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About the Role

This role is accountable for defining and governing the structure, standards, and usability of HR data to ensure people data is trusted, well-controlled, and fit for downstream consumption across enterprise platforms, analytics environments, and regulatory use cases.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership and accountability for HR data architecture, data governance, and data quality.
Define and maintain the HR enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and business data models for core people data domains.
Establish and govern canonical HR data models.
Define system-of-record, system-of-maintenance, and system-of-consumption designations for HR data elements.
Maintain standardized HR data structures, hierarchies, and reference data.
Ensure HR data architecture aligns with enterprise data models and supports cross-functional use cases.
Design and govern HR data to be consumption-ready for downstream systems.
Define and maintain data contracts for HR data outputs.
Ensure HR data is modeled at the appropriate level of detail and aggregation.
Establish standards for derived, calculated, and enriched HR data elements.
Partner with enterprise data and analytics teams to ensure HR data integrates cleanly.
Ensure privacy, confidentiality, and data minimization principles are embedded into HR data structures.
Act as the escalation point for downstream data consumption issues.
Partner and contribute to data migration activities.
Lead the execution of HR data governance.
Define and oversee HR data ownership and stewardship models.
Ensure governance processes align with enterprise CDO guidance, internal control frameworks, and industry best practices.
Promote disciplined use of approved HR data definitions and standards.
Maintain HR data governance artifacts within the enterprise data governance platform.
Establish inventories of critical HR data elements and downstream data products.
Define and monitor data quality controls and KPIs.
Ensure data quality issues impacting downstream systems are prioritized, root-caused, and remediated.
Provide senior HR leadership with clear visibility into data quality risks and impacts.
Ensure HR data architecture and governance practices support regulatory, audit, and risk requirements.
Serve as HR's subject matter expert on people data structure, lineage, and usage in regulatory inquiries and audits.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Privacy, and enterprise data teams to ensure downstream use of HR data is appropriate and controlled.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience designing canonical data models and data standards for downstream consumption.
Experience defining data contracts, lineage, quality controls, and governance processes.
Experience working with enterprise data platforms and governance tooling (e.g., Collibra or equivalent).
Experience operating in regulated or highly controlled environments preferred.
10+ years of experience in data architecture, data governance, people data, or enterprise data management.
Strong understanding of HR data domains within large, complex organizations.

Skills

Deep expertise in data architecture, data modeling, and data governance, with a strong focus on consumption-oriented design.
Ability to translate HR concepts into clear, structured, and standardized data constructs.
Strong influencing skills across HR, enterprise data, analytics, and control functions.
Excellent communication skills, particularly in explaining data structures and standards to senior, non-technical stakeholders.
High level of discretion and integrity in handling sensitive employee data.

Location

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred (Data Management, Information Systems, HR, Business, or related field).

Salary/Compensations

$169,000.00 - $210,000.00

Benefits

Competitive portfolio of benefits

About the Company

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group headquartered in Tokyo with a 400-year history.
Offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance.
Has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries.
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.
SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.
In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.
Offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients.
Connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network.

Equal Opportunity

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.