Data Governance & Quality Lead

Northern Trust; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 95,600 - 162,400; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a data governance professional to lead standards, quality, and controls across the organization. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with business and technical teams to ensure data integrity and compliance with governance policies.

Responsibilities include driving data quality remediation, coordinating with data owners, and delivering programs that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and balance cost with business value.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data governance and data domain.
• Ability to communicate governance concepts to business and technical teams.
• Experience with data quality management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Facilitation and conflict resolution skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools and processes to maintain a common data standard across the organization.
• Define and deliver data governance standards, processes and controls for data dictionaries.
• Participate in reviews to ensure compliance with governance policies.
• Resolve conflicting priorities among data owners, consumers and custodians.
• Drive efficiency and risk mitigation by balancing business value and cost in data architecture.

Skills

Data Governance

Communication

Analytical

Problem-solving

Conflict Resolution

Facilitation

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a data governance professional to lead standards, quality, and controls across the organization. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration with business and technical teams to ensure data integrity and compliance with governance policies.

Responsibilities include driving data quality remediation, coordinating with data owners, and delivering programs that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and balance cost with business value.