Credit Data Steward

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With over $70 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving.

About the role

The Credit Data Steward serves as the business owner and governance lead for critical credit and lending data assets across the bank. This role is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and regulatory compliance of credit-related data used throughout the organization. The Credit Data Steward acts as the liaison between business stakeholders, technology teams, risk partners, and data governance functions to establish data standards, resolve data quality issues, support regulatory requirements, and enable trusted data for credit decisioning, portfolio management, and risk reporting.

We are an in-office culture with locations in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Madison WI, Milwaukee WI (Huron Building), Chicago IL (8750 West Bryn Mawr near Rosemont), Grand Rapids MI, Ann Arbor MI, Indianapolis, Evansville IN, Louisville (West Market), and Nashville (Gulch).

Responsibilities

• Credit Data Governance
  • Serve as the designated steward for critical credit and lending data domains.
  • Define and maintain business metadata, data definitions, business rules, and data quality standards.
  • Establish ownership and accountability for critical credit data elements.
  • Lead governance activities related to borrower, guarantor, collateral, facility, exposure, risk rating, covenant, and loan performance data.
  • Participate in enterprise data governance councils and risk management committees.
• Data Quality Management
  • Develop and maintain Key Data Quality Indicators (DQIs) and monitoring processes.
  • Identify, analyze, prioritize, and remediate data quality issues.
  • Perform root cause analysis of recurring data defects.
  • Partner with technology teams to implement sustainable data quality controls.
  • Monitor and report data quality performance metrics to senior leadership.
• Regulatory and Risk Compliance
  • Support compliance with regulatory expectations.
  • Ensure critical credit risk data is traceable, governed, and defensible.
• Data Lineage and Metadata Management
  • Document end-to-end data lineage from source systems through reporting and analytics environments.
  • Maintain business glossaries and data dictionaries.
  • Validate data transformations and business logic across systems.
  • Support implementation and maintenance of metadata management platforms.
• Business Partnership
  • Collaborate with multiple departments across the organization.
  • Translate business requirements into data governance and data quality solutions.
  • Facilitate issue resolution across multiple business units.
• Project and Change Management
  • Participate in lending system conversions and modernization initiatives.
  • Evaluate data impacts of new products, regulatory requirements, and business processes.
  • Define governance requirements for new data sources and applications.
  • Support enterprise data strategy initiatives.
• Reporting and Analytics Support
  • Ensure data supports accurate regulatory reports, credit risk reporting, portfolio management reporting, concentration monitoring, and commercial loan analytics.

Key Competencies

• Promotes Change – Seeks to understand and embrace change. Actively gathers information to understand the rationale, implications, and impact of changes. Remains agile by quickly modifying daily behavior, leveraging resources, and trying new approaches to effectively embrace change. Willing to act quickly, learn, and adjust as needed. Identifies and recommends changes to leadership to improve performance.
• Compelling Communication – Openly and effectively communicates with others. Shares information and ideas transparently, tailoring delivery to engage the audience and ensure understanding. Unites others toward common goals by seeking opinions and ideas, listening actively, and clarifying expectations.
• Makes Decisions & Solves Problems – Takes ownership of problems while collaborating with others on resolutions with appropriate urgency. Seeks to understand root causes, evaluates implications of new information, and recommends sound solutions based on available facts and constraints.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Information Systems, Data Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 7–12+ years of experience in data management and data governance frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience working with commercial credit or corporate banking data (highly preferred).
• Experience supporting regulatory reporting, credit risk analytics, or data governance programs.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-wide data quality initiatives.

Preferred Skills

• Strong understanding of commercial lending operations, credit underwriting processes, loan accounting systems, credit risk rating methodologies, CECL methodologies, regulatory reporting requirements, and commercial loan lifecycle management.
• Experience with tools such as Power BI, SQL, Databricks, and Microsoft Office applications.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with salary and incentive program.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401K retirement plan.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• Employee assistance program.
• Impact Network Groups led by team members to drive engagement, awareness of diverse backgrounds, and inclusion across the organization.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $60,000/yr – $121,300/yr plus bonus. The base salary reflects the compensation range applicable to all levels of the role across the United States. Actual salary offers within this range may vary based on factors including responsibilities, relevant skills, professional experience, educational qualifications, and geographic location.