Data Governance Lead

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🔥 18 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

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Planet Home Lending, LLC

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

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👥 B2C

💰 $475M Debt financing on 2025-01

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Planet Home Lending, LLC is a consumer-focused mortgage lender that provides home-purchase and refinance loans, cash-out and renovation financing, VA, FHA, USDA, jumbo, construction, manufactured housing, and home equity products. The company emphasizes online account access and customer service, serving approximately 500,000 customers, and markets itself as an equal housing lender headquartered in Meriden, CT (NMLS ID#17022). Planet also engages in community and environmental initiatives and offers career opportunities for mortgage professionals.

📋 Description

• Design and operate Planet’s enterprise data governance program and operating model • Establish governance frameworks, policies, standards, decision rights, escalation paths, and governance roadmaps • Charter and run the data governance council and working forums • Maintain governance maturity assessment against a recognized framework • Own enterprise data quality management, including critical data element inventories, quality standards, thresholds, profiling, rules, monitoring, scorecards, root-cause analysis, and remediation • Establish and maintain metadata, lineage, and the business glossary • Implement and administer the data catalog • Define standard business terms and certified metric definitions • Capture end-to-end lineage from source fields through curated layers to reporting • Lead data privacy, classification, and regulatory data controls for NPI and PII • Partner with Information Security on access, masking, and entitlement design • Own data retention and lifecycle requirements • Serve as the data governance point of contact for internal audit, SOC, investor, agency, and regulatory examinations • Produce evidence and track remediation • Recruit, train, and support business data stewards and data owners • Define stewardship roles, responsibilities, and expectations • Run onboarding and ongoing enablement • Drive adoption through change management, communication, and measurable participation • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field required • Minimum eight (8) years of experience in data management, data governance, data quality, or a closely related discipline • Minimum three (3) years leading a data governance or data quality program, including direct accountability for program outcomes • Minimum three (3) years of mortgage lending or financial services experience required, with working knowledge of the loan lifecycle and supporting data • Experience standing up a governance program from an immature or fragmented starting point • Experience defining critical data elements and implementing measurable data quality controls in production • Experience implementing and administering a data catalog or metadata management platform • Experience supporting regulatory examinations, internal audit, or investor and agency reviews, including evidence production and remediation tracking • Working knowledge of a recognized data management framework such as DAMA-DMBOK • Strong working knowledge of mortgage origination and servicing data, including loan, borrower, property, investor, escrow, and remittance data • Knowledge of mortgage lending regulatory and investor reporting requirements, including HMDA, fair lending data, and agency and investor delivery requirements • Knowledge of GLBA, CCPA/CPRA, and FCRA, including compliance controls and evidence • Practical SQL skills for data profiling and quality validation • Experience with data catalog, data quality, or metadata tooling; familiarity with cloud data platform governance capabilities such as Snowflake • Understanding of data classification, masking, tokenization, and role-based access design • Ability to write clear policies, standards, and procedures • Strong facilitation skills • Ability to influence business leaders and secure accountability without direct authority • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Advanced degree or data governance certification such as CDMP or DGSP preferred • Experience building and enabling a federated stewardship model preferred • Experience working alongside a cloud data platform migration preferred

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