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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Director, Data Management & Governance - **Company:** Live Oak Bank - **Location:** Wilmington, NC, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $190,180.0 - $262,140.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Database, Cyber Security, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Retention, Metadata, Meta-Data Management, Collibra, Data Management, Databricks - **Published:** August 24, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ca4670ec3c9e4000 ## About the Role * 8+ years in data management, data quality, data governance, or related, including 3+ years leading teams * Strong track record of business partnership - translating business strategy and operational needs into data outcomes * Deep hands-on experience with data quality practices, tooling, and the operational work of driving quality * Experience leading a data stewardship or similar cross-functional data community * Data governance experience - designing and running programs proportionate to the risk and regulatory environment * Working knowledge of modern data platforms - Databricks, Unity Catalog, dbt, Fivetran, cloud data warehouses * Strong communicator across a range of audiences - business SMEs, Data Stewards, technical partners, regulators * Comfortable in a player-coach model - doing the work as much as directing it Preferred Experience * AI-related data governance experience * Experience in banking or another regulated financial services environment * Experience implementing or maturing a data retention program * Familiarity with Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Anomalo, or similar data quality monitoring tools * Experience with data catalog tools (Unity Catalog, Alation, Atlan, Collibra) and metadata management approaches * Exposure to model risk management or SR 11-7 * Exposure to third-party risk management processes in financial services * Background supporting Data Science or ML teams ## Description * Build deep relationships with business leaders - understanding their strategy, their goals, how they use data today, and where their pain points and growth opportunities are * Stay close to where the business is heading, and shape a data management agenda that supports the bank's strategic direction * Work directly with the business to resolve complex data issues and identify where processes should evolve to improve data quality at the source * Partner with the CDAO and the rest of D&A leadership to prioritize where the team invests Data Management: Quality, Metadata & Semantic Layer * Lead Live Oak's data quality program - expanding monitoring coverage, driving down open exceptions, and building trust in the data across teams * Own metadata management in the data platform, including the business glossary, classification, and lineage that make data findable and understandable * Advance the semantic layer, helping business and technical teams speak a common language about the data * Prepare the bank's data foundations for AI and agentic consumption - ensuring quality, semantic clarity, and metadata are robust enough to support how these systems will increasingly work with our data * Own Live Oak's relationship with Monte Carlo, our data quality monitoring platform Data Stewardship & Operational Integration * Lead the Data Stewardship program - supporting stewards across business domains, running its operating rhythm, and growing the community as the program expands * Partner with stewards to embed data quality checks and rules into their daily work, so DQ becomes an operational practice rather than a separate monitoring exercise * Use the Stewardship community as a two-way channel - bringing business context into data decisions, and bringing data awareness into business teams Governance, Risk & Team Leadership * Continue maturing Live Oak's data governance program - evolving policies, standards, and processes as the bank grows and as regulatory expectations shift * Serve as the data governance voice on the bank-wide vendor management program, participating regularly in vendor reviews and third-party risk processes where data is involved * Partner with Information Security, Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, and - when relevant - external regulators * Lead, coach, and develop the data management, data quality, and data governance team, and shape how it grows as the program expands, * Dedication: Possess a deep commitment to Live Oak Bank's mission and core values, exemplified through a strong work ethic, adaptability and pride in your work. * Ownership: Take initiative to deliver positive results by proactively and creatively solving problems, while maintaining a high degree of quality. * Respect: Treat everyone with courtesy, politeness, and kindness. * Innovation: Embrace fresh ideas and fearlessly contribute new solutions to emerging or existing problems. * Teamwork: Foster collaboration, accountability, and trust with others and understand that together, we do more ## Related Videos - [A Data Mesh needs Open Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/505-a-data-mesh-needs-open-metadata) - [Cutting LLM Costs Without Cutting Quality: How to Beat Proprietary LLMs with Fine-Tuned Open Source](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100151-cutting-llm-costs-without-cutting-quality-how-to-beat-proprietary-llms-with-fine-tuned-open-source) - 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