Enterprise Data Governance Lead: Strategy & Quality

WSFS Bank; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 111,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) plan

Life, accident, and disability ins.

Wellness programs

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

WSFS Bank seeks an experienced Enterprise Data Management Lead to drive governance strategy, policies, and lifecycle controls across the organization. You will partner with Data Owners and Stewards to ensure data quality and regulatory alignment while embedding governance in enterprise solutions.

The role emphasizes strategic influence rather than hands-on ETL, with a focus on data maturity, metadata standards, and enterprise data architecture collaboration within a banking context.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related analytical discipline; Master’s Degree preferred or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience.
• Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise data management, data governance, or related domains in a regulated industry.
• Minimum of 10 years working across requirements, design, and governance enablement for data warehouse or cloud data platform solutions (in partnership with architecture/engineering teams).
• Demonstrated experience chairing or co-chairing a data governance committee or council, including facilitating cross-functional stakeholder engagement, driving data governance initiatives, and overseeing adherence to data quality, data management, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with information architecture concepts, data modeling concepts, and data integration strategies (without hands-on ETL/ELT ownership).
• Experience with modern data cloud platforms, Salesforce, and Financial Services core platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement/maturation of Enterprise Data Management and Governance capabilities.
• Maintain and evolve the data governance framework, including policies, standards, and operating procedures.
• Partner with business lines to understand processes, data flows, and Critical Data Elements (CDEs) to ensure alignment with enterprise data standards.
• Collaborate with Data Owners and Data Stewards to promote consistent data usage, quality, and lifecycle practices across the enterprise.
• Recommend enhancements to enterprise data processes, governance workflows, and supporting tools to meet strategic objectives.
• Identify data quality issues, establish data quality controls and KPIs, and drive improvement actions with business and operations teams.
• Conduct gap analysis of existing enterprise data practices to inform target-state governance and lifecycle management models.
• Support the definition of metadata standards, data classifications, business definitions, and reference data alignment.
• Help business articulate and translate business needs into clear data requirements, definitions, and governance artifacts.
• Partner with architecture, analytics, and platform teams to ensure governance and data quality requirements are embedded in enterprise solutions.
• Facilitate change management for data ownership, stewardship, data access, retention, and lifecycle controls.
• Promote adoption of data governance processes across the Bank through training, communication, and ongoing engagement.
• Chair/co-chair the data governance committee
• Participate in enterprise data governance committees and support the operationalization of data roles and responsibilities.
• Serve as a senior advisor and subject-matter expert for governance standards, lifecycle practices, metadata, and data quality.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Data lineage

Stakeholder engagement

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Master’s Degree preferred

Tools

SQL

Job description

WSFS Bank seeks an experienced Enterprise Data Management Lead to drive governance strategy, policies, and lifecycle controls across the organization. You will partner with Data Owners and Stewards to ensure data quality and regulatory alignment while embedding governance in enterprise solutions.

The role emphasizes strategic influence rather than hands-on ETL, with a focus on data maturity, metadata standards, and enterprise data architecture collaboration within a banking context.