Investment Data Strategy & Governance Lead

Allspring Global Investments; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Allspring Global Investments seeks an Investment Data Governance and Strategy Lead to shape how investment data is sourced, governed, cleansed, validated, and delivered across the organization to support decision-making for investment, operations, risk, compliance, and client teams.

In a hybrid role (in-office 4 days/week), you will lead the Investment Data Council, drive cross-functional governance, set data quality standards, and oversee data sourcing, validation, and distribution across

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business, or related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in investment data, investment operations, data governance, or related investment services function.
• Understanding of investment data concepts: securities, issuers, benchmarks, pricing, valuation, reference data.
• Experience leading cross-functional governance forums, working groups, or senior stakeholder routines.
• Strong communication and influence across business, investment, operations, technology, risk, and compliance teams.
• Experience with data quality management, cleansing, controls, documentation, and governance practices.
• Proficiency with data management tools/software such as Bloomberg, Excel, SQL, VBA, Python, PowerApps.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Investment Data Council, with agenda development, decision framing, stakeholder alignment, and documentation of outcomes.
• Partner with business, investment, operations, technology, risk, compliance, and data governance to prioritize enterprise data issues and drive resolution.
• Oversee governance for critical data domains: securities, issuers, benchmarks, pricing, valuation, reference data and related attributes.
• Define and strengthen data quality standards, validation rules, controls, escalation pathways, and governance procedures.
• Provide strategic oversight of data sourcing, validation, processing, and distribution across internal platforms, external vendors, and downstream consumers.
• Identify and onboard new pricing, valuation, reference, and benchmark data sources with market data, vendor management, technology, and business users.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, reduce cost, and strengthen data operations using SQL, Python, PowerApps, Excel, and workflows.
• Translate complex data topics into clear business cases, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes for executives and cross-functional audiences.

Skills

Executive presence

Cross-functional leadership

Data governance

Analytical skills

Process improvement

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business

Tools

Bloomberg

Excel

SQL

VBA

Python

PowerApps

Job description

Allspring Global Investments seeks an Investment Data Governance and Strategy Lead to shape how investment data is sourced, governed, cleansed, validated, and delivered across the organization to support decision-making for investment, operations, risk, compliance, and client teams.

In a hybrid role (in-office 4 days/week), you will lead the Investment Data Council, drive cross-functional governance, set data quality standards, and oversee data sourcing, validation, and distribution across