Data & Model Governance Specialist

OCBC; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 67,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Community initiatives

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

OCBC Malaysia is seeking a data governance professional to develop and implement governance policies, ensuring regulatory alignment and strong data quality across critical datasets. You will collaborate with data stewards, owners, and IT to operationalize governance processes and deliver dashboards for management reviews.

The role requires a degree in CS/IT and 3+ years in data governance, with excellent communication and analytical skills to drive governance initiatives and training across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• At least 3 years of experience in data governance or data management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders across business and IT.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement data governance policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and prioritize data governance initiatives.
• Define and monitor data quality rules, metrics, and KPIs for critical datasets.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and documentation for reviews and audits.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of governance processes and decisions.
• Provide training and support on governance policies and awareness programs.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Model risk management

AI governance

Regulatory compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Technology

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

As Singapore’s longest established bank, we have been dedicated to enabling individuals and businesses to achieve their aspirations since 1932. How? By taking the time to truly understand people. From there, we provide support, services, solutions, and career paths that meet their individual needs and desires.

Today, we’re on a journey of transformation. Leveraging technology and creativity to become a future-ready learning organisation. But for all that change, our strategic ambition is consistently clear and bold, which is to be Asia’s leading financial services partner for a sustainable future.

We invite you to build the bank of the future. Innovate the way we deliver financial services. Work in friendly, supportive teams. Build lasting value in your community. Help people grow their assets, business, and investments. Take your learning as far as you can. Or simply enjoy a vibrant, future-ready career.

Your Opportunity Starts Here.

This is the broad job description of the job profile. Definitive job description should be reviewed and discussed between you and your manager.

What you do

• Develop and implement data governance policies, procedures, and standards.
• Ensure alignment with regulatory, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Work with Data Stewards and Data Owners to operationalize governance processes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders (example business users, IT, data owners, and stewards) to identify and prioritize data governance initiatives and embed data governance practices.
• Define and monitor data quality rules, metrics, and KPIs for critical datasets.
• Conduct data quality assessments and develop remediation plans.
• Coordinate periodic data profiling and attestation exercises with business units.
• Develop and maintain data governance metrics and prepare dashboards, reports, and documentation for management reviews, governance forums, and regulatory audits.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of data governance processes, issues, and decisions.
• Conduct training and support to stakeholders on data governance policies and procedures and awareness programs.
• Act as the primary communication point for governance-related updates and escalations.
• Support processes for data classification, cataloging, lineage, retention, and metadata management.
• Establish and implement model risk management framework/policy to ensure compliance with regulatory expectations and Group standards, covering model lifecycle management including development, validation, approval, monitoring, and periodic review.
• Conduct model risk materiality assessments, as well as FEAT (Fairness, Ethnic, Accountability, Transparency) assessment, and familiar with concept of model validation.
• Collaborate closely with model development teams and users to enforce the registration of model/AI use cases in the inventory as part of model/AI lifecycle management.
• Drive the operationalisation of the OCBC MY’s model and AI inventory, maintaining comprehensive documentation and audit trails.
• Partner with independent validators, auditors, and regulators to ensure smooth compliance and swift resolution of model findings
• Exposure to model governance, model risk management and/or AI governance practices within financial services is an added advantage.
• Familiarity with AI governance principles (e.g. explainability, fairness, accountability) would be beneficial.

Who you are

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• At least 3 years of experience in data governance, data management, or a related field
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with various stakeholders
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and best practices
  

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint; experience with Power BI or analytics tools is a plus.

What we offer:

Competitive base salary.

• A suite of holistic, flexible benefits to suit every lifestyle.
• Community initiatives.
• Industry-leading learning and professional development opportunities.

Your wellbeing, growth and aspirations are every bit as cared for as the needs of our customers.