AVP, Metadata & Data Lineage Architect

Description

BANC OF CALIFORNIA AND YOUR CAREER

Banc of California, Inc. (NYSE: BANC) is a bank holding company with over $34 billion in assets and the parent company of Banc of California. Banc of California is one of the nation’s premier relationship-based business banks, providing banking and treasury management services to small, middle market, and venture backed businesses. As the largest independent bank headquartered in California, the bank offers a broad range of loan and deposit products and services through a network of full-service branches and regional offices, as well as through digital and nationwide capabilities.

The bank also provides full-service payment processing solutions to its clients and serves the Community Association Management industry nationwide through its technology forward platform, Smart Street™. Banc of California is committed to supporting its local communities through the Banc of California Charitable Foundation and by partnering with organizations that promote financial literacy, job training, small business support, affordable housing, and more.

At Banc of California, our success is powered by our people and a shared commitment to delivering meaningful results. We foster an environment where entrepreneurial thinking is encouraged, and accountability and operational excellence are expected. Our team members are empowered to take ownership, make informed decisions, and make a meaningful impact as the bank continues to grow and evolve. We are dedicated to supporting your growth and wellbeing through comprehensive benefits, robust development opportunities, and inclusive programs that enable you to perform at your best.

Together we win!

THE OPPORTUNITY

The AVP, Metadata and Traceability role is responsible for defining, implementing, and governing the enterprise-wide metadata management and data lineage architecture. This role ensures end-to-end visibility of data flows across systems, enhances regulatory compliance, strengthens data governance practices, and improves trust in enterprise data assets. The role is responsible for designing, implementing, and operationalizing the enterprise metadata and data lineage capability within the Data Platform organization.

The ideal candidate will establish metadata as a foundational architectural capability supporting enterprise data governance, regulatory compliance (SOX, ILDR, audit), and data quality transparency. Performs all duties in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures, all U.S. state and federal laws and regulations, wherein the Company operates.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Metadata Architecture

• Define and execute the enterprise metadata management standards.

• Establish standards, policies, and frameworks for business, technical, and operational metadata across Snowflake, dbt, Azure, Power
  
  BI and ingestion platforms

• Partner with team members to align metadata with business glossary, data quality, data ownership, and stewardship frameworks.

• Collaborate with Data Governance to develop and maintain enterprise data glossary and business term definitions.

• Develop metadata coverage, KPIs and platform adoption metrics.

Data Lineage Management

• Design and implement automated end-to-end data lineage across systems (source-to-target).

• Ensure traceability of data flows across ETL/ELT pipelines, APIs, databases, and reporting layers.

• Enable impact analysis, root cause analysis, and regulatory reporting through lineage insights. Enable impact analysis for platform changes.

• Partner with Data Engineering to embed lineage capture into CI/CD workflows.

Metadata Platform Ownership

• Lead implementation and optimization of metadata and lineage tools (e.g., MS Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Atlan, or equivalent.).

• Oversee integrations between metadata tools and data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, etc.).

• Oversee tool configuration, upgrades, and enhancements.

• Ensure scalability and performance of metadata infrastructure.

• Define roadmap for automation and AI-assisted lineage discovery.

Regulatory & Compliance Enablement

• Support compliance requirements (e.g., SOX, internal audit).

• Provide defensible lineage…