Senior Business Data Consultant

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship; candidates must be able to secure and maintain work authorization without company sponsorship.

Location: Hybrid – 4 days per week at any of the following offices: Wilmington, DE; Buffalo, NY; or Baltimore, MD.

About the role

The Wilmington Trust Institutional Services (IS) division is experiencing rapid business growth and has initiated a strategic program of continuous improvement to support its growth objectives. The goals of the program are to reduce operational issues and risks by standardizing processes, implementing best practices in key areas, and adding new governance and control functions. Long-term digital transformation is required to grow revenue through new and transformed digital-first trust and agency service products, shift from a product-centric to a client-centric operating model, move from market-specific to global solutions, and dramatically lower the cost to serve. These strategic focus areas are driving increased business investment.

In alignment with IS’s growing investment, we are seeking an IS Senior Data Management Lead to provide guidance to assigned business areas in implementing components of the Data Management Program. This includes governance, quality, issue management, reporting, data architecture, solutions, analytics, or project management, all in alignment with the overall Enterprise Data Management Program.

Responsibilities

• Manage execution of the Data Management Strategy and development of the Data Management Framework, Policies, and Standards for an assigned business.
• Implement the Data Management Program within the assigned business unit, providing training to business line and technology personnel.
• Act as the Data Steward for the IS business.
• Facilitate data management-related working groups.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the data management practice and working knowledge of industry trends.
• Measure compliance with the business and Enterprise Data Management policy and standards.
• Work with the business to identify critical data elements and capture related metadata.
• Monitor quality of data through measurement of enterprise-wide key performance/key risk indicators (KPIs/KRIs) to ensure effective data risk management.
• Facilitate remediation of data management-related issues.
• Promote usage of business and enterprise data management and business intelligence tools by relevant stakeholders.
• Analyze large data sets to derive business insights to drive tangible business value.
• Understand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Identify risk-related issues needing escalation to management.
• Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.
• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.
• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 7 years’ professional experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 11 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 7 years’ professional experience.
• 5 years of Financial Services experience.
• Strong interpersonal and persuasion skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical ability and creative problem-solving skills.
• Strong project management leadership and experience coordinating cross-functional teams at various levels.
• Skilled proficiency in the use of spreadsheets, graphing, and presentations with a working knowledge of financial models.
• Strong SQL programming knowledge.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree.
• Minimum of 10 years’ professional experience.
• Corporate Trust experience.
• Knowledge of data management practices and/or Bank products, systems, and workflows.
• Knowledge of process improvement methodology and business process management techniques.
• Proficient in pertinent project and presentation software.
• Advanced SQL programming knowledge.
• Experience with Alteryx AI and its use in data knowledge.
• Knowledge and experience with logical data modeling.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $123,600.00 - $206,000.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.