Senior Manager - Data Quality and Metadata Management

Senior Manager, Data Quality And Metadata Management

The Senior Manager, Data Quality and Metadata Management leads enterprise-wide data governance initiatives across Data Quality, Metadata Management, and Critical Data Elements (CDEs) in alignment with the Enterprise Data Strategy. This role drives data management practices within a highly regulated banking environment, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and interactions with regulatory organizations. The leader partners across business, risk, legal, and technology teams to establish strong data controls, oversee metadata and governance platforms such as Collibra, and improve data quality outcomes that support critical business and regulatory reporting.

Success in this role requires hands-on leadership, strong banking risk and governance expertise, exceptional written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to provide clear direction, develop teams, and elevate data management capabilities through strategic execution.

Essential Job Functions

• Accountable for the implementation of data management capabilities such as data cataloging, data lineage, data profiling and monitoring. Develop the Data Management roadmap for multiple capabilities and lead the execution of the roadmap.
  
  - (40%)
• Work with partners across the organization to garner engagement in data management deliverables, ensure clarity of roles, meet communication & training needs and identify areas for improvement.
  
  - (30%)
• Influence strategy, create the roadmap and manage delivery of the roadmap for all capabilities. Manage a distributed team across the U.S. and India, including hiring, active coaching and working to remove any challenges. Ensure all team objectives are met by actively working alongside the team - (30%)

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 10-13 years of experience in Data Quality Management, Metadata Management, Data Analysis, Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Master Data Management. Demonstrated experience leading a Data Management function.
• 3+ years of leadership experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Information Management, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or Business. or equivalent, relevant work experience
• DAMA or DCAM
• 6+ years of experience in Banking and Financial services, particularly in card processing.
• Experience with enterprise data governance and metadata management platforms, preferably Collibra and/or Informatica.
• Deep understanding of Data Quality, Metadata Management, and Critical Data Elements (CDEs) within complex organizations.
• Prior experience supporting data management initiatives in a highly regulated banking or financial services environment.
• Familiarity with banking regulatory expectations and interactions with regulators.

Skills

• Data Quality
• Metadata Management
• Data Management
• Data Governance
• Data Analysis
• Establishing Procedures
• Agile Projects
• Metrics Reporting

Reports To:

Director and above Direct Reports: 6 - 10 Work Environment

• Normal office environment. (Remote or Hybrid), 3 to 4 days per month are required in office if within 60 miles of a posted Bread Financial location.

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 10% annually

Physical and Mental Requirements To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily and meet the physical, mental and work environment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, absent undue hardship.

• Communicate/Hearing
• Communicate/Talking
• Move/Traverse
• Reaching
• Typing/Writing
• Focus and complete tasks in situations that have a speed or productivity metric
• Maintain focus in high pressure or fast-paced work environment

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

Salary Range (unless otherwise noted below):

$ - $

Full Salary Range for position:

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The actual base pay within this range may be dependent upon many factors,…