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The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Title: Business Data Governance Lead

Position Summary

We are on an exciting journey to improve the quality and accessibility of our data to empower business users to make nimble meaningful business decisions utilizing data. To accomplish this, we are looking to hire a senior individual to shape the bank's data policy and data governance operating model. This role is ideal for a seasoned professional who has experienced challenges in how data is entered in systems, aggregated/transformed, and consumed for reporting/analytics. The ideal candidate may be an end user of data or a frustrated Data Steward who is passionate about improving the quality of data in the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to ensure decisions align with strong data governance and the data policy
• Guide business stakeholders on interpretation of the data policy
• Recommend changes to improve the data policy to enable nimble business decisions while managing data risk
• Identify where process gaps, manual workarounds, or inconsistent practices lead to data quality issues
• Educate business users on the requirements outline in the data policy, including why strong data governance enables nimble business decisions and AI
• Participate in data steward / data governance forums to understand current data challenges across business units
• Improve transparency and confidence in how data is sourced and defined across the organization
• Review audit issues and management self-identified issues to determine which issues impact the consumption of or quality of data

Qualifications

• 7+ years of banking experience related to data
• Strong, handson knowledge of how data is entered in systems, aggregated/transformed, and consumed for reporting/analytics
• Strong collaboration, influence, and problemsolving skills. Comfort working across teams and driving change without direct authority
• Curiosity and passion for improving how business data is created and used
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of accountability

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with data policies (e.g., data quality, metadata, lineage, data incidents)
• Familiarity with data governance platforms such as Collibra

What this role is not

• Not a data engineering, analytics, or technical role
• Not a pure compliance second line role
• No prior data experience or data background is required
• No coding, modeling, or system development responsibilities
• No requirement for formal data management experience

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or an equivalent combination of formal education and experience
• "Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position."

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $147 - 193K
• Non-New York / New Jersey: $137-170K

depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual's associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.