and tools and provide guidance and support to stakeholders across Pershing.
• Set requirements for enhancing our data governance to drive operational efficiencies, product lineage transparency, and higher data quality.
• Engage with the BNY privacy office and act as the data privacy champion supporting awareness initiatives, monitoring regulatory changes, and responding to privacy incidents.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, mathematics/statistics or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required.
• 7-10 years of total work experience in financial services preferred.
• Strong understanding of data governance principles, data quality management concepts, and regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR).
• Experience with data governance tooling and technologies, data profiling, data cleansing, and data remediation techniques.
• Strong stakeholder management and people skills, and the ability to manage multiple competing priorities under pressure.
• Strong analytical and management skills, familiar with Agile methodology and played an active role in scrums such as backlog refinement, sprint planning, and execution.
• Technical proficiency with Excel, JIRA, MS Word, MS PowerPoint is needed. Technical skills in any of the following are helpful: Python, SQL, Collibra.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in a leadership role within data governance or data management.
• Familiarity with financial regulations and compliance standards.
• Knowledge of advanced data analytics and visualization tools.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Access to flexible global resources and tools for personal and professional development.
• Generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time.
• Support for health and personal resilience.
• Opportunities for career growth and development.