Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics Strategy

Socket.dev; Fort Wayne (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Coverage

Vision Coverage

Dental Coverage

Health Savings Account

Flexible Dependent Care

Wellness Initiatives

Tuition Reimbursement

401k Match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

STAR Financial Bank, based in Indiana, seeks a Director of Enterprise Data to lead the data and analytics agenda across the bank. You will own governance, define metrics, and guide cross‑functional teams to deliver trusted data for executive decision‑making and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities include shaping the data strategy, overseeing dashboards, and driving data quality and platform investments, while partnering with Risk, Compliance, and Technology to ensure regulatory readiness and

Qualifications

• 8 or more years of progressive experience in data analytics, business intelligence, data governance, financial services data, data management, or related fields.
• 3 or more years leading teams, enterprise programs, or cross-functional data governance and analytics initiatives.
• Experience establishing data governance frameworks, data quality controls, reporting standards, and enterprise analytics practices.
• Experience partnering with executive leadership, business unit leaders, risk, compliance, internal audit, information security, and technology teams.
• Experience supporting regulatory, audit, privacy, information security, data classification, or reporting integrity requirements in a regulated environment.
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable analytics solutions, platform requirements, reporting standards, and actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop, own, and execute the enterprise data and analytics strategy aligned with the bank’s strategic plan, technology roadmap, and risk management expectations.
• Own the enterprise data governance roadmap, analytics prioritization process, and standards for certified reporting, dashboards, and self-service analytics.
• Establish enterprise standards for key metrics, data definitions, semantic models, dashboards, management reporting, and board-level reporting.
• Enable revenue growth, operational efficiency, risk management, customer insights, and executive decision-making through trusted data and analytics.
• Oversee development of analytical models, reporting capabilities, and performance dashboards to support operational, financial, strategic, and regulatory decisions.
• Define KPIs and performance dashboards used by executive leadership and board-level committees.
• Partner with executive leadership to translate information needs into scalable analytics solutions and data platform capabilities.
• Provide direction to business data owners and stewards across all major business lines.
• Recommend data platform investments, vendor selections, and resource allocation needed to support enterprise data and analytics priorities.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual reporting, improve data quality, increase reporting consistency, and mature the organization’s use of data.
• Establish and enforce a formal data governance framework including ownership, stewardship, access, retention, classification, lineage, quality, and control standards.
• Chair or co-chair the enterprise data governance council and lead a cross‑functional data governance team of 5 to 10 representatives.
• Ensure analytics, reporting, and data governance practices support regulatory, audit, model risk, privacy, information security, and data classification expectations.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Internal Audit, Information Security, and Technology on data controls, reporting integrity, access governance, and control documentation.
• Maintain examiner‑ready documentation for critical data sources, lineage, definitions, certified reports, dashboards, and controls.
• Define and monitor data quality metrics, lead remediation of data integrity issues, and elevate material data concerns to executive leadership as appropriate.
• Establish standards for data ownership, data stewardship, certified datasets, reporting governance, and responsible use of analytics across the organization.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 2 to 5 data analysts, data scientists, BI developers, and related data professionals.
• Establish goals, performance expectations, development plans, and accountability measures for staff.
• Recruit, onboard, and retain analytical and technical talent to meet current and future business needs.
• Provide matrix leadership to business data owners, stewards, and subject matter experts supporting enterprise data governance and analytics initiatives.
• Build team capabilities in data governance, business intelligence, data visualization, reporting automation, analytics, and financial services data practices.

Skills

Data analytics

Data governance

BI development

Team leadership

Regulatory reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

STAR Financial Bank, based in Indiana, seeks a Director of Enterprise Data to lead the data and analytics agenda across the bank. You will own governance, define metrics, and guide cross‑functional teams to deliver trusted data for executive decision‑making and regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities include shaping the data strategy, overseeing dashboards, and driving data quality and platform investments, while partnering with Risk, Compliance, and Technology to ensure regulatory readiness and