Job
- Level
- Senior
- Job Field
- BI, Data
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- 70.000 to 90.000€ gross/year
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you manage the company-wide data catalog, develop data lineage, define data ownership concepts, and create technical requirements while ensuring compliance with data protection regulations.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- Administer and own the company-wide data catalog, including defining and maintaining regulatory data assets, updating the business glossary, and ensuring technical metadata from automated pipelines is correctly tagged and categorized.
- Develop automated end-to-end data lineage across operational and analytical systems to ensure the bank knows exactly where critical data originates and where it lands.
- Further develop the company's Data Governance Operating Model in compliance with BCBS 239, DORA, and GDPR by establishing the policies and procedures for the business processes managed by the Data Department, including data management and access by users.
- Define and maintain ownership concept and for every data product, starting from data marts and dashboards up to data applications.
- Define data owners and resolve conflicts based on data governance policies.
- Design company-wide data contracts and translate them into detailed technical requirements.
- Represent the department in internal and external audits ranging from ad-hoc data requests up to comprehensive documentation.
- Define, maintain and follow SLAs for the overall data platform and critical data elements.
- Further develop the data quality framework and design quality controls for critical data elements.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Degree in Data Management, Computer Science, Mathematics, (Business) Informatics or Finance and Economics.
Qualifications
- Ability to take frameworks like BAIT, MaRisk, DORA, and the EU AI Act and turn them into concrete technical requirements.
- Define automated data controls, lineage and data quality metrics in a way that satisfies strict BaFin or Bundesbank auditors.
- Understanding principles like data minimization, anonymization/pseudonymization, and how to govern 'Right to be Forgotten' requests across interconnected systems and the ability to translate them into technical concepts.
- Proficient SQL, data profiling and template language (e.g. Jinja) skills.
- Solid understanding of data management principles, including ETL/ELT, data warehousing, version control (Git), CI/CD, and automated testing.
- Ability to work with a modern data stack and manage data governance artefacts as code (e.g. Snowflake, dbt, airflow, elementary).
- Excellent English language skills, and preferable German language skills.
- Ability to persuade busy product teams and engineering leads to prioritize data governance and documentation, even when they are focused on shipping new features.
- Acting as an objective mediator when disputes arise over data ownership.
- The ability to simplify complex data concepts and train 'Data Champions' across different business units, building an organic data culture.
- Strategic thinking and sense of business criticality and prioritization.
- Ability to mentor and inspire team members.
- Design 'lean' governance workflows that protect the bank without slowing down innovation.
- Comfortable working with AI tools, thinking critically about AI outputs, and contributing to a culture of responsible AI use. We expect you to demonstrate comfort with AI-assisted workflows and a willingness to continuously develop their AI capabilities as the technology evolves.
Experience
- Minimum 8 years of experience in a data governance professional role in a fast-paced environment and a regulated industry.
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data governance tools (e.g., Atlan, Collibra, Snowflake Horizon).
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What we offer
- Home office budget.
- Learning & development budget of €1000 per year and a transparent growth framework to support your career goals.
- Wettbewerbsfähiges Gehalt und ein variabler Vergütungsplan.
- Monatliche Essenszulage.
- Germany ticket subsidy.
- 28 vacation days, increasing by 2 days after 2 years and 3 days after 3 years with Solaris.
- Opportunity to work abroad for up to 12 weeks per year.
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About Your Employer
SolarisBank
We are leveraging the power of Banking-as-a-Service to remove the barriers for companies to offer their own financial products. Our proprietary Banking-as-a-Service platform enables any business to integrate financial services into new contexts that were previously unimaginable.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
Data Governance Manager
- Salary
- 70.000 to 90.000€ gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad using tax class I.42.583 to 53.245 € net/year · Tax class I
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
