Director of Data Management

awe; Bentonville (AR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) seeks a Director of Data Management in Bentonville, AR to lead governance, quality, and analytics across healthcare, arts, education, and philanthropy. You will shape data architecture, ensure security, and empower data-driven decision making across the organization.

You will blend hands-on technical work with strategic leadership, partnering with finance and AI teams to implement standards, data lineage, and interoperable solutions, while building a

Responsibilities

• Define and implement an enterprise-wide data management strategy aligned to business goals and best practices.
• Build out an emerging data management function with a clear operating model.
• Establish foundational capabilities in data governance, quality, and master data management.
• Drive adoption of data standards, rules, and taxonomies for completeness and timeliness.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve data quality, accessibility, and usability.
• Champion data as a strategic asset across departments and leadership.

Job description

Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) is a professional services organization supporting non-profits founded by Alice Walton, including the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, Art Bridges Foundation, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, and Heartland Whole Health Institute.

Job Description:

Job Title: Director of Data Management
Reports to: Chief Information Officer
FLSA Classification: Exempt
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas (On-site)
Date Reviewed: 10/17/2026

Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) supports operating non-profits founded by Alice Walton, including the Alice L. Walton Foundation, Alice L. Walton School of Medicine, Art Bridges, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Momentary, and Heartland Whole Health Institute.

About The Position

The Director of Data Management leads efforts to advance the collection, accessibility, quality, consistency, and governance of data across multiple systems supporting Art and Wellness Enterprises (AWE) and the diverse, complex portfolio of supported organizations spanning healthcare, arts, education, and philanthropy. This position works across functional teams, architects and maintains solutions, and drives the implementation of strategies to support business operations and analytics.

The role combines hands-on technical work with strategic leadership and works in tandem with finance and artificial intelligence (AI) partners. The Director shapes how data is captured, structured, and leveraged across the entire ecosystem to drive innovation, operational excellence, business intelligence, and analytics. Partnering with business and finance stakeholders, the Director ensures that data systems are maintained and secure and that the data strategy supports key business processes, technology development, system integrations, and analytics initiatives.

Success in this role requires strategic judgment, technical expertise, and the ability to advance and lead a data management function across a complex ecosystem. Success also requires the ability to translate business priorities into data strategies, build alignment across functional teams and senior leadership, and balance long-term direction with hands-on execution.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and implement an enterprise-wide data management strategy aligned to business goals and best practices.
• Build out an emerging data management function, ensuring its mission, structure, and operating model reflect best practices and world-class standards.
• Establish foundational capabilities across data governance, quality, and master data management.
• Drive the adoption of master data standards, business rules, and taxonomies to ensure completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve data quality, accessibility, and usability.
• Champion data as a strategic asset across departments and executive leadership.
• Partner with Compliance, Privacy, Legal, and business stakeholders to establish data governance, security, access, retention, and data-sharing standards across the ecosystem.

Platform and Architecture Oversight

• Maintain and continuously improve the enterprise data architecture, ensuring it aligns with business strategy, supports data-driven decision making, and remains in strong alignment with finance and organizational needs.
• Identify best-in-class tools that may optimize current processes.
• Establish and govern enterprise data architecture, integration, security, and data management standards to ensure consistency, interoperability, scalability, and protection of data assets across the ecosystem.
• Lead the integration of solutions with enterprise applications (e.g., enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems).
• Establish and maintain documentation standards for data architecture, integrations, definitions, and governance decisions.

Operational Execution

• Build and oversee metadata management, data lineage, and stewardship programs.
• Translate strategic data initiatives into actionable roadmaps with clear milestones, key performance indicators (KPIs), and ownership.
• Monitor and optimize performance and ensure service-level agreement (SLA) adherence.
• Provide training on enterprise data and tools to promote data literacy.
• Support adoption of data management standards, tools, and practices through training, communication, and stakeholder engagement.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure ecosystem initiatives meet business needs.
• Partner with finance and business units to align data initiatives with operational needs.
• Partner with AI and relevant stakeholders to ensure data quality, accessibility, integration, and governance support AI-enabled workflows and analytics initiatives.
• Communicate data strategy and impact to senior executive stakeholders.

Team Leadership

Establish clear expectations, priorities, and accou