Senior Manager, Data Governance

Requisition ID: 216081

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

As part of the Resilience Analytics team, leads the overall success of standing up, supporting, and maintaining Technology Data Governance at Scotiabank. A seasoned data manager, you have experience providing data solutions and repositories with best in class data governance technologies. The incumbent will focus on defining the technology domain, identifying global authoritative sources of technology data and classifying data assets, catalogue critical data elements along with their lineage, and manage data quality. The incumbent will be aware of regulatory requirements around data governance and aid meeting all regulatory and audit requirements. Technology data revolves around the data to manage technology operations to reduce risk and improve resilience and reliability. This role ensures all activities are conducted in compliance with enterprise data standards, policies and procedures

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Manages a small team to advance data governance within technology including all audit and regulatory requirements.   

• Helps to prioritize deliverables to continue to provide increased saturation of data governance across technology operations.  

• Works with the delivery teams and Data Office on properly cataloging Critical Data Elements (CDEs). This includes identifying data sources, mapping data/information flows, documenting data lineage, outlining data and payload models, clarifying transformation logic and influencing data model development.  

• Performs data profiling, analyzes, and communicates results in support of data quality processes. 

• Identifies critical data gaps and proposes solutions including the building of metadata models and business glossaries.   

• Manages complex data analyses in working with both structured and unstructured data, including collating disparate data sets from many sources. 

• Helps with the process of profiling data and ETL logic for documenting end to end data flow and lineage from capture at source, to storage, to delivery and its business intent at each stage (i.e. capture, transformation, fragmentation, editing) 

• Conducts dimensional modelling, metadata management, data wrangling, data cleaning and conforming, and warehouse querying. 

• Facilitates technology discussions, solutioning process, decision making, and provide technology mentorship with multiple groups including technology teams and across Scotiabank managers, business stakeholders, and vendors. 

• Understands how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions. 

• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of his/her respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct, and the Global Sales Principles, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations.  

• Champions a high performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.  

• Monitors project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports and recommending actions. 

• Works in an Agile mindset to accelerate the delivery of the project 

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed in this role? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience working as a senior contributor in a data focused team working with data governance, data management frameworks, cataloging CDEs, and tracing / managing data lineage. 

• 5+ years of experience building data warehouse solutions including architecture and design, solutioning ETL, and data visualization. Technology stack includes most of the following: SQL / SQL Server, Power BI, Python, other scripting languages. Hadoop, Hive and R are assets. Experience with Google Cloud preferred. 

• 5+ years operational Technology Experience and understand the concepts of Technology Risk, Resilience, and Reliability.  

• 3+ years experience presenting to executive audiences, technical audiences, and business focused audiences.  Skilled in summarizing and provides insights from complicated processes.  

• 3+ years of experience with ServiceNow or other ITSM solutions. 

• ITIL V3/V4 certified and 2+ years of ITIL experience in documenting or defining processes for Incident and Problem Management.   

• Strong business acumen, data analysis, metadata / reference data documentation, and data quality control skills specifically with respect to analyzing business process controls, sourcing and provisioning of lineage, identifying data quality issues and proposing remediation steps 

• Above average written and spoken English includes the ability to synthesize complex ideas from various sources.  

• Proven interpersonal and negotiation skills that allow you to build consensus and obtain co-operation from both support teams and senior management. 

• Self-motivated and able to solve problems and work collaboratively with other team members 

Nice to have:

• Spanish speaker and have experience working with cross functional teams in highly geographically diverse backgrounds. 

• Experience with predictive analysis and machine learning. 

• Experience with open-source data integration platforms like Airflow, NiFi, Prefect. 

• Experience storing, manipulating and integrating NoSQL data to BI reporting. 

• Experience with IT Governance concepts, COBIT. 

• Experience working in an Agile team environment

What's in it for you?

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Allyship - We strive to create an inclusive culture where every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are, and are embraced through bias-free practices and inclusive values across Scotiabank. We embrace diversity and provide opportunities for all employee to learn, grow & participate through our various Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) that span across diverse gender identities, ethnicity, race, age, ability & veterans.

• Accessibility and Workplace Accommodations - We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Scotiabank continues to locate, remove and prevent barriers so that we can build a diverse and inclusive environment while meeting accessibility requirements.  

• Upskilling through online courses, cross-functional development opportunities, and tuition assistance. 

• Competitive Rewards program including bonus, flexible vacation, personal, sick days and benefits will start on day one.

• Community Engagement - no matter where you choose to work from; we offer opportunities for community engagement & belonging with our various programs such as hackathons, contests, cooking with friends, Humans of Digital and much more!

Working location condition: Hybrid

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Location(s):  Canada : Ontario : Toronto 

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.  

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.