Head of Data Governance Technology Tooling
Company: SMBC Group
Location: Charlotte
Posted on: December 31, 2025
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Job Description:
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered
in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse
range of financial services, including banking, leasing,
securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. The Group has more
than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40
countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the
holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest
banking groups in Japan. SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya,
and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges. In the Americas, SMBC
Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group
and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a
range of commercial and investment banking services to its
corporate, institutional, and municipal clients. It connects a
diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s
extensive global network. The Group’s operating companies in the
Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC), SMBC Nikko
Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC
MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco
Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and
Leasing Co., Ltd. The anticipated salary range for this role is
between $171,000.00 and $230,000.00. The specific salary offered to
an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications,
experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in
their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of
hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary
incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a
competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees. Role
Description SMBC is in the process of leading a Digital
Transformation across our Americas Division as we continue to
modernize our technology, focus on our data driven approach, grow
and plan for the future. As a result of this expansion, we are
seeking an experienced and seasoned Technology Manager for Data
Governance as a part of the Data Management group. In this position
you will be responsible for leading the team with the
implementation and ongoing support of the data management practice.
The successful candidate will be accountable for driving alignment
on Data Governance Frameworks, implementing governance on the
bank’s strategic Databricks platform, and acting as a global lead
and service owner for the banks Data Catalog and Data Quality
tooling. Here you will ensure team member activities are in
compliance with and aligned with the banks strategic directives.
This role is well versed in business objectives as determined by
project priorities and seeks continuous improvement opportunities
through automation and simplification of business processes. You
will also have responsibilities for administrative tasks such as
attendance, timesheets, resource planning and performance reviews.
As a Technology Manager you will work in partnership with the Chief
Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) within the Americas Division and
other business stakeholders to elicit and analyze data management
requirements. In collaboration with the CDAO, you will utilize
current products such as Collibra, CDQ, and SNOW as well as engage
in bringing on new tools as needed with technology enablement to
help us build a first-class enterprise data management practice.
Role Objectives Strategic Leadership and Partnership working with
CDAO and Business Areas to align on strategy and execution.
Databricks governance enablement across areas such as Catalog,
Lineage, and Data Quality, and DQ Issue Management. Deploy and
scale Data Quality Rules, leveraging preventative and detective
approaches. Ensure MDM is consistently adopted across data
consumers to have one source of truth Establish and continuously
improve “Run the Bank” and “Build the Bank” initiatives. Provides
regular status updates of team activities including progress of
development work to the applications manager, business analysts,
project managers and release managers. Understands and evangelizes
priority project efforts and strategic direction. Prioritizes and
assigns work from the interface backlog list to team members.
Performs resource management including capacity planning. Respond
to regulatory-related requests as needed. Manages projects and
coordinates the implementation of major production changes.
Provides man days estimates for interface development work to
project managers. Determines overall development standards,
identifies improvements to the development process and maintains
documented coding standards. Performs administrative tasks such as
timesheet approvals, SOAR/SAM approvals, performance reviews,
interface backlog list updates, PRoPS updates and change request
submission / updates. Leads production troubleshooting during
severity incidents and creates/updates incident reports for
severity incidents. Meets with business stakeholders and other
technical team members to gather and analyze application data
management requirements. Leads the design of and builds data
management solutions to satisfy application (business and
technical) requirements. Collaborates with Process Specialists,
Process Owners and Subject Matter Experts to create BPM solutions.
Assist with the implementation of data management solutions using
available data management tools. Understands and facilitates team
understanding of data management tools, methods and applications.
Qualifications and Skills 8 years of experience in Financial
Services 10-15 years of experience in data governance, data
management, or technology roles Proven experience as service owner
for governance platforms Understanding of global and regional
regulatory frameworks (BCBS 239, GDPR, etc.) Experience with
Collibra Data Intelligence Platform and Collibra Data Quality
Executive presence and stakeholder management skills Experience in
banking or the financial industry, preferably in regulatory
reporting or credit analysis area. Preferred: BA / BS (or
equivalent experience) Degree in Computer Science, Management
Information Systems or related disciplines. Preferred Skills
Experience in federated governance operating models Familiarity
with graph-based lineage solutions and AI enablement Experience
with cloud integrations across a governance ecosystem Prior
leadership in navigating larger financial institutions SMBC’s
employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides
employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from
an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a
reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective
candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work
schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be
permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain
FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the
entire workweek is required. SMBC provides reasonable
accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities
consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.
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