Member of Global Analytics (Data Governance Lead)
Anchorage Digital
Data Science
United States
Posted on Wednesday, May 8, 2024
At Anchorage Digital, we are building the world’s most advanced digital asset platform for institutions to participate in crypto.
Founded in 2017, Anchorage Digital is a regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated financial services and infrastructure solutions. With the first federally chartered crypto bank in the US, Anchorage Digital offers institutions an unparalleled combination of secure custody, regulatory compliance, product breadth, and client service. We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn.
We are a remote friendly, global team, but provide the option of working in-office in New York City, Sioux Falls, Porto, Lisbon, and Singapore. For our colleagues not located near our beautiful offices, we encourage and sponsor quarterly in-person collaboration days to work together and further deepen our Village.
Anchorage Digital is developing innovative and effective analytics and data governance strategies for its operations as well as meeting regulatory requirements. Your role as the Member of Global Analytics (Data Governance Lead) involves implementing and maturing our enterprise-wide data governance program, and leveraging data analytics to improve firm-wide practices. You will serve as a subject matter expert for the data governance platform, and a point of escalation for governance and data quality issues.
This role requires adaptability due to the diverse range of data analytics projects and governance responsibilities you will manage to support various functions. You should be able to engage with key stakeholders from compliance, finance, IT, InfoSec and data platform on broad data management topics, such as data catalog, data documentation, metadata and data lineage management, targeted data controls, and reporting. You should be comfortable with coding and handling a large set of data, and conducting data analytics projects independently.
We have created the Factors of Growth & Impact to help Villagers better measure impact and articulate coaching, feedback, and the rich and rewarding learning that happens while exploring, developing, and mastering the capabilities and contributions within and outside of the Member of Global Analytics (Data Governance Lead) role:
Technical Skills:
- Direct experience performing detailed and data intensive reconciliations with disparate datasets, preferably in the financial sector.
- Strong understanding of data catalogs, metadata management, data lineage, and other data governance concepts and practices.
Complexity and Impact of Work:
- Oversee the data governance program, identify areas for improvement, and implement best practices to enhance data quality, integrity, and security.
- Develop and implement data quality standards and monitoring processes, including the establishment of data quality metrics, thresholds, and remediation procedures.
- Manage data governance platform (Atlan) and serve as the primary subject matter expert.
- Assist in data classification efforts, including the identification and categorization of sensitive data and critical data elements.
- Manage external data requests, including regulatory inquiries, ensuring compliance with banking regulations.
- Monitor and report on key data governance metrics and KPIs, providing insights and recommendations to senior management.
- Lead data governance meetings and workshops, facilitating discussions and decision-making processes to drive the data governance program forward.
Organizational Knowledge:
- Have a deep knowledge of the strategy of Anchorage Digital and its various business lines. Actively engage with different groups to work on understanding historical transactions as well as requirements for executing on go-forward global strategy.
- Possess strategic thinking and vision, with the ability to develop and implement a comprehensive data governance strategy aligned with organizational goals and objectives.
Communication and Influence:
- Communicate complex issues clearly and credibly across a wide range of audiences.
- Articulate a clear strategy for your function and communicate across the company effectively.
- Build effective relationships and rapport with stakeholders including cross-functional partners and external partners.
- Communicate, organize and execute on cross-team goals and projects, utilizing relationships and resources cross-functionally to solve problems.
You may be a fit for this role if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degrees or certifications in data analytics or governance are preferred.
- Degree in engineering, information management, business administration, or economics preferred.
- Advanced competency in SQL, Python, or other data query and analytical tools.
- Competency with business intelligence and data visualization applications such as Looker, Power BI, or Tableau.
- Experience with database design, understanding complex data schemas and data extraction.
- Proven experience in data governance, data management, or related roles.
- Experience in managing data classification, access controls, and external data requests, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies.
- Detail-oriented mindset, with a focus on ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency in data governance processes and controls.
- Experience in writing, editing, or reviewing technical documents suitable for regulatory or banking context.
Although not a requirement, bonus points if:
- You've kept up to date with the proliferation of blockchain and crypto innovations.
- You were emotionally moved by the soundtrack to Hamilton, which chronicles the founding of a new financial system. :)
Compensation at Anchorage Digital:
- Compensation at Anchorage Digital is market-driven and data-informed. All full-time employees receive a market-leading salary, meaningful equity, and a generous perks and benefits package.
- Compensation Range: $115,000 - $160,000/yr - this salary range may be inclusive of multiple regional locations and job grades. This compensation range will be narrowed during the interview process based on skills, abilities, and experience required. ****We partner with third party firms annually to verify equity, cash, benefits, and perks benchmarks.
- Benefits: Anchorage Digital is proud to provide market-leading benefits and perks to our employees. We are only 1% of companies who offer 100% health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents. This means no monthly out-of-pocket premiums for you or your family. We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees globally.
- You can learn more about our culture and perks and benefits here.
About Anchorage Digital: Who we are
The Anchorage Village, what we call our team, brings together the brightest minds from platform security, financial services, and distributed ledger technology to provide the building blocks that empower institutions to safely participate in the evolving digital asset ecosystem. As a diverse team of more than 300 members, we are united in one common goal: building the future of finance by providing the foundation upon which value moves safely in the new global economy.
Anchorage Digital is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported, and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
Anchorage Digital is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or veteran status. Anchorage Digital considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with other legal requirements. “Anchorage Digital” refers to services that are offered either through Anchorage Digital Bank National Association, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, or Anchorage Lending CA, LLC a finance lender licensed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, License No. 60DBO-11976, or Anchorage Digital Singapore Pte Ltd, a Singapore private limited company, all wholly-owned subsidiaries of Anchor Labs, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
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