Head of Data Governance — Hybrid & AI-Driven Leader

Tradeweb; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Hybrid Environment

FSA Program

Maven Family Benefit

401(k) Matching

Tuition Reimbursement

Commuter Benefits

Legal Services

Job summary

Tradeweb seeks a senior leader to build and oversee our Data Governance framework as Head of Data Governance. You will partner with senior stakeholders to establish ownership, quality, lineage, security and privacy of data across the firm.

You will define data ownership models, implement enterprise quality standards, and oversee AI data standards and regulatory reporting data. This role requires 12+ years in data governance within financial services or fintech and strong stakeholder influence.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in data governance, data management, or data risk within financial services or trading platforms.
• Strong background in capital markets, electronic trading, or fintech environments.
• Deep understanding of data governance frameworks, operating models, regulatory requirements and tools (e.g. Collibra).
• Demonstrated success building or transforming enterprise data governance programs.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and ability to influence senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Establish Data Governance frameworks, including roles, responsibilities, policies, standards and oversight forums.
• Define data ownership models across business domains; ensure key data roles are identified and individuals are trained on expected roles and responsibilities (e.g. Data Owners, Data Stewards).
• Establish enterprise data quality standards, metrics, and monitoring capabilities; ensure consistent adoption across the Firm.
• Define and enforce data standards for AI use cases, ensuring consistency, quality, lineage and appropriate controls across AI applications.
• Embed a Data Risk & Control framework in partnership with Operational/Data Risk functions to identify, assess and mitigate data-related risks, including formal review and approval of risk acceptances.
• Provide governance and oversight of data supporting regulatory reporting, ensuring data lineage, traceability, accuracy and completeness in line with regulatory expectations.
• Define and track governance KPIs/KRIs, with regular reporting and escalation to senior stakeholders.
• Evaluate, select and provide oversight of data governance tooling and platforms (e.g. catalog, lineage, quality), ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and scalability.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Business, Finance

Tools

Collibra

Job description

Tradeweb seeks a senior leader to build and oversee our Data Governance framework as Head of Data Governance. You will partner with senior stakeholders to establish ownership, quality, lineage, security and privacy of data across the firm.

You will define data ownership models, implement enterprise quality standards, and oversee AI data standards and regulatory reporting data. This role requires 12+ years in data governance within financial services or fintech and strong stakeholder influence.