Director, Data Management & Governance

About Us

How This Role Impacts Live Oak and its People

Data is a strategic asset at Live Oak and how well we manage it shapes what the bank can do from how quickly analytics teams can deliver to how confidently the business acts on what data tells them to how well we serve our customers. The Director Data Management & Governance leads that work. Reporting to the Chief Data & Analytics Officer this role owns Live Oaks data management data quality data governance and data stewardship programs.

Over the past several years the team has built strong foundations and taken the bank from an early-stage capability to a functioning growing program. The next chapter is about continuing to mature these areas and getting them meaningfully integrated into how the bank runs day-to-day so data quality lives inside business processes semantic clarity lives inside how teams talk about their work and governance shows up as enablement more than oversight. Its also about readying our data quality semantic clarity metadata models for the AI and agentic systems that will increasingly consume it.

This role sits at the intersection of data business and enablement. Its a good fit for someone who wants to lead a real working program in a bank that treats data as a strategic advantage. Its a genuine player-coach role the Director works alongside a small team and stays close to the data close to the business and directly shapes outcomes rather than sitting a step removed from them. There is room to grow the team as the program continues to expand.

What Youll Do at Live Oak

Business Partnership & Strategic Engagement

• Build deep relationships with business leaders understanding their strategy their goals how they use data today and where their pain points and growth opportunities are

• Stay close to where the business is heading and shape a data management agenda that supports the banks strategic direction

• Work directly with the business to resolve complex data issues and identify where processes should evolve to improve data quality at the source

• Partner with the CDAO and the rest of D&A leadership to prioritize where the team invests

Data Management: Quality Metadata & Semantic Layer

• Lead Live Oaks data quality program expanding monitoring coverage driving down open exceptions and building trust in the data across teams

• Own metadata management in the data platform including the business glossary classification and lineage that make data findable and understandable

• Advance the semantic layer helping business and technical teams speak a common language about the data

• Prepare the banks data foundations for AI and agentic consumption ensuring quality semantic clarity and metadata are robust enough to support how these systems will increasingly work with our data

• Own Live Oaks relationship with Monte Carlo our data quality monitoring platform

Data Stewardship & Operational Integration

• Lead the Data Stewardship program supporting stewards across business domains running its operating rhythm and growing the community as the program expands

• Partner with stewards to embed data quality checks and rules into their daily work so DQ becomes an operational practice rather than a separate monitoring exercise

• Use the Stewardship community as a two-way channel bringing business context into data decisions and bringing data awareness into business teams

Governance Risk & Team Leadership

• Continue maturing Live Oaks data governance program evolving policies standards and processes as the bank grows and as regulatory expectations shift

• Serve as the data governance voice on the bank-wide vendor management program participating regularly in vendor reviews and third-party risk processes where data is involved

• Partner with Information Security Compliance Risk Internal Audit and when relevant external regulators

• Lead coach and develop the data management data quality and data governance team and shape how it grows as the program expands

Required Experience

• 8 years in data management data quality data governance or related including 3 years leading teams

• Strong track record of business partnership translating business strategy and operational needs into data outcomes

• Deep hands-on experience with data quality practices tooling and the operational work of driving quality

• Experience leading a data stewardship or similar cross-functional data community

• Data governance experience designing and running programs proportionate to the risk and regulatory environment

• Working knowledge of modern data platforms Databricks Unity Catalog dbt Fivetran cloud data warehouses

• Strong communicator across a range of audiences business SMEs Data Stewards technical partners regulators

• Comfortable in a player-coach model doing the work as much as directing it

Preferred Experience

• AI-related data governance experience

• Experience in banking or another regulated financial services environment

• Experience implementing or maturing a data retention program

• Familiarity with Monte Carlo Bigeye Anomalo or similar data quality monitoring tools

• Experience with data catalog tools (Unity Catalog Alation Atlan Collibra) and metadata management approaches

• Exposure to model risk management or SR 11-7

• Exposure to third-party risk management processes in financial services

• Background supporting Data Science or ML teams

Our Values

• Dedication:Possess a deep commitment to Live Oak Banks mission and core values exemplified through a strong work ethic adaptability and pride in your work.

• Ownership:Take initiative to deliver positive results by proactively and creatively solving problems while maintaining a high degree of quality.

• Respect:Treat everyone with courtesy politeness and kindness.

• Innovation:Embrace fresh ideas and fearlessly contribute new solutions to emerging or existing problems.

• Teamwork: Foster collaboration accountability and trust with others and understand that together we do more

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