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Ref # 22247
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Ally and Your Career
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Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that's more than some cliché people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You're constantly evolving, so shouldn't your opportunities be, too?
The Opportunity
At Ally, you get a startup feel, but experience the benefits of a company that has worked out the kinks and is fulfilling its purpose. We are always evolving and see that as a good thing. From owning our work to seeing its impact in the real world, our team is relentless in finding new ways technology can help make experiences better and help people. We are problem solvers, we value diverse thinking, we support one another, and we challenge ourselves to think bigger in the journey to deliver customer-obsessed tech solutions. To read more about what our tech team does, be sure to visit our tech blog at ally.tech.
Ally is committed to transforming our data governance and management capabilities to drive business value and uphold our "do it right" approach. We are seeking a results-oriented Manager who brings hands on experience in data governance and management to support the execution and continuous improvement of Ally's data governance and management policies, enablement services, and compliance measurement within a function or business line. This pivotal role will manage the day-to-day business-line data governance and management efforts, while collaborating closely with the Enterprise Data Governance & Management (EDGM) team, and business and technology leaders across the organization to ensure data quality, integrity, compliance, and accessibility. If you are a forwarding-thinking manager with a passion for data governance and management, and you are ready to drive impactful change, we encourage you to apply.
At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
The Work Itself
Enablement Services:
Create and maintain metadata for in scope sources
- Apply knowledge of current metadata schemas and industry standards to Ally's metadata management practices
- Assist in the development of controlled vocabularies and taxonomies
- Define and maintain an appropriate domain model to organize Finance data
- Participate in design and implementation of data models to efficiently structure and organize data for analysis and reporting
- Drive execution of metadata deliverables (lineage, data dictionaries, business glossaries, critical data elements, etc.) for aligned and prioritized data governance implementation scope
- Coordinate with and support business line data owners, business data leads, and business risk partners with data governance-related enablement activities to help your business line understand and successfully adopt enterprise data management requirements (e.g., data dictionaries, data lineage, data stewardship, data classification, data privacy, etc.)
- Partner with Finance, Risk, Compliance, Business Unit and IT teams to resolve inconsistencies between systems of record
- Enforce adherence to enterprise metadata policies, standards and procedures while collaborating across the organization to drive continuous refinement and improvement to those policies, standards and procedures
- Manage data governance, data domain, and data product execution activities within Finance
- Drive successful deployment of enterprise metadata tools within Finance
- Provide guidance and training to business and technical users on metadata tools and standards
- Conduct business line training and awareness campaigns for data governance leveraging enterprise materials
- Support data quality team in embedding data quality checks, determining data quality rule thresholds, and tracking lineage
Track the status of key data governance activities and initiatives
Executive Communication:
Coordinate the preparation of reporting inputs, dashboards, and status summaries to be used by senior leadership in providing executive-level updates on progress with adhering to data governance and management requirements
Monitor and address results of enterprise dashboards, metrics, and summaries that reflect business line / function performance and alignment with expectations and key risk indicators
Culture Change:
Promote a culture of data accountability, stewardship, and data-driven decision making across Finance
- Provide support in planning and executing change management efforts to ensure successful adoption of the enterprise data governance agenda across the organization
Stay current with industry data management and data analytics trends, including embedding AI practices
Data Issue Management:
Support the business line in identification, prioritization, tracking, and remediation of data defect and data issue management processes
- Understand the regulatory requirements and frameworks that are applicable to your business line, especially as these requirements relate to identifying the critical data and data risks within your business line
Work with business data leads, business risk partners, and second-line stakeholders, to monitor business line / function compliance with regulatory requirements, proactively manage data risks, and coordinate remediation of open business line data defects and data issues
Execution Excellence:
Manage the day-to-day execution of data governance and management requirements within the business line / function
Own the documentation of asset-level and element-level data lineage, support business and technical metadata management activities for data dictionary and business glossary creation and maintenance
Enterprise Collaboration:
Work with diverse business, technology, and risk teams across the enterprise, including the enterprise data governance team, as each business line begins to take accountability for managing their data
Policy Accountability:
- Help interpret data governance and management policies, standards, procedures, and related documentation for your business line
The Skills You Bring
- Experience: 5+ years of proven experience in metadata management preferably within financial services, with at least 1-2 years in a team lead, senior analyst, or supervisory role
- Expertise: Hands-on experience with data governance frameworks, policies, and standards (e.g., DCAM), data management concepts (e.g., data modeling, data lineage, data catalogs) and data governance tooling (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Manta, Ab Initio)
- Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, data science, information science, or a related discipline
- Leadership: Demonstrated ability to guide junior staff, coordinate cross-functional work, and support large-scale data initiatives
- Technical Skillset: Foundational understanding of database structures and data analytics (e.g., SQL, Snowflake, ETL tools, Tableau, PowerBI)
- Communication: Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills; an ability to translate data governance requirements into actionable steps for business line / function partners
- Passion: Understands the tremendous impact good data governance and management can make for an organization and is enthusiastic about supporting the organization through the journey
- Approach: Strategic mindset paired with pragmatic execution capabilities
- Risk Management: Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate data-related risks within the organization
- Collaboration: Strong collaboration skills to work
