Sr. Associate, Data Management
About the role
Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company founded in 1889, is a global financial institution known for its innovative financial services and integrity. The Data Management Enablement (DME) team within the Enterprise Data group is currently seeking a Senior Associate, Data Management to join the team and contribute to the development and enhancement of Northern Trust's enterprise data governance platform (Collibra).
Responsibilities
Collaborate with business, technology, and data governance stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document business requirements.
Translate business needs into functional specifications, workflow logic, and configuration requirements for Collibra.
Avoid impacts to downstream processes such as metadata attestation, lineage, data quality, and regulatory reporting.
Act as a bridge between business users and technical teams, ensuring requirements are clearly understood and implemented.
Support the Product Owner in defining and maintaining the Collibra product roadmap.
Identify opportunities to enhance data governance workflows, automation, usability, and scalability.
Write detailed user stories and acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps (ADO).
Partner with engineering and platform teams to clarify requirements, review designs, and support delivery.
Plan, coordinate, and execute UAT activities for Collibra enhancements, upgrades, and new capabilities.
Facilitate UAT sessions with business users and data practitioners.
Validate fixes related to metadata workflows, data quality rules, scanning, classification, and role-based access.
Support release readiness, including defect triage, workaround documentation, and production validation.
Provide day-to-day operational support to Data Management Practitioners such as Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Domain Leads.
Support and troubleshoot: Metadata and role attestation workflows, business term and glossary management, data quality (DQ/DQM) issues, and role assignments, delegations, and permissions.
Partner with Data Quality, Architecture, and Platform teams during incidents, upgrades, and audits.
Serve as a trusted advisor to end users on how to effectively use Collibra.
Communicate roles, responsibilities, and governance expectations clearly to stakeholders.
Develop and deliver training, job aids, and guidance for new and existing users.
Actively identify friction points and usability gaps impacting adoption.
Collect, analyze, and synthesize user feedback from office hours, support interactions, and UAT sessions.
Translate feedback into actionable backlog items and roadmap enhancements.
Ensure enhancements improve usability, compliance, and operational efficiency.
Support reporting and dashboards (e.g., attestation status, compliance metrics) to ensure accurate governance insights.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Data Management, or a related field.
Proven hands-on experience with Collibra or similar enterprise data governance platforms.
Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data quality, and attestation concepts.
Experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and functional requirements.
Ability to bridge business and technology through clear communication and structured problem-solving.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and stakeholder management skills.
High-level experience with Collibra’s data model, workflows, and configuration capabilities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred / Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience as a Data Management Practitioner supporting Collibra in an enterprise environment.
Familiarity with data quality tooling (e.g., Collibra DQ, Ataccama, Informatica etc.) and operational support models.
Proficiency with Azure DevOps (ADO) for backlog management, user stories, and UAT tracking.
Understanding of user experience (UX) and user-centered design principles.
Ability to partner with IT and business to deliver intuitive, scalable governance solutions.
Exposure to audit, regulatory, or compliance-driven data governance environments.
Benefits
Northern Trust offers a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits (401k and pension), health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability), paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, life & accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits. The company also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
Working With Us
As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas. Movement within the organization is encouraged, senior leaders are accessible, and you can take pride in working for a company committed to assisting the communities we serve!