Role Description• Maintain and evolve the Firm's process taxonomy, ensuring clear hierarchical structuring of process levels, concepts, and governed terms.
• Own and govern the enterprise process taxonomy, including oversight of structure, standards, and change management.
• Support a cross functional working group to review and approve taxonomy updates, ensure alignment with risk, resilience, and control frameworks, and prevent duplication or unmanaged growth.
• Participate in New Business Approval meetings to determine if a new business unit or process needs creation.
• Embed the taxonomy into business as usual cycles and oversee periodic validation and attestation to maintain accuracy, consistency, and regulatory defensibility.
• Guide the appropriate use of the enterprise process taxonomy and support its adoption across business and technology initiatives, including risk management, 1LOD program execution, regulatory change, and reporting activities.
• Monitor the health and use of the enterprise process taxonomy, identifying gaps and inconsistencies, overseeing remediation activities, and supporting continuous improvement.
Qualifications and SkillsExperience Required:- Proven experience in enterprise-scale data governance, data management, or metadata disciplines within complex organizational environments.
- Strong command of data taxonomy concepts, including hierarchical structures, classification standards, and semantic modeling techniques.
- Experience using firm-approved data governance, metadata, or data cataloguing platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to convert business concepts into clearly defined, structured terminology that can be consistently applied across systems and processes.
- Effective stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to partner across business, technology, and control functions.
- Strong attention to detail, with an emphasis on consistency, clarity, and reuse of definitions and standards.
Preferred Skills:- Experience navigating and working within complex, multi-source enterprise data environments, specifically with processes.
- Hands-on experience with the SAI 360 asset model or similar governance and risk platforms.
- Experience with Fusion (Fusion Framework System) for BCM / Operational Resilience
- Ability to define and standardize taxonomy patterns and usage standards across analytics and data platforms.
SMBC's employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office. SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location. Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.
