IT Data Manager - Financial Services

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead Financial Services efforts related to data governance, data modeling, metadata management, and data quality
• Define, maintain, and govern conceptual, logical, and physical data models for Mortgage, Title, and Title Insurance domains to ensure consistency across reporting and analytics
• Partner with Corporate IT data leaders to align Financial Services data definitions, data models, and governance standards with enterprise practices and shared platforms
• Develop and maintain analytical and dimensional models used for reporting and regulatory analysis, ensuring business logic is clear, documented, and consistently applied
• Build and maintain the Financial Services data dictionary and business glossary, including definitions for data elements, metrics, allowable values, ownership, stewardship, lineage, and usage guidance
• Collaborate with business data owners, Information Security, and Compliance to validate data definitions, classify sensitive data, and ensure regulatory and audit requirements are met
• Establish and enforce standards for naming conventions, conformed dimensions, metric definitions, and reference data to reduce ambiguity and duplication
• Supports reporting and analytics teams by providing guidance on proper data usage, definitions, and model interpretation
• Coordinate change management activities related to data definitions, models, and documentation as applications and reporting needs evolve
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and data privacy laws
• Supports reporting and analytics teams by providing guidance on proper data usage, definitions, and model interpretation
• Coordinate change management activities related to data definitions, models, and documentation as applications and reporting needs evolve
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and data privacy laws
• Supports reporting and analytics teams by providing guidance on proper data usage, definitions, and model interpretation
• Coordinate change management activities related to data definitions, models, and documentation as applications and reporting needs evolve
• Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, standards, and data privacy laws

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in a regulated financial services environment, preferably mortgage lending, title insurance, or underwriting
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, data warehousing concepts, and ETL/integration processes
• Experience supporting enterprise reporting platforms and semantic models
• Demonstrated experience with data governance, data quality management, and regulatory reporting
• Ability to independently identify problems and bring to resolution
• Customer service oriented with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be customer service oriented
• Sit for majority of 8-hour workday; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and peripheral vision
• The noise level is generally moderate

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud-based, on-prem, and/or hybrid data platforms
• Strong understanding of financial services data models and transactional workflows
• Familiarity with audit/control concepts and regulated data handling practices (e.g., confidentiality, segregation of duties)