Envestnet is seeking a Data Governance Manager to contribute to the development and execution of the next generation of enterprise-wide data governance initiatives, ensuring data is managed as a strategic asset, supporting privacy compliance, data quality, and ethical data use across the organization.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of industry leading data governance principles, practices, and technologies, including an understanding of significant related regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, etc.).
- Experience applying structured methodologies and frameworks to deliver data governance solutions across diverse business environments.
- Working understanding of the financial services industry, products, and services.
- Experience with data governance tools (e.g., data discovery, data lineage, metadata management).
- Willingness to pursue a related professional certification(s): CDMP, CIPM, CIPT, CDPSE, CISA, CRISC, CISM, and/or CISSP.
- Proficient in defining strategic direction and operationally executing against defined goals and expectations, identifying issues and contributing to problem-solving solutions.
- Ability to create high-quality deliverables with autonomy.
Responsibilities
- Lead & evolve the burgeoning enterprise-wide data governance team, strategy, framework, and supporting processes, including data ownership, stewardship, quality, and accountability frameworks.
- Define and enforce clear roles and responsibilities for data owners and stewards across business units, collaborating with extended teams and leadership to create program awareness and drive issue resolution / escalation.
- Facilitate cross-functional stewardship programs and councils to ensure accountability for authoritative data sources, data quality, accuracy, lineage, privacy, and compliance; maintain and enhance associated KPIs.
- Drive data quality and integrity initiatives, including the development and implementation of data quality standards, validation rules, and monitoring processes.
- Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to remediate data issues and improve trust in enterprise data assets.
- Contribute to the classification of data assets based on sensitivity, regulatory impact, and business value.
- Partner with Privacy, Security, and Legal teams to ensure appropriate controls are applied to sensitive and regulated data.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in related fields (e.g., Information Management, Data Science, etc.).
- 5+ years of related experience in Data Governance and related frameworks, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Risk, Compliance, or IT Audit.
- Ability to multitask effectively and deal with change and ambiguity in a diverse and constantly evolving environment.
- Proven ability to build alignment among diverse stakeholders by balancing priorities, managing trade-offs, and driving consensus toward shared objectives.
- Adherence to and application of Envestnet legal, compliance, risk, business continuity and administrative policy within the role and department(s) including the timely completion of training & awareness, affirmations and testing as requested.
