Senior Data Manager – Senior Vice President at Citigroup

Job description

The Senior Data Manager leads end-to-end execution of Legal’s data governance program for assigned domains, bringing business-critical data under governance, ensuring metadata is complete and current, and establishing transparent, authoritative sourcing and lineage. This role is accountable for domain outcomes that enable accurate, complete, and timely reporting, proactive risk management, and ongoing compliance with Citi’s Data Governance Policy (CDGP). As the primary liaison to Domain Owners, business SMEs, and Legal function community, the Senior Data Manager directs and manage complex, cross-functional work with Legal Stakeholders, Enterprise Data Office (EDO), Technology partners, Data Consumers, Data Strategy, and Data Risk & Controls– establishing the operating rhythm, identifying critical data, defining and establishing strategies in resolving gaps to data consumption & controls, enhancing and monitoring data health, assessing and mitigating data risk, and ensuring all data within the scope of the Senior Data Manager’s domains is both safe and fit-for-purpose. Responsibilities: Data Governance & Compliance: · Responsible for the governance cadence for assigned Legal domains; drives agendas, decisions, and escalations with Domain Owners and execution Working Groups. · Identifies, catalogs, and certifies Critical Data Elements (CDEs); ensures metadata is complete/current via periodic reviews and attestations. · Ensures adoption of new policy/standard changes; champions accountability and compliance across the domain. · Manages data quality and data risk through oversight of controls and scorecards; actively reports issues and proactively mitigates poor data quality risk impacting Legal and data consumer’s processes and reports. Data Quality & Exception Management: · Leads the lifecycle of data quality rules - co-defining requirements with consumers, setting thresholds, monitoring performance, and driving remediation to closure. · Maintains data exception backlogs, prioritizing fixes with Technology and SMEs, to ensure remediation is always in the form of robust, sustainable solutions. · Leads data controls assessment, gap analysis, enforcement and monitoring of data risk mitigation controls in partnership with control owners and GAU (Global Assessment Unit) owners. · Drive data control effectiveness and efficiency improvement initiatives for Legal. Lineage, Metadata & Sourcing: · Captures and maintains end-to-end lineage (movement and transformations) for priority data assets; identifying and tagging authoritative data sources and managing authority approvals through enterprise tools and workflows. · Establishes and maintains standardized domain semantics and taxonomies; ensuring traceability from CDEs to controls/DQ rules and eventually to solution endpoints. Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory: · Serves as the central partner-advisor for data consumption initiatives - providing expert counsel on policy, standards/controls, tooling, and the data operating model across Legal data domains, Data Strategy, Data Risk & Controls, EDO/Technology, and Reporting. · Embed data culture across Legal; creating playbooks, running clinics and sharing best practices that improve adoption, compliant practices, and literacy · Resolves ownership and definition conflicts among SMEs to one owner and meaning/measurement for critical data. Portfolio, Metrics & Evidence Management: · Provides program/project management for respective domains - clarifying deliverables, reporting milestones, identifying execution risks early, and executing functional strategies. · Develops and reports data health metrics and scorecards with Domain Owners and their teams; escalating roadblocks and/or articulating progress to senior leadership · Ensures all evidence for 2nd/3rd lines and regulators is established, organized, consistent, and audit-ready · Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's