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About the Role

Morningstar DBRS is seeking a Manager, Data Quality & Controls to lead the development and execution of the enterprise data quality and controls program. This role will assess existing controls, identify gaps, and establish standards, processes, and governance to ensure critical data is accurate, complete, well-documented, and fit for purpose. The Manager will drive the data controls roadmap, design scalable quality controls, and partner across various teams to embed strong data practices.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and ongoing enhancement of the enterprise data controls framework, including governance standards, workflows, metrics, issue management, and remediation processes.
Assess existing controls, identify gaps, and drive improvements that align with regulatory requirements, audit expectations, and industry best practices.
Own the data controls roadmap and promote data stewardship, accountability, and ownership across the organization.
Develop and maintain data governance standards, procedures, and controls related to data quality, metadata, lineage, documentation, classification, retention, and issue management.
Implement data quality checks, validations, and monitoring processes to ensure critical datasets remain accurate, complete, and compliant with legal, regulatory, and internal requirements.
Partner with business and technology teams to support platform modernization and data-feed initiatives, ensuring data integrity and control continuity.
Define control requirements for data products, integrations, APIs, analytics, and AI-enabled solutions, while establishing quality standards and validating migration outcomes.
Lead and develop a team of data analysts by providing coaching, setting priorities, and overseeing deliverables.
Drive excellence in data quality monitoring, metadata management, issue remediation, and the adoption of data governance best practices and tools.
Establish data and metadata standards that support AI, analytics, and automation initiatives.
Ensure datasets are properly documented, governed, and controlled, with clear ownership, lineage, and quality measures.
Collaborate with Compliance, Legal, Risk, and Technology teams to promote responsible AI practices, data privacy, and transparent use of enterprise data assets.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Data Science, Computer Science, or Management Studies (Master's a plus).
5+ years of proven experience building a data controls governance program in a regulated financial services environment.
Ability to work independently with senior managers and align stakeholders.
Strong understanding of controls, governance frameworks, data quality, metadata, and lineage.
Experience authoring policies, standards, and procedures, data-quality controls and KPIs.
Experience supporting regulatory data and reporting processes; familiarity with data-related regulatory expectations in financial services is a strong asset.
Prior people-management or team-lead experience, with the ability to coach and develop analysts is a plus, but not required.

Skills

Cloud and data platforms: exposure to modern cloud platforms: Snowflake, Azure, or AWS
Data controls and catalog platforms: experience with metadata, lineage, and catalog tools such as DataHub, Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, or equivalents.
SQL: ability to query, analyze, and validate large datasets in MS SQL Server or similar platforms.
Data quality and lineage: data profiling, reconciliation, root-cause analysis, and end-to-end lineage documentation.
AI controls: working understanding of responsible-AI principles and controls for AI-ready data.
BI and analytics: experience building governance, data-quality, control, or operational dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or similar tools.
Financial data: familiarity with fixed income, structured finance, credit ratings, and capital-markets data; experience with Bloomberg and/or Refinitiv Eikon is a plus.
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain data controls concepts to technical and business audiences.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Subject-matter expertise in data controls, data quality, metadata, lineage, and regulatory data practices.
Sound judgment, attention to detail, and a structured results-oriented approach to complex problems.
Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, and deliver on time.

Location

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Manager
5+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree
Master's Degree

Salary/Compensations

$89,604.00-$137,396.00
20% Annual Incentive Target Percentage

Benefits

A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change.
Tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

About the Company

Morningstar DBRS is a global investment research firm.