Director Enterprise Data

First Citizens Bank; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank seeks a Director of Enterprise Data Architecture to advance governance, standards, and execution across the bank. This senior leader partners with executive teams to scale data capabilities, ensuring trusted data, regulatory alignment, and AI initiatives.

The role spans data architecture, information modeling, and data platform adoption, driving consistency across Nexus and broader data landscape.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 10 years' experience or HS Diploma with 14 years in Risk Management including EDW.
• Experience leading data architecture, governance, and enterprise data platforms.
• Knowledge of data warehousing, ETL, and analytics in banking.

Responsibilities

• Aligns data architecture with enterprise strategy and regulatory needs.
• Leads data governance, modeling, and platform adoption across the bank.
• Directs teams to ensure accurate, scalable, and compliant data capabilities.
• Partners with senior leaders to drive innovation and data management improvements.

Skills

Data warehousing

ETL processes

Cognos

SAS

Financial services

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Cognos

SAS

Job description

Overview

The Director, Enterprise Data Architecture is a senior leader within Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A) responsible for advancing the enterprise data architecture vision, standards, and execution strategy across the Bank.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Enterprise Data, this leader serves as a trusted strategic partner and delegate, driving architecture decisions that enable scalable, trusted, governed, and business-aligned data capabilities across all major banking segments.

This role provides leadership across enterprise data architecture, information architecture, data modeling, data products, and data platform adoption while ensuring architectural consistency across the Nexus ecosystem and broader enterprise data landscape.

The Director is accountable for scaling enterprise data capabilities to support growing business demand, regulatory expectations, risk and compliance requirements, and emerging analytics and AI initiatives across the Bank.

The ideal candidate combines strong data architecture expertise, organizational leadership, banking domain knowledge, and executive influence to help shape the future of Enterprise Data & Analytics.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Business Strategy - Partners with senior leaders to identify and determine areas of innovation, process improvement and data management strategies that develop and enhance the Bank’s capabilities. Serves as an expert data resource to other management, associates, and project teams. Maintains a strong knowledge of current and emerging technologies or trends impacting the financial service industry.
• Managerial Functions - Manages and guides direct reports ensuring accuracy of work, process improvements and efficiencies. Establishes and monitors expectations to achieve company and department goals. Manages the performance, training, and evaluation of assigned staff. Maximizes team achievements by providing professional development.
• Data Enhancement - Provides strategic direction and oversight to projects and process improvements that enhance the quality, management, and storage of enterprise data. Directs a team of lower-level management and associates that facilitate initiatives and data management and improve profiling, exception reporting, data analysis, and issue resolution. Delegates work tasks and makes adjustments as needed to ensure the appropriate data governance.
• Business Support - Creates, implements, and ensures execution of data policies and procedures to be used both within the department and enterprise-wide. Facilitates feedback from leaders to identify potential initiatives and areas of improvement within data management. Drives data validation and reporting to ensure the quality and completeness of data prior to business use. Directs the creation and maintenance of technical documentation for the Enterprise Data Warehouse. Makes modifications as necessary to Enterprise Data Warehouse processes to enhance efficiencies.
• Position Specific Skills:
  • Understanding of data warehousing and transformation as well as extract, transform, and load processes
  • Knowledge of Cognos and SAS
  • Knowledge of technologies and trends impacting the financial service and insurance industry
• Qualifications: Minimum Required Education and Experience: Bachelor's Degree and 10 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 14 years' experience in Risk Management including Enterprise Data Warehouse

Additional Information

Bachelor's Degree and 10 years of experience in Risk Management including Enterprise Data Warehouse OR High School Diploma or GED and 14 years of experience in Risk Management including Enterprise Data Warehouse

License or Certification Type: null nullSkill(s): Understanding of data warehousing and transformation as well as extract, transform, and load processes, Knowledge of Cognos and SAS, Knowledge of technologies and trends impacting the financial service and insurance industry

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.