Data Quality & Controls Leader (Hybrid, Regulated Finance)

Morningstar Credit Ratings, LLC; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

401k match up to 6%

Health benefits (medical/dental/vision

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Morningstar DBRS, a leading credit rating provider, seeks a Manager, Data Quality & Controls to lead enterprise data quality programs and governance. You will collaborate across Data Management, Credit Operations, Technology, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Product teams to embed robust data practices in operations and reporting.

You will drive a controls roadmap, implement data quality checks, and guide a team of analysts while supporting AI initiatives and compliant data handling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Data Science, Computer Science, or Management Studies (Master's a plus).
• 5+ years of proven experience building a data controls governance program in a regulated financial services environment.
• Ability to work independently with senior managers and align stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of controls, governance frameworks, data quality, metadata, and lineage.
• Experience authoring policies, standards, and procedures, data-quality controls and KPIs.
• Experience supporting regulatory data and reporting processes; familiarity with data-related regulatory expectations in financial services is a strong asset.
• Prior people-management or team-lead experience is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and ongoing enhancement of the enterprise data controls framework, including governance standards, workflows, metrics, issue management, and remediation processes.
• Develop and maintain data governance standards, procedures, and controls related to data quality, metadata, lineage, documentation, classification, retention, and issue management.
• Define control requirements for data products, integrations, APIs, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions, while establishing quality standards and validating migration outcomes.
• Lead and develop a team of data analysts by providing coaching, setting priorities, and overseeing deliverables.
• Establish data and metadata standards that support AI, analytics, and automation initiatives and promote responsible AI practices.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata

Data lineage

Regulatory data

Stakeholder management

SQL

Power BI/Tableau

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's (a plus)

Tools

Snowflake

Azure

AWS

DataHub

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

SQL Server

Power BI

Job description

Morningstar DBRS, a leading credit rating provider, seeks a Manager, Data Quality & Controls to lead enterprise data quality programs and governance. You will collaborate across Data Management, Credit Operations, Technology, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Product teams to embed robust data practices in operations and reporting.

You will drive a controls roadmap, implement data quality checks, and guide a team of analysts while supporting AI initiatives and compliant data handling.