Enterprise Data Steward - San Antonio, Texas

Job Overview

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Enterprise Data Steward at our Tysons, Virginia or San Antonio, Texas location.

About the Role

The primary purpose of this job is to drive adoption of PenFed's Enterprise Data Governance procedures by working with Business Data Stewards. The position is part of the hub for the organization, with spokes into the various Business Units.

Responsibilities

• Execute on established multi-tiered Data Governance operating model, engaging lines of business leadership, data owners, data stewards and key enterprise functions.
• Identify areas of improvements to existing operational processes, and design and build solutions to ensure data governance processes run efficiently.
• Be the change agent to enable user adoption of Data Governance processes, procedures, controls such as those related to metadata, data quality, and data ownership.
• Manage Enterprise Data Quality issues from identification to closure, in partnership with Business Data Stewards and Data Custodians. This includes completion of root cause analysis, business impact assessment, prioritization and tracking of remediation plans.
• Champion defining data quality expectations, identification of data quality gaps.
• Standardize the business glossary, data dictionaries, relationships, mappings, and data flows and data lineage.
• Identification and management of critical data elements inventory; including its alignment with industry standards.
• Advise business data stewards in their adherence to Data Retention & Archival, Sensitive Data Handling, Data Sharing, 3rd Party Data Management processes and procedures.
• Define acceptable usage of data and drive consistency in interpretation and usage of data.
• Lead benchmarking of the PenFed's data governance program maturity against the industry standard models.

Qualifications

• Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.
• Bachelor's degree in information systems or business management required, Master's degree preferred.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in data governance and management.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in data stewardship, preferably in retaining banking institution.
• Experience writing and maintaining data governance processes, standards, best practices.
• Experience working with internal stakeholders in running a successful data governance program.
• Extensive experience of working on any Data Governance and Management industry solution, preferably Ataccama.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate data quality issues and process challenges and provide options for resolution.
• Strong technical background to work effectively with Data Platform and Data Engineering teams to enhance and mature the Data Governance toolkit.
• Strong knowledge of data management concepts including metadata, data quality, data lineage, data archival, data retention, data sharing, sensitive data handling.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to work with all management levels, especially the ability to message in a concise and understandable way.
• Experience of working with internal audit and external auditors.
• Knowledge and experience of working in Reference/Master Data management efforts will be an added advantage.
• Experience with AI preferred.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will not supervise staff.

Pay

The anticipated starting salary range for this role is $84,700.00 - $193,133.00 This position is eligible for an organizational performance based annual bonus, subject to board discretion and approval. This position is eligible for an individual performance based annual bonus.

Benefits

At PenFed, we offer a robust benefits package designed to support you both personally and professionally. You'll have access to comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans; paid time off; and family-friendly benefits like paid parental leave, care support, and fitness center access. Financial wellness is encouraged through features like a 401(k) match, employee loan discounts, and fully paid life and disability coverage. We also support growth via education assistance, community involvement, and volunteer opportunities.

Contact

Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at Careers@PenFed.org .