Data Product Implementation Lead — Drive Data Governance & Quality

Northern Trust Corp; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k plan

Pension plan

Health benefits

Discretionary bonus

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Data Product Implementation Lead in Chicago to develop tools and processes that standardize data across the organization. You will assess data strategies, define governance standards, and drive data architecture improvements to support informed decision making.

The role requires strong communication, negotiation, and leadership to balance data owners, consumers, and custodians, while guiding cross-functional teams through complex initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data governance roles.
• Experience with data quality standards and controls.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Ability to manage conflicting priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools and processes to maintain a common data standard across the organization.
• Assess and manage strategies to reduce data redundancy and increase consistency for decision making.
• Define and deliver data governance standards, processes and content for data dictionaries.
• Participate in reviews to ensure compliance with data governance policies.
• Resolve conflicting priorities among data owners, consumers and custodians.
• Drive efficiency and risk mitigation by balancing business value, cost, and data architecture.
• Collaborate across the organization to maintain data governance and quality structures.
• Coordinate data quality remediation to meet enterprise standards.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Conflict resolution

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Data Product Implementation Lead in Chicago to develop tools and processes that standardize data across the organization. You will assess data strategies, define governance standards, and drive data architecture improvements to support informed decision making.

The role requires strong communication, negotiation, and leadership to balance data owners, consumers, and custodians, while guiding cross-functional teams through complex initiatives.