Strategic Investment Data Governance Lead

Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC; Milwaukee (WI); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC in Milwaukee, WI seeks an Investment Data Governance and Strategy Lead to shape how investment data is sourced, governed, cleansed, validated, and delivered across the organization.

In a hybrid setting, you will lead the Investment Data Council, partner with stakeholders across risk, compliance, and technology, and establish data quality standards to drive measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in investment data, data governance, or related areas.
• Strong understanding of securities, issuers, benchmarks, pricing and valuation data.
• Experience leading cross-functional governance forums or councils.
• Ability to communicate and influence across many stakeholders.
• Experience with data quality management, cleansing, and governance practices.
• Proficiency with Bloomberg, Excel, SQL, VBA, Python, or PowerApps.
• Ability to work both independently and with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Investment Data Council, including agenda development, decision framing, stakeholder alignment, follow-up discipline, and clear documentation of outcomes.
• Partner with business, investment, operations, technology, risk, compliance, and data governance stakeholders to prioritize enterprise data issues and drive timely resolution.
• Oversee governance practices for critical investment data domains, including securities, issuers, benchmarks, pricing, valuation, reference data, and related investment attributes.
• Define and strengthen data quality standards, validation rules, controls, exception management practices, escalation pathways, and governance procedures.
• Provide strategic oversight of data sourcing, validation, processing, and distribution across internal platforms, external vendors, and downstream consumers.
• Identify, evaluate, and support onboarding of new pricing, valuation, reference, and benchmark data sources in partnership with market data, vendor management, technology, and business users.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, reduce cost, and strengthen data operations processes using tools such as SQL, Python, PowerApps, Excel, and workflow solutions.
• Translate complex investment data topics into clear business cases, roadmaps, actionable recommendations, and measurable outcomes for executive and cross-functional audiences.

Skills

Executive presence

Communication

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem-solving

Data governance awareness

Process improvement

Data management concepts

Education

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

Tools

Bloomberg

Excel

SQL

VBA

Python

PowerApps

Job description

Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC in Milwaukee, WI seeks an Investment Data Governance and Strategy Lead to shape how investment data is sourced, governed, cleansed, validated, and delivered across the organization.

In a hybrid setting, you will lead the Investment Data Council, partner with stakeholders across risk, compliance, and technology, and establish data quality standards to drive measurable outcomes.