Director - Data Governance & Management

Director, Data Governance And Management

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and leadership behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

This role is part of the newly formed Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) Data Office. As the Director, Data Governance and Management you will lead a team responsible for the day-to-day compliance with the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy within Enterprise Technology Services. You and your team are responsible for identifying critical data, maintaining data definitions, classifying data, supporting data sourcing / usage requests, evaluating data risk controls, and confirming data incidents are remediated. You will partner across various business units, technology teams, and product / platform teams to define and implement the data governance strategy, monitor and manage data risks, resolve data / platform issues, and drive consistency, usability, and governance of specific product data across the organization.

Primary responsibilities include advancing the established data governance principles, managing all data risks for the business unit, establishing, maintaining, and testing the effectiveness of controls to manage data risk, facilitating data incident capture and coordination, coordinating with business units and other business unit data offices to ensure system level lineage is documented completely and accurately, collaborating with data owners and users to modify or implement new repeatable and reliable business processes to implement truly effective data management, partnering with third-party risk management to monitor and validate that third parties adhere to enterprise data risk management requirements, harmonizing key policies and guidelines with the processes necessary to carry out those policies, and developing and producing key metrics scorecards and program status communications for the full suite of teams within data office.

Qualifications include 8 years of direct work experience in large scale / enterprise data projects, with at least 4 years of direct experience relating to creation and execution of formal data governance and / or data management programs, a bachelor's degree in information security, data science, data management, risk management, business administration, or related field, a consistent record of understanding business challenges and strategies and connecting those to data and capabilities, strong working knowledge of current and upcoming data governance, data management and data product techniques and trends, senior level program management experience, demonstrable experience of driving meaningful improvements in business value through data management and strategy, ability to work with white space to design and complete solutions to solve sophisticated challenges, high-caliber communication skills, ability to put enterprise thinking first, connect the role's agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders, demonstrated learning agility, ability to make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity, eagerness to test, learn, fail and improve, and a positive, collaborative leadership style with colleague and customer first attitude.

Salary range : $144,250.00 to $256,250.00 annually bonus equity (if applicable) benefits. American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.