Manager Data Management - IT Data Management Headquarters

We are a forward-thinking electric utility powered by a diverse team of employees committed to making customers’ lives brighter, the environment better and our communities stronger.

First Energy (NYSE: FE) is dedicated to safety, reliability, and operational excellence. Headquartered in Akron, Ohio, First Energy includes one of the nation's largest investor-owned electric systems, more than 24,500 miles of transmission lines that connect the Midwest and Mid‑Atlantic regions, and a regulated generating fleet with a total capacity of 3,780 megawatts.

The Manager, Data Management is responsible for leading First Energy’s enterprise data management function across two connected areas: data governance and data platform management. This role provides leadership, operational management, and execution oversight for the enterprise data governance and data platform management functions.

The governance function focuses on establishing and sustaining enterprise standards, decision rights, stewardship, access controls, data quality practices, and responsible AI and data use. The platform management function provides oversight of the standards, operating model, controls, reliability, cost visibility, and continuous improvement of modern enterprise data platform capabilities, including Databricks and related hybrid data ecosystem components. Together, this ensures data assets and the platforms that support them are trusted, secure, reliable, accessible, cost‑conscious, and positioned to support analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, regulatory obligations, and enterprise decision‑making.

This leader partners with Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Legal, Compliance, Operations, Customer, analytics, data engineering, data science, and business stakeholders to connect governance expectations with practical platform execution, enabling teams to deliver data products and insights safely, efficiently, and consistently.

• Establish, implement, sustain and continuously improve the enterprise data governance framework, including policies, standards, decision rights, stewardship expectations, and accountability models.
• Lead core governance forums and stakeholder engagement activities to promote consistent data management practices across business and technology teams.
• Oversee enterprise data access practices, including role‑based access, approval standards, periodic access reviews, and alignment with security, privacy, records retention, regulatory, and internal control expectations.
• Maintain practical data quality expectations, issue escalation paths, scorecards, and remediation coordination with data owners, stewards, and technology partners.
• Support responsible AI and data usage governance by partnering with Cybersecurity, Legal, Compliance, Risk Management, data science, and business teams on standards, risk considerations, and governance evidence.

• Provide management oversight for enterprise data platform capabilities, standards, operating practices, and roadmap alignment, with emphasis on reliability, security, governance readiness, developer experience, and business continuity.
• Oversee Databricks and related platform management practices, including workspace and environment standards, Unity Catalog governance patterns, compute and cluster controls, workflow enablement, audit logging, monitoring, and platform support expectations.
• Partner with cloud engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure, Dev Ops, and data engineering teams to establish guardrails for authentication, authorization, service…