Tradeweb

Head of Data Governance

Tradeweb$175K — $240K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in related field or equivalent professional experience.
  • 12+ years in data governance within financial services or trading.
  • Strong capital markets and fintech background.
  • Deep knowledge of data governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.
  • Proven success in building or transforming data governance programs.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
  • Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in complex organizations.

Responsibilities

  • Establish Data Governance frameworks and oversight policies.
  • Define data ownership models and train key data roles.
  • Set enterprise data quality standards and monitoring capabilities.
  • Enforce data standards for AI applications ensuring quality and controls.
  • Implement a Data Risk & Control framework to manage data-related risks.
  • Oversee data governance for regulatory reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
  • Track and report governance KPIs/KRIs to senior stakeholders.
  • Evaluate and provide oversight for data governance tools and platforms.

Benefits

  • Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs.
  • Flexible hybrid working environment.
  • Pre-tax health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
  • Support for fertility, adoption, and pediatrics with a lifetime reimbursement.
  • 401(k) plan with immediate eligibility and a competitive match.
  • Commuter benefits and legal services.
  • Tuition reimbursement and financial wellness tools.
  • Paid time off and parental leave support.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a technology-driven organization, we value individuals who embrace innovation and are eager to leverage emerging technologies, including AI, to improve efficiency, enhance decision-making, and deliver better outcomes for clients and colleagues. We believe the greatest impact comes from combining technological capabilities with human expertise, judgment, and accountability

Group Details

Tradeweb is seeking a senior, strategic and execution-oriented Head of Data Governance to build, enhance and oversee our Data Governance framework. This individual will establish a Data Governance function and partner with senior stakeholders across functions to drive oversight of:
  • Data Ownership
  • Data Quality
  • Data Lineage
  • Data Security
  • Data Privacy

Job Responsibilities
  • Establish Data Governance frameworks, including roles, responsibilities, policies, standards and oversight forums.
  • Define data ownership models across business domains; ensure key data roles are identified and individuals are trained on expected roles and responsibilities (e.g. Data Owners, Data Stewards).
  • Establish enterprise data quality standards, metrics, and monitoring capabilities; ensure consistent adoption across the Firm.
  • Define and enforce data standards for AI use cases, ensuring consistency, quality, lineage and appropriate controls across AI applications.
  • Embed a Data Risk & Control framework in partnership with Operational/Data Risk functions to identify, assess and mitigate data-related risks, including formal review and approval of risk acceptances.
  • Provide governance and oversight of data supporting regulatory reporting, ensuring data lineage, traceability, accuracy and completeness in line with regulatory expectations.
  • Define and track governance KPIs/KRIs, with regular reporting and escalation to senior stakeholders.
  • Evaluate, select and provide oversight of data governance tooling and platforms (e.g. catalog, lineage, quality), ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture and scalability.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Management, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or data risk within financial services or trading platforms.
  • Strong background in capital markets, electronic trading, or fintech environments.
  • Deep understanding of data governance frameworks, operating models, regulatory requirements and tools (e.g. Collibra)
  • Demonstrated success building or transforming enterprise data governance programs.
  • Exceptional stakeholder management skills; ability to influence senior leaders and obtain buy-in.
  • Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives in complex organizations and drive pragmatic solutions.
  • Demonstrated leadership in executing and scaling governance frameworks, with strong communication and team management capabilities.

Additional Information

Tradeweb is committed to providing valuable and competitive benefits. In addition to working in our culture of innovation and collaboration, we offer:
  • Health Insurance: Highly competitive medical, dental, and vision programs
  • Hybrid Environment: Our employees have the flexibility of working in the office and from home.
  • Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts: You may elect to set aside pre-tax earnings to pay for eligible health care and dependent day care expenses for you and your eligible family members.
  • Maven Family Building Benefit: Maven offers support for fertility and preconception; pregnancy and post-partum; adoption; surrogacy and pediatrics for children up to age 10. Tradeweb provide a $10,000 lifetime reimbursement towards fertility, egg freezing, adoption and surrogacy expenses.
  • Building Wealth - 401(k) Savings Plan: Employees are immediately eligible for the 401(k) plan. Participants may contribute up to 75% of eligible compensation into a traditional 401(k) and/or Roth 401(k). Tradeweb will match 100% of the first 4% of compensation that you contribute.
  • The current pay range for this role if performed in the city of New York is currently $175,000 to $240,000 per year, based on a regular, full-time schedule. The amount of pay offered will be determined by a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications, market data, geographic location, and internal guidelines.

Other Benefit Programs
  • Pre-Tax Commuter Benefits Program
  • ARAG Legal Services
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Financial Wellness Tools
  • Travel Assistance Benefits
  • Pet Insurance
  • Corporate Gym Subsidies
  • Wellness Perks
  • Paid Time Off and Parental Leave

About Tradeweb

Tradeweb Markets Inc is a financial services company that provides electronic trading platforms for fixed income, derivatives, and ETFs. The company's platforms are used by institutional investors, dealers, and other financial market participants to trade a range of financial instruments. Tradeweb Markets Inc was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Learn more about Tradeweb
Size
1,046 employees
Market Cap
$14.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$166.3 million
Founded
1997
5 Year Trend
+16.9%
Revenue
$892.6 million
NASDAQ

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