EDO Data Governance and Architecture Lead

Senior Governance & Architecture Lead

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Governance & Architecture Lead to join the Governance & Architecture team within the Enterprise Data Office. This is a hands-on leadership role, critical to advancing the modernization of enterprise data governance and enablement capabilities by guiding, assessing, and executing data governance accelerators, applying architecture and data management standards and enablement frameworks for catalog, lineage, data quality, and access management aligned with the Enterprise Data Governance, Security, Privacy, Technology, Risk, & Enterprise Architecture teams.

The role focuses on accelerating domain, product, and platform governance improving speed and consistency in data delivery, reducing risk, and ensuring regulatory compliance to enable trust and transparency in data.

About the EDO Governance & Architecture Team

We are the data governance and architecture standards body for the Enterprise Data Office, focused on data and AI governance for domain, product, and platform to build trust and improve speed of data product delivery.

Vision | Make data products and AI solutions accurate, secure, safe, and compliant.

Mission | Deliver modern governance and architecture accelerators to speed up adoption and execution.

Values | In addition to U.S. Bank core values, we prioritize:

Head High:
We build with excellence. Our work is intentional, high-quality, and designed to last, so we are always proud of what we deliver and comfortable standing behind it.

Accountability Over Activity:
We take end-to-end accountability, from problem framing through delivery, adoption, and outcomes.

Strategic Intelligence:
We think in systems, anticipate downstream impact, and collaborate to win as a pod, not as individuals.

Relentless Craft:
We are passionate about the work we do. Our drive comes from curiosity, purpose, and a genuine love of building impactful solutions.

About the Role

The Senior Governance & Architecture Lead is a senior contributor and leadership role; responsibilities include accelerating data governance adoption through implementation and application of modern technology stack capabilities, data model standards development, data movement, storage, and consumption architecture skills libraries, and ensuring that domain and product team needs are met to comply with governance requirements. This role sits at the intersection of product enablement, technical strategy, and execution, acting as key governance resource for delivery teams across the Enterprise Data Office and broader bank.

Unlike a traditional data governance role, this position focuses less on day-to-day catalog, lineage, and data quality implementations and more on defining standards and creating reusable accelerators to improve sourcing, ingestion, and consumption patterns, and operating guidance that materially improve time to value, consistency, and quality of data products.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical credibility, strong product thinking, and the ability to influence across teams without formal authority. This role plays a critical part in reducing fragmentation, improving developer and analyst productivity, and ensuring that modern data governance capabilities are adopted safely and effectively at scale.

Key Activities

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the design and evolution of reusable data governance accelerators and ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are met across data, product, and platform.
• Expertise and implementation of governance capabilities (e.g., Unity, Horizon, and DIP) in platforms such as Snowflake,…