Join Northern Trust as a Data Governance Lead

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889. We are proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions by adhering to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With over 130 years of financial experience and more than 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Major Duties of the Data Governance Lead:

• Develop tools and processes to maintain a common data standard across the organization.
• Assess, manage, and maintain strategies to reduce data redundancy and increase the consistency/confidence of data for decision-making, improving firm-wide knowledge.
• Define and deliver data management standards, processes, controls, and content for creating and maintaining common data dictionaries.
• Participate in periodic reviews to ensure ongoing compliance with data governance policies, including compliance assessments, monitoring, and control testing.
• Resolve conflicting priorities among data owners, consumers, and custodians within the data domain.
• Drive efficiency and risk mitigation by balancing business value and cost, working with data owners and consumers to deliver an efficient operating model and data architecture.
• Collaborate with partners across the organization to maintain data governance and quality structures, ensuring business needs are met while balancing quality, risk, and cost.
• Coordinate and implement data quality remediation efforts to ensure data meets enterprise standards.
• Serve as an experienced, functional expert with technical and/or business knowledge and domain expertise.
• Carry out complex initiatives involving multiple disciplines and/or ambiguous issues.
• Display a balanced, cross-functional perspective, liaising with the business to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity.
• Develop, implement, and administer strategic programs within functional areas.
• Provide leadership and guidance to staff, fostering an environment that encourages employee participation, teamwork, and communication.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Strong understanding and ability to effectively communicate the role of Data Governance to both business and technical communities within the data domain.
• Broad knowledge of domain data and key business drivers of functions that enter, modify, manage, and consume data within the domain.
• Experience in defining and implementing data quality management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven facilitation and conflict resolution skills.
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities.

Working with Us:

As a Northern Trust partner, greater achievements await. You will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability embolden 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. Join a workplace with a greater purpose.

We’d love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world’s most admired and sustainable companies. Build your career with us and apply today.

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Reasonable Accommodation:

Northern Trust is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email our HR Service Center at .

We hope you’re excited about the role and the opportunity to work with us. We value an inclusive workplace and understand that flexibility means different things to different people. Apply today and talk to us about your flexible working requirements, and together we can achieve greater.