MFS  Investment Management

Sr. Dir - Data Governance

MFS Investment Management$159K — $240K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • 15-20 years of industry experience, with at least 5 years in asset management data governance
  • Demonstrated expertise in developing and leading data governance programs
  • In-depth understanding of privacy laws and regulatory compliance
  • Extensive knowledge of data governance tools and AI considerations
  • Proven leadership skills to coach and develop a data governance team
  • Strong communication and strategic negotiation abilities

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage a data governance strategy and framework to meet business and regulatory needs
  • Establish policies for effective data management and compliance with relevant regulations
  • Set data quality standards and implement necessary controls
  • Lead a data governance team to adopt and integrate governance tools
  • Foster governance tooling that builds trust in data and supports AI capabilities
  • Collaborate with leadership to adapt data governance in response to evolving technologies
  • Build relationships to influence data governance decisions across the enterprise

Benefits

  • 15% contribution to retirement account separate from 401(k)
  • Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually and education assistance
  • 20 weeks maternity and 12 weeks parental leave
  • Choice of medical and dental plans with employer HSA contribution
  • Access to wellness programs and fitness benefits
  • Tax-deferred commuter benefits and flexible spending accounts
Full Job Description
THE ROLE

As part of the Enterprise Data Management Leadership Team, the Senior Director, Data Governance establishes and sustains the enterprise framework and tooling that ensures data is trusted, well-defined, secure, transparent and fit for purpose throughout the data lifecycle. This role partners across data teams, as well as business teams, operations, technology, risk and compliance to set and own standards, policies, metadata, quality expectations and governance processes that enable consistent, compliance and high-quality data. This includes owning and developing data governance tools and related integration into critical software, data and AI pathways at MFS, including for data cataloging, lineage, access rights, data protection and data quality.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

  • Develop, implement and manage an adaptive data governance strategy and framework to support business needs, regulatory and AI governance requirements.
  • Establish policies and procedures for effective data management, ensuring adherence to standard governance, data ethics and risk mitigation protocols, data privacy and other regulations, as well as alignment to AI and other governance frameworks at MFS.
  • Establish data quality standards, and ensure each data function and process has appropriate controls and compensating controls.
  • Lead a data governance team to define and implement data governance tooling, adoption requirements and integration patterns, and to maintain the required metadata to support effective data management.
  • Establish and evolve appropriate and progressive governance tooling that fosters human trust in and AI enablement of data.
  • Collaborate with the Enterprise Data Management Leadership Team to evolve strategy, data management and governance, and related tools as AI, cloud and business requirements shape needs over time.
  • Collaborate closely with technology teams to implement tooling and ensure invisible execution of data policy, and with data owners on ensuring robust workflows and accountability structures are in place.
  • Build and maintain strategic relationships across the enterprise and externally, leveraging deep data governance expertise to influence decision-making, support regulatory and client engagements, and represent MFS with regulators, vendors, industry peers, and other third-party partners.
  • Collaborate with market data team to govern third-party data and data licensing compliance.
  • Assume additional responsibilities as required.


WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent
  • 15-20 years of industry experience, with 5 or more years of asset management data governance or related experience.
  • Experience developing and leading effective data governance programs.
  • Significant knowledge of privacy laws, regulatory compliance, risk management.
  • Significant knowledge of data governance tools, related AI considerations and experience in implementing data governance tools.
  • Proven ability to lead, develop, and grow the talent of a data governance team, providing direction, coaching, and performance management to ensure the team success.
  • Extremely strong communication, negotiation and strategic influence skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent leadership and project management skills.
  • Strong understanding of data governance frameworks, tools, and best practices.
  • Expertise with investment data governance.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform job responsibilities collaboratively as well as independently, and effectively in a demanding environment.
  • Strict attention to detail and accuracy.


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Base Salary Range: $159,500.00 - $240,000.00This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.
At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we're including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we'll pay depending on the candidate's experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:
  • MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)
  • Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider
  • Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually
  • Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches
  • Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves
  • Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account
  • Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)
  • Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency - if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we'll be happy to discuss them

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MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.

About MFS Investment Management

MFS Investment Management is an American-based global investment manager, formerly known as Massachusetts Financial Services. Founded in 1924, MFS is one of the oldest asset management companies in the world and has been credited with pioneering the mutual fund. The first mutual fund, the Massachusetts Investors Trust fund, is still in operation today. MFS had $528.4 billion in assets under management as of January 31, 2020.
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