Cyber Data Governance & Data Quality Lead
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Job Location:
Charlotte, VT - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
04-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group. Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services including banking leasing securities credit cards and consumer finance. The Group has more than 130 offices and 80000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan. SMFGs shares trade on the Tokyo Nagoya and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.
In the Americas SMBC Group has a presence in the US Canada Mexico Brazil Chile Colombia and Peru. Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate institutional and municipal clients. It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organizations extensive global network. The Groups operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc. SMBC Capital Markets Inc. SMBC MANUBANK JRI America Inc. SMBC Leasing and Finance Inc. Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A. and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co. Ltd.
Role Description
This critical role will be responsible for leading the Data Governance & Data Quality team for the AD Information Security department and will report to the Head of Cybersecurity Strategic Data & Business Management. This is part of the overall cyber data initiative focusing on building the security and risk data platforms for the Cybersecurity Data Lakehouse (CyberDW). The goal of the CyberDW is to centralize the ISDAD data as well as establish effective data governance around the data sources and its data lineage. This newly formed role will create a team that will collaborate with developers data owners governance leads and business analysts within the Information Technology (IT) department as well as other stakeholders aligned with the applications owned by ISDAD.
Role Objectives
- Operate as the Federated Data Officer for ISDAD. Analyze data sources data dictionaries business glossary data mappings ETL processes and data within CyberDW to understand their structure relationships dependencies to quantify and document the data quality rules controls and lineage around the key data elements (KDEs).
- Partner with the data owners and stakeholders to create KDEs and DQ rules needed for CyberDW data. Partner with the Data Owners and Data Stewards to understand what critical metrics and data fields are needed for Metric Dashboards.
- Creation of technical requirements for implementation and maintenance of DQ rules in the Collibra Data Quality (CDQ) platform and KDEs in the Collibra Data Intelligence platform. Partner with Technology and DQ Managers to ensure KDEs are governed by DQ Rules across various DQ dimensions of accuracy completeness uniqueness timeliness validity and consistency. Support reporting on data quality metrics and trends.
- Perform data validations and reconciliations to assess validity and effectiveness of the DQ rules conduct QA and UAT create and maintain detailed test plans execute test cases and test scripts to validate CDQ results.
- Establish QA governance frameworks with clear accountability traceability and reporting across all test cycles.
- Lead the QA Testing efforts that will design and execute test cases for CyberDW. Identify report and track defects as well as participate in creating and maintaining regression test plans cases and scripts using Xray in Jira.
- Design develop and test CyberDW ETL feeds focusing on data ingestion and data quality. Create scripts and test plans to ensure that the raw data is transformed processed and stored correctly. Work with the development teams and participate in daily scrum calls adhering to an agile SDLC framework.
- Drive the adoption of test management tools to ensure complete coverage and defect traceability. Leverage modern test harnesses CI/CD pipelines and AI-driven test frameworks for smarter faster and more reliable validation.
- Utilize production job scheduling systems for the DQ and QC processes and adhere to standards around the daily scheduling and batch monitoring of production jobs.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelors degree in computer science Information Security Data Management or related field
- 10 years experience in IT development data governance data analyst or related roles preferably in a highly regulated environment such as financial services
- Hands-on experience in data management & governance tools (e.g. Collibra DIP/DQIM/DQE). Strong prior experience with Data Profiling KDE and DQ Rule creation along with the ability to identify patterns and detect statistical anomalies in datasets is highly preferred.
- Hands-on experience in SQL queries and understanding of ETL processes. Proficient in Python PySpark Java or similar high-level server-side languages for scripting QA and alert processing.
- Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab Azure DevOps). Experience with Azure cloud services Azure Data Factory Gen 2 Azure Databricks is a plus.
- Experience with JIRA Xray REST API web services and microservice architecture. Knowledge of IBM Tivoli Workload Schedulera plus.
- Knowledge of enterprise Information Security data (i.e. Phishing Identity Management Privileged Access Cloud Security Incident Response Vulnerability Management Threat Detection)
- Exposure to PowerBI for data visualization and reporting is a plus.
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills with an initiative-taking and results-oriented approach.
Additional Requirements
SMBCs employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home as well as from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles including for example certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.
SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process please let us know at
Key Skills
- Apache Hive
- S3
- Hadoop
- Redshift
- Spark
- AWS
- Apache Pig
- NoSQL
- Big Data
- Data Warehouse
- Kafka
- Scala
