Data Governance Specialist

Company

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

When you join the Federal Reserve—the nation's central bank—you’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We dedicate more than $1 billion to technology each year to support the Federal Reserve and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future.

Bring your passion and expertise, and we’ll provide the opportunities that will challenge you and propel your growth—along with a wide range of benefits and perks that support your health, wealth, and life. In addition to competitive compensation, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes tuition assistance, generous paid time off, top-notch health care benefits, child and family care leave, professional development opportunities, a 401(k) match, pension, and more. All brought together in a flexible work environment where you can truly find balance.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is one of the 12 regional Reserve Banks that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., make up the Federal Reserve System. It helps formulate and implement monetary policy, supervises banks and bank and savings and loan holding companies, and provides financial services to depository institutions and the federal government. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia serves eastern and central Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware.

Job Summary:

As Data Governance Specialist, you will analyze and translate data governance and data management requirements from the National Business Lines, and Reserve Banks into requirements and processes to ensure compliance, accountability, data quality, discover-ability and access. Creates, maintains, communicates, and implements data governance policies, processes, and procedures according to business needs. Documents and maintains data standards, partnering with data owners to map existing data structures, usage, and common definitions.

What You Will Do:

• Facilitate data access and sharing across the organization according to established data sharing frameworks. This includes working with data owners and partners to ensure that data is shared in a manner that is secure and complies with regulations and policies.
• Design and implement methodologies to track and measure compliance of data sharing agreements. 
• Report on data sharing requests on an ongoing basis with a final yearly report distributed to executive partners. 
• Facilitate and conduct the review of published papers using shared data to ensure compliance with terms of use agreements.
• Lead engagement with System data catalog teams for onboarding data to the catalog in collaboration with business and technology partners.
• Develop and conduct assessments to assess risks and compliance with enterprise data and analytics policies and standards; make recommendations for improvements and implement changes to ensure effectiveness and efficiency.
• Participate in establishment of governance for metadata management across the enterprise.
• Ensure integration of project logical data model into enterprise conceptual data model.
• Work with project teams to understand the business environment to manage enterprise-wide information/data support systems.
• Lead in-depth research and data analysis to identify data quality issues, data relations, and data dependencies to support business operations and presents findings to users and partners.
• Maintain and update information maps, retention schedules, and data catalog.
• Interpret and enforce activities to ensure target goals for data fidelity improvement and adherence with data governance policies. 
• Help implement common data management practices across the organization.
• Administer defining and implementing policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities for managing data across an organization.
• Help to ensure data quality, security, compliance, and alignment with business and technical goals.
• Understanding of security, privacy, and quality requirements for critical data entities.

What You Have:

Knowledge:

• Proficiently express information through writing and speaking
• Presentation, diagramming, spreadsheet software and other office tools.
• Interpersonal interaction, collaboration, problem-solving and analytics.
• Work on multiple projects/issues/enhancements as a team leader.
• Work on complex enterprise-wide projects/issues/enhancements.
• Design logical enterprise-wide data models.
• Familiarity with data and analytics governance tools, e.g., Collibra.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Systems, or related field; advanced degree preferred. In lieu of a degree, a combination education and substantial relevant work experience may be considered.
• Minimum 6 years relevant industry experience.

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We offer a great benefits package that features:

• Medical (4 options), Prescription, Dental (3 options), and Vision Insurance with no waiting period
• 401k/Thrift Plan with generous employer match
• Employer-funded Pension Plan
• Paid Vacation/Sick Time & Holidays
• Monthly $100 Commuter Allowance
• Flexible Spending Accounts and Healthcare Spending Accounts
• Flexible Work Schedule available in most departments
• Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement (undergraduate and graduate)
• Parental Leave
• Free onsite 24/7 Fitness Center including training classes, Peloton bikes and locker room / shower facilities
• Onsite Cafeteria & Coffee Shop
• Additional Convenience Benefits, Discounts and More…

Additional Information:

• The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia takes your information privacy seriously. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia staff will only email you from the “@phil.frb.org” domain or through the Workday system “rb@myworkday.com”.  If you are initially contacted by phone, feel free to request that the caller provide you with their email address to validate their identity.  If you have any questions about the validity of someone who contacts you regarding this position, please email the Talent Acquisition team at TalentAcquisition@phil.frb.org.
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia believes that diversity, equity and inclusion among our employees is essential to our success as an organization, and we want to recruit, develop and retain the most accomplished people from a diverse candidate pool. To support a workplace culture of belonging, we offer eight employee resource groups (ERGs) and a 100 percent rating on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Corporate Equality Index. The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
• We have eight employee resource groups (ERGs) to support a diverse workforce. Abilities (supporting disabilities and allies), African Heritage, Asian-Pacific, Freedom (supporting LQBTQ+ and allies), Talent Forward (supporting career growth), Women United, Working Families and Veterans. ERGs are open to all employees.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at TalentAcquisition@phil.frb.org.
• All Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia employees must comply with the Bank's ethics rules, which generally prohibit employees, their spouses/domestic partners, and minor children from owning securities, such as stock, of banks or savings associations or their affiliates, such as bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies. If you or your spouse/domestic partner or minor child own such securities and would not be willing or able to divest them if you accepted an offer of Bank employment, you should raise this issue with the Recruiter for this posting, who can provide you contact information for our ethics officer if necessary. You should review the Bank's Employee Code of Conduct to ensure compliance with conflict of interest rules and personal investment restrictions.
• Background investigations and drug testing are required for all new hires as a condition of employment, after the job offer is made. Candidates for positions deemed as "safety sensitive" will also be screened for the presence of marijuana. Employment may not begin until the Bank accepts the results of the background investigation.
• Due to the nature of the information, you will have access to, we require that you also complete a more in-depth enhanced background screening (Peraton moderate). 
• All employees will be subject to FBI fingerprint / criminal background and Patriot Act/ Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) watch list checks at least once every five years.
• This position requires access to confidential supervisory information and/or FOMC information, which is limited to "Protected Individuals" as defined in the U.S. federal immigration law. Protected Individuals include, but are not limited to, U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, and U.S. permanent residents who either are not yet eligible to apply for naturalization or who have applied for naturalization within the requisite timeframe. Candidates who are permanent residents must sign a declaration of intent to become a U.S. citizen when eligible to do so and pursue a path to citizenship. Candidates who are not U.S. citizens or U.S. permanent residents may be eligible for the information access required for this position if they sign a declaration of intent to become a permanent resident and a U.S. citizen and meet other eligibility requirements. In addition, all candidates must undergo an applicable background check and comply with all applicable information handling rules.
• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature, level of work and the requirements of this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities associated with this position or the personnel so classified. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of this position, management reserves the right to revise this or any job description at its discretion at any time.
• This is NOT a 100% remote opportunity. You will be available to work on-site in at least a hybrid capacity.
• Learn more about the Philly Fed and its culture. Learn more about working for the Philly Fed.
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Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Regular / Temporary

Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Job Category

Work Shift

First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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