Credit Data Steward

About the role

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.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Support compliance with regulatory expectations and ensure critical credit risk data is traceable, governed, and defensible.
• 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.
• Collaborate with multiple departments across the organization.
• Translate business requirements into data governance and data quality solutions.
• Facilitate issue resolution across multiple business units.
• 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.
• 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. Tailors communication to engage the audience and ensure it is easy to understand and retain. Unites others toward a common goal. Asks for others' opinions and ideas, listens actively, and gains support when clarifying expectations, agreeing on solutions, and checking for satisfaction.
• 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. Takes action consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.

Requirements

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.

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 specific responsibilities, relevant skills, professional experience, educational qualifications, and geographic location.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401K retirement plan.
• Continuing education opportunities.
• Employee assistance program.
• Impact Network Groups led by team members passionate about driving engagement, creating awareness of diverse backgrounds, and building inclusion.