IT76 - Director of Data Governance

OH0713 NW Bancshares HQ Job Description The Director of Data Governance establishes and leads Northwest Bank's enterprise data governance strategy, policies, and operating model. This role will ensure data quality, integrity, and security while supporting compliance with regulations while serving as a bridge between business leaders, legal teams, and IT.Essential Functions* Strategy & Frameworks: Develop the vision and roadmap for organizational information governance, master data management, and data architecture.* Policy Development: Design and implement data policies, standards, classification schemes, and data lifecycle management practices.* Data Quality Management: Establish metrics and incident-management processes to identify and resolve root causes of data errors.* Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data stewards, IT, and legal teams to enforce data privacy, compliance, and responsible AI/analytics practices* Research new technologies and evaluate their potential to add value in support of business, data team and operational needs* Provide technical leadership for development, engineering, and the database team* Enforce adherence to established architecture by providing review of planned changes* Partner with IT leadership team to enable their success* Leads ideation, implementation, and integration of technical strategies to assure achievement of business strategy* Determine modeling standards, guidelines, best practices and approved modeling techniques* Document modeling standards / guidelines; present to developers & analysts for buy in* Serves as a trusted technology consultant to IT and executive management for complex multi-platform technology solutions* Work with engineering and development teams on selection of hardware and software solutions to ensure alignment with company strategy* Directs the assessment of integration impacts of new technology* Ensures technology risks are identified and mitigated in accordance with business risk appetite* Lead design of meaningful metrics to be used in IT Steering Committees* Monitor system performance, identify and address bottlenecks* Lead ideation for infrastructure tuning improvements* Provide technical assistance and solution for escalated issuesAdditional Essential Functions* Ensure compliance with Northwest's policies and procedures, and Federal/State regulations* Navigate Microsoft Office Software, computer applications, and software specific to the department in order to maximize technology tools and gain efficiency* Work as part of a team* Work with on-site equipmentWhat You Bring to the Team* Leadership: Proven ability to drive stakeholder alignment, manage data trust councils, and translate technical data constraints into business implications.* Technical Fluency: Familiarity with modern data platforms (Databricks & Collibra preferred), data catalogs, and business intelligence/AI toolsQUALIFICATIONSTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Education Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Science or Engineering or related subject Work Experience8 - 12 years Data governance, data quality, and analytics operations Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities* Ability to establish effective working relationships among team members and participate in solving problems and making decisions* Ability to present and express ideas and information clearly and concisely in a manner appropriate to the audience, whether oral or written* Ability to actively listen to what others are saying to achieve understanding, sharing inform