Senior Director, Policy Management & Data Governance

Scotiabank; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank in Dallas is seeking a Senior Director, Policy Management to lead engineering strategy for enterprise data governance and policy lifecycle, shaping controls and integrations across business lines.

You will build a high-performing team, collaborate with risk, compliance, and engineering partners, and drive policy adoption with measurable improvements in data trust and operational resilience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, IT, or related field.
• 7+ years leading engineering teams; 3+ years managing managers.
• Experience building enterprise governance, metadata, policy platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering strategy, roadmap and operating model for policy management.
• Drive metadata-driven policy capabilities across data domains and lifecycle.
• Productize policy management as reusable platform services.
• Ensure risk, compliance, privacy, and audit needs are met across teams.
• Foster a high-performance, inclusive team culture and succession planning.

Skills

Leadership

Executive communication

Data governance

Cloud platforms

Policy management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Advanced degree (asset)

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Metadata services

APIs

Rule engines

Job description

Scotiabank in Dallas is seeking a Senior Director, Policy Management to lead engineering strategy for enterprise data governance and policy lifecycle, shaping controls and integrations across business lines.

You will build a high-performing team, collaborate with risk, compliance, and engineering partners, and drive policy adoption with measurable improvements in data trust and operational resilience.