Data Governance, Vice President

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long‑term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

The ideal candidate will balance a deep business understanding of data with an appreciation for data quality and data governance. The employee hired for this role will drive business engagement for data within a domain, while driving the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data for users to make informed decisions and self‑service data.

This role is expected to act as the team lead or manager for a team of 3 – 7 individuals.

• Guide and drive the implementation and ongoing data governance activities for the assigned set of domains
• Build strong stakeholder relationships with the business and technology stakeholders who support the domain
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of data quality rules for the domain
• Guide and drive the collection and maintenance of the Business Data Catalog for the domain
• Drive timely resolution of data related issues for the domain
• Act as a subject matter expert for data‑related inquiries across business units.
• Train team members and at times review work performed by more junior team members
• Partner with data owners, analysts, and engineers to ensure proper data usage and stewardship
• Recommend process improvements to enhance data governance and quality

• Prior experience in the banking industry is highly preferred
• Business experience in one of the following areas:
• Lending / Deposit / Market accounts and transactions
• Financial risk (credit risk, market risk, liquidity risk, and interest rate risk)
• Non‑financial risk (Information risk, model risk, operational risk, and compliance risk)
• Finance and accounting
• Internal operations (HR, legal, procurement, audit) and reference data
• Minimum of 5 years of experience, with 7+ years of experience highly preferred
• Team lead or people management experience preferred
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Detail‑oriented with a strong sense of accountability
• Ability to work cross‑functionally in a fast‑paced environment
• Experience training, mentoring and delegating work to more junior team members

• Prior experience with Collibra Data Quality, or similar data quality tool

The typical base pay range for this role is between $132K - $161K depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance‑based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

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