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Enterprise Data Steward

PenFed Credit Union
PenFed Credit Union Salary
Mc Lean, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/19/2026
Overview

Are you looking to take your career from good to great? As an employee of PenFed, every day is an opportunity to thrive, and be part of a team working to ensure our organization is providing world class service to our members, employees, and our communities. We exist to help our members realize their full potential, educate and encourage their dreams, and make every effort to follow our mission and help our members “do better.” Joining PenFed is more than being an employee; it’s about being a part of the PenFed family.

PenFed is hiring a (Hybrid) Enterprise Data Steward at our San Antonio, Texas; Dallas, Texas or Tysons, Virginia location. The primary purpose of this job is to drive adoption of PenFed’s Enterprise Data Governance procedures by working with Business Data Stewards. The position is part of the hub for the organization, with spokes into the various Business Units. This role will enable building Enterprise Business Glossary that is normalized and useful, help build common business data taxonomy, guide business data stewards in building the data quality monitoring projects, track and co-ordinate resolution of enterprise level data quality issues. The position will also help manage the critical data asset and elements repository in alignment with industry standard finance data model.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

  • Execute on established multi-tiered Data Governance operating model, engaging lines of business leadership, data owners, data stewards and key enterprise functions.
  • Recommend areas of improvements to existing operational processes to ensure data governance processes run efficiently.
  • Be the change agent to enable user adoption of Data Governance processes, procedures, controls.
  • Manage Enterprise Data Quality issues, in partnership with Business Data Stewards.
  • Champion defining data quality expectations, identification of data quality gaps, completion of root cause analysis and business impact assessment, prioritization and tracking of data quality remediation efforts, oversee remediation plans.
  • Identification and management of critical data elements inventory; including its alignment with industry standard finance data models.
  • Standardize documentation of business glossary, data dictionaries, relationships, mappings, and data flows and data lineage.
  • Advise business data stewards in their adherence to Data Retention & Archival, Sensitive Data Handling, Data Sharing, 3rd Party Data Management processed and procedures.
  • Define acceptable usage of data and drive consistency in interpretation and usage of data.
  • Lead benchmarking of the PenFed’s data governance program maturity against the industry standard models.

Qualifications

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

  • Bachelor’s degree in information systems or business management required, Master’s degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 12 years of experience in data governance and management
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in data stewardship, preferably in retaining banking institution.
  • Experience writing and maintaining data governance processes, standards, best practices
  • Experience working with internal stakeholders in running a successful data governance program
  • Extensive experience of working on any Data Governance and Management industry solution, preferably Ataccama
  • Technical background to work effectively with Data Platform and Data Engineering teams to enhance and mature the Data Governance toolkit
  • Strong knowledge of data management concepts including metadata, data quality, data lineage, data archival, data retention, data sharing, sensitive data handling.
  • Must have strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to work with all management levels, especially the ability to message in a concise and understandable way.
  • Must have experience in creating processes, procedures, job aids for enterprise rollout.
  • Experience with risk and control frameworks.
  • Experience of working with internal audit and external auditors.
  • Knowledge and experience of working in Reference/Master Data management efforts will be an added advantage.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position will not supervise staff.

Licenses and Certifications

  • Certification in any Data Governance tool is preferred.
  • CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) certification is preferred.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

  • Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*

Travel

Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may be required.

About Us

Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 2.9 million members and over $31 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in Guam and Puerto Rico. We are federally insured by NCUA and we are an Equal Housing Lender. We are available to members worldwide, via the web, seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day.

We provide our employees with a lucrative benefits package including robust medical, dental and vision plan options, plenty of paid time off, 401k with employer match, on-site fitness facilities at our larger locations, and more.

Equal Employment Opportunity

PenFed management will maintain and observe personnel policies which will not discriminate or permit harassment or retaliation against a person because of race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military or veteran status or obligation, the presence of a physical and/or mental disability or medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, and all statuses protected by applicable state or local law in all recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, overtime, position classifications, work assignments, facilities, promotions, transfers, employee treatment, and in all other terms and conditions of employment. PenFed will also prohibit retaliation against individuals for raising a complaint of discrimination or harassment or participating in an investigation of same.

PenFed will also reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can apply for a job or perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation or if the accommodation creates an undue hardship to PenFed. Contact human resources (HR) with any questions or requests for accommodation at 402-639-8568.

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