Data Management Principal - Finance Metadata Specialist

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Remote? No

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work‑life balance and diversity and inclusion.

From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people.

We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer‑obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog h.

Ally is committed to transforming our data governance and management capabilities to drive business value and uphold our "do it right" approach. We are seeking a results‑oriented Manager who brings hands‑on experience in data governance and management to support the execution and continuous improvement of Ally’s data governance and management policies, enablement services, and compliance measurement within a function or business line.

This pivotal role will manage the day‑to‑day business‑line data governance and management efforts, while collaborating closely with the Enterprise Data Governance & Management (EDGM) team, and business and technology leaders across the organization to ensure data quality, integrity, compliance, and accessibility. If you are a forwarding‑thinking manager with a passion for data governance and management, and you are ready to drive impactful change, we encourage you to apply.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

• Enablement Services:
• Create and maintain metadata for in scope sources
• Apply knowledge of current metadata schemas and industry standards to Ally’s metadata management practices
• Assist in the development of controlled vocabularies and taxonomies
• Define and maintain an appropriate domain model to organize Finance data
• Participate in design and implementation of data models to efficiently structure and organize data for analysis and reporting
• Drive execution of metadata deliverables (lineage, data dictionaries, business glossaries, critical data elements, etc.) for aligned and prioritized data governance implementation scope
• Coordinate with and support business line data owners, business data leads, and business risk partners with data governance‑related enablement activities to help your business line understand and successfully adopt enterprise data management requirements (e.g., data dictionaries, data lineage, data stewardship, data classification, data privacy, etc.)
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Business Unit and IT teams to resolve inconsistencies between systems of record
• Enforce adherence to enterprise metadata policies, standards and procedures while collaborating across the organization to drive continuous refinement and improvement to those policies, standards and procedures
• Manage data governance, data domain, and data product execution activities within Finance
• Drive successful deployment of enterprise metadata tools within Finance
• Provide guidance and training to business and technical users on metadata tools and standards
• Conduct business line training and awareness campaigns for data governance leveraging enterprise materials
• Support data quality team in embedding data quality checks, determining data quality rule thresholds, and tracking lineage
• Track the status of…