Director, Data Strategy, Quality & Governance

liveoakbancshares; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Live Oak Bank in Wilmington, NC seeks a Director of Data Management & Governance to lead data quality, governance, and stewardship programs, reporting to the Chief Data & Analytics Officer. This hands-on leader will work with business leaders to embed data practices into daily processes, prepare data foundations for AI, and scale the program as the bank grows.

The role emphasizes collaboration across security, risk, compliance, and regulators, with an opportunity to shape how data fuels business

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data management, data quality, data governance, or related, including 3+ years leading team.

Responsibilities

• Lead Live Oak's data quality program - expanding monitoring coverage, driving down open exceptions, and building trust in the data across teams.
• Own metadata management in the data platform, including the business glossary, classification, and lineage that make data findable and understandable.
• Advance the semantic layer, helping business and technical teams speak a common language about the data.
• Prepare the bank's data foundations for AI and agentic consumption - ensuring quality, semantic clarity, and metadata are robust enough to support how these systems will increasingly work with our data.
• Own Live Oak's relationship with Monte Carlo, our data quality monitoring platform.
• Lead the Data Stewardship program - supporting stewards across business domains, running its operating rhythm, and growing the community as the program expands.
• Partner with stewards to embed data quality checks and rules into their daily work, so DQ becomes an operational practice rather than a separate monitoring exercise.
• Use the Stewardship community as a two-way channel - bringing business context into data decisions, and bringing data awareness into business teams.
• Continue maturing Live Oak's data governance program - evolving policies, standards, and processes as the bank grows and as regulatory expectations shift.
• Serve as the data governance voice on the bank-wide vendor management program, participating regularly in vendor reviews and third-party risk processes where data is involved.
• Partner with Information Security, Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, and - when relevant - external regulators.
• Lead, coach, and develop the data management, data quality, and data governance team, and shape how it grows as the program expands.

Job description

Live Oak Bank in Wilmington, NC seeks a Director of Data Management & Governance to lead data quality, governance, and stewardship programs, reporting to the Chief Data & Analytics Officer. This hands-on leader will work with business leaders to embed data practices into daily processes, prepare data foundations for AI, and scale the program as the bank grows.

The role emphasizes collaboration across security, risk, compliance, and regulators, with an opportunity to shape how data fuels business