Data Governance Program Manager; Hybrid

Position: Data Governance Program Manager (Hybrid)

Data Governance Program Manager (Hybrid)

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About Byline Bank

Headquartered in Chicago, Byline Bank, a subsidiary of Byline Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: BY), is a full-service commercial bank serving small- and medium-sized businesses, financial sponsors and consumers. Byline Bank has approximately $9.7 billion in assets and operates 45 branch locations throughout the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas. Byline Bank offers a broad range of commercial and community banking products and services, including small-ticket equipment leasing solutions, and is one of the top U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) lenders according to the national SBA rankings by volume FY2024.

Byline Bank is a member of FDIC and an Equal Housing Lender.

Byline Bank is an award-winning workplace. Recent recognitions include U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work for in the Midwest, Chicago Sun-Times Best Workplaces, and Forbes America’s Best Small Employers. By joining our team, you will become part of an organization that values growth, collaboration, and innovation.

Objective Of Position

The Data Governance Program Manager leads the planning, development, and execution of a comprehensive, multi-year Data Governance Program. This role oversees the enterprise data governance framework, elevating data maturity, integrity, and value realization. The Program Manager ensures data is managed as a strategic asset, enabling regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making. The role coordinates cross-functional teams across IT, Risk & Compliance, Information Security, Finance, and business domains to deliver an integrated ecosystem of people, processes, and technology for trusted and governed data.

This is a hybrid remote and office role, with office work in Schaumburg, IL.

Duties And Responsibilities Program Management & Leadership

• Lead and manage the bank’s data governance program, including developing, maintaining and enforcing the framework, policies, standards & best practices, and procedures.
• Develop and maintain program charters, integrated roadmaps, and dependency maps.
• Manage budgets, timelines, milestones, and performance metrics.
• Report program progress, outcomes, and escalations to leadership and executive sponsors.
• Define and track KPIs for data governance effectiveness.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with business units, IT, compliance, and risk teams to align data governance initiatives with strategic goals.
• Implement the Data Governance Operating Model, including staffing enterprise DG teams (policy, enablement, operations, stewardship).
• Establish and support the Data Governance Council and Working Groups, ensuring effective coordination of deliverables, communications, and KPIs.
• Oversee deployment of data governance tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Informatica) for cataloging, glossary, lineage, and quality.
• Establish data quality monitoring and remediation workflows, focusing on data supporting critical KPIs and metrics.
• Partner with data owners and stewards to operationalize stewardship and accountability.
• Define and track KPIs measuring DG control adoption (e.g., EDM Council CDMC controls).

Data Stewardship & Analytics

• Establish and support data stewardship roles across departments to ensure accountability for data quality and integrity.
• Lead efforts to identify, escalate, and resolve data quality and governance issues.
• Develop and oversee robust processes for metadata management, data lineage tracking, data cataloging, and data cleansing, ensuring all activities are thoroughly documented and support data accuracy, consistency, and transparency across the organization.
• Partner with business owners to define metric ownership and lineage traceability to source systems.
• Identify and decommission duplicate or conflicting metrics and assets.
• Lead inventory and rationalization of enterprise metrics, reports, and dashboards.
• Maintain a governed Enterprise Metrics Glossary with version control and change processes.
• Coordinate with Business Intelligence teams to ensure analytics outputs align with certified, governed data sources.

Master Data Management (MDM)

• Manage delivery of the Customer MDM solution, from tool selection through implementation and go-live.
• Define and oversee data mastering, match/merge, golden record creation, and stewardship workflows.
• Ensure MDM outputs directly support enterprise KPIs and analytical use cases.
• Establish MDM operations, including governance integration, change control, and stewardship practices.

Risk Management, Policy And Compliance

• Ensure adherence to internal policies and external regulations (e.g., BCBS 239, GDPR, CCPA, FFIEC).
• Establish best practices and provide oversight for the implementation and monitoring of data…