Senior Data Governance & Standards Architect

U.S. Bank; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 139,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) and employer-funded retirement

Paid vacation (from two to five weeks)

11 paid holiday opportunities

Parental leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Governance & Standards Lead to advance enterprise data governance and enablement across data, product and platform domains.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on developing standards, reusable accelerators, and guidance to improve data sourcing, ingestion, and consumption while ensuring regulatory compliance. You will collaborate with data engineers, architects, and product partners, applying modern tech stacks like Snowflake, Databricks, Collibra and Power

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
• Seven or more years of experience in data governance strategy, planning, and policy

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and evolution of reusable data governance accelerators and ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are met across data, product, and platform.
• Implement and provide deep expertise in governance capabilities (e.g., Unity, Horizon, and Data Intelligence Platform) in platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Collibra and Power Platform.
• Serve as a data governance advisor to product delivery teams aligned with enterprise teams.
• Translate governance capabilities into clear pathways, playbooks, and compliance guidance for teams.
• Apply product thinking to data and governance capabilities, ensuring solutions are designed for quality, usability, adoption, and measurable impact.
• Define success metrics for governance accelerators and enablement efforts, tracking compliance and productivity gains.
• Work closely with data engineers, analytics engineers, architects, data product owners, and product partners to align solutions with enterprise data strategy.
• Act as a connector across teams, ensuring consistency while respecting domain-specific governance needs.
• Influence engineering and architecture standards through credibility, hands-on expertise, and demonstrated results.
• Continuously improve by evaluating, testing, and experimenting with emerging data and AI tools, platforms, and services.
• Document governance outcomes, change management plans, adoption guides, and data usage analysis to support governance metrics.

Skills

Data governance

SQL

Python

Power BI

Databricks

Snowflake

Collibra

Data modeling

Data quality

Data lineage

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Collibra

Power Platform

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a Senior Governance & Standards Lead to advance enterprise data governance and enablement across data, product and platform domains.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on developing standards, reusable accelerators, and guidance to improve data sourcing, ingestion, and consumption while ensuring regulatory compliance. You will collaborate with data engineers, architects, and product partners, applying modern tech stacks like Snowflake, Databricks, Collibra and Power