Data Quality & Assurance Lead

• Data Quality & Assurance Lead
• Location: SAN ANTONIO, Texas, United States (Hybrid)
• Industry: Financial Services
• Work Setting: Hybrid

Are you passionate about data quality, governance, and enabling trusted data that drives critical business decisions? We are seeking a Data Quality & Assurance Lead to drive enterprise information management initiatives, strengthen data governance practices, and ensure data quality, lineage, security, and compliance across the organization's information ecosystem. This role partners with business and technology leaders to reduce data risk, improve data integrity, and advance enterprise data management capabilities that support strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.

• Key Responsibilities
• Data Quality & Governance Leadership
• Lead enterprise data quality initiatives to ensure critical business data is accurate, complete, consistent, and trustworthy.
• Develop and implement data quality frameworks, standards, controls, and monitoring processes across multiple business domains.
• Define data quality rules, thresholds, scorecards, KPIs, and remediation strategies for critical data assets.
• Lead investigations and resolution efforts for complex data quality issues and high-risk data concerns.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive corrective action plans to improve data integrity and reduce operational risk.
• Champion enterprise data governance standards, policies, and information management best practices.
• Metadata, Lineage & Information Management
• Maintain and enhance Information Asset Inventories and enterprise data repositories.
• Lead metadata management initiatives to improve data understanding, transparency, and usability.
• Collect, document, and validate end-to-end data lineage across systems, applications, and business processes.
• Support authoritative data source identification, certification, and governance processes.
• Ensure significant data changes are properly documented and re-certified when required.
• Promote enterprise-wide adoption of metadata, lineage, and data management practices.
• Risk, Compliance & Security
• Ensure information assets comply with governance, security, privacy, retention, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with business, risk, compliance, and technology teams to identify, assess, and mitigate data-related risks.
• Support data classification, sensitive data management, privacy initiatives, and regulatory compliance activities.
• Oversee compliance assessments and identify potential information management risks requiring remediation.
• Develop and monitor data controls to ensure ongoing adherence to enterprise governance standards.
• Support access management strategies aligned with data security and information governance requirements.
• Master & Reference Data Management
• Establish and enhance master data and reference data management processes.
• Ensure the quality, consistency, maintenance, and governance of critical master and reference data.
• Drive process standardization efforts that improve enterprise-wide data consistency and reliability.
• Support implementation of data stewardship practices and governance models.
• Program Leadership & Continuous Improvement
• Partner with business leaders and technical teams to integrate information management practices into business and technology processes.
• Lead cross-functional discussions to solve complex data management challenges and drive strategic improvements.
• Prioritize work based on business risk, regulatory requirements, and organizational objectives.
• Influence stakeholders across multiple business functions to adopt and improve data management practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve information management efficiency, effectiveness, and operational maturity.
• Provide mentorship, coaching, and guidance on data governance, quality, lineage, and stewardship best practices.
• Lead data-related projects and initiatives using Agile methodologies and structured project governance practices.

• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years of experience in Data Management, Information Governance, Data Quality, Data Analytics, Information Management, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience implementing enterprise information management strategies and governance frameworks.
• Extensive experience leading data quality initiatives, remediation programs, and risk mitigation efforts.
• Advanced SQL proficiency and experience working with large-scale data platforms and databases.
• Experience managing data lineage, metadata repositories, and information governance processes.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Experience working within Agile environments and leading enterprise-wide initiatives.

• Preferred Skills
• Data Quality Management
• Data Governance
• Metadata Management
• Data Lineage
• Information Management
• Data Stewardship
• Master Data Management (MDM)
• Reference Data Management
• Data Risk Management
• Data Security & Privacy
• SQL
• Data Compliance
• Data Controls & Monitoring
• Root Cause Analysis
• Information Governance
• Data Catalogs & Repositories
• Agile Methodologies
• Stakeholder Management
• Process Improvement
• Regulatory Compliance