About Us

Live Oak is more than a bank. Live Oak helps people realize their full potential so they can create meaningful impact at work, home or in their communities. As an innovation hub, we fully embrace a bold approach to solving problems and surpassing goals. Daily life at Live Oak centers around a culture of taking care of each other, which has made us one of the most desirable places to work. We’ve topped the list of American Banker’s “Best Banks to Work For” because of our unparalleled dedication to our people. Our commitment to our customers and our culture is intertwined, so we seek those who embody and embrace what it takes to empower the American dream. Learn more at liveoakbank.com. 

How This Role impacts Live Oak and its People

Data is core to the future of Live Oak. To help the bank achieve its strategic goals, the Data & Analytics team is focused on driving business value through data that creates a sustainable competitive advantage for our company. The Head of Data Management & Governance will play a core part in these efforts by ensuring that our data assets are protected, understood, trusted and accessible.

What You’ll Do at Live Oak
Live Oak has recently embarked on an initiative to build our next-gen data platform that will power the company's analytics and modeling going forward. We are looking for a Head of Data Management & Governance to help make this initiative a success by building out our capabilities in governance, quality, mastering, and literacy of our data. If the opportunity to build a management and governance program the right way from inception in a modern data architecture (AWS, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran, Atlan/Alation) is enticing to you, then we’d love to speak with you!

This individual will act as a player/coach, growing our small Data Management team while implementing policies and best practices that enable our data consumers to spend time thinking about the meaning of data rather than how to get correct data and provide confidence to our board and regulators that our data is being managed properly. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an interest in understanding the strategic needs of the business and will need to communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and operate in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.

How You’ll Do It

• Develop, implement, and maintain data management policies, procedures and best practices across the enterprise
• Drive vendor selection process for, implementation of, and ongoing management responsibility for the data catalog, data quality, and master data management tools
• Manage the day-to-day team and operations of resources within our data organization including governance, data quality, and master data management analysts
• Build strong relationships with Governance Leads and other business leaders to understand their data needs
• Define and interpret data/metrics/KPIs, analyze results, and provide insights to determine operational impact, trends and opportunities across the organization.
• Partner with the Data Engineering and Information Security teams to drive implementation of data governance and data security related processes
• Establish and evangelize best practices, frameworks and processes for data management, metadata cataloging and quality controls

Required and Preferred Experience

• 10+ years of experience within data governance, data management and data quality with 5+ years of experience managing/leading teams
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality and data management practices, preferably within banking or other financial services
• Knowledge of data-related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
• Experience with managing Data Governance frameworks and establishing methodologies, ideally within the context of Amazon’s Web Services (AWS)
• Data Catalog experience with tools such as Alation or Atlan
• Experience implementing MDM tools such as Reltio, Semarchy or Riversand
• A seasoned professional with proven experience in leading/managing change to enable the full realization of data as a strategic company asset.
• Strong understanding of data platforms, data engineering, data integration, data reporting/analytics, data science, MDM and Metadata management tools.
• Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous situations and have influence across organizational boundaries through excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Expertise within cloud data architecture, databases and tools; AWS, Snowflake, Informatica, Databricks, Kafka, Airflow, dbt, Fivetran, among others
• Nice to have: Experience working with and supporting Data Science teams, including an understanding of the modeling process and lifecycle.
• Work sponsorship is not supported, now or in the future 
• If remote, must be able to work east coast hours (8-5 pm EST) 

Required to Thrive at Live Oak

• Dedication – You 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 – You take initiative to deliver positive results by proactively and creatively solving problems, while maintaining a high degree of quality.
• Innovation – You embrace fresh ideas and fearlessly contribute new solutions to emerging or existing problems.
• Teamwork – You foster collaboration, accountability and trust with others and understand that together, we do more.
• Respect – You treat everyone with courtesy, politeness and kindness.

"At Live Oak Bank, we are passionately focused on creating an inclusive and genuine environment! We encourage you to apply for roles that you believe you’d be a great fit for, even if you feel your past experience does not perfectly match every requirement. As we continue to grow, our Talent Team will match the skillsets of current and prior applicants with open roles within our organization. As we say at Live Oak, "Paint the Target!" and go after your goals!" 

Live Oak Bank is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled. We consider applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status or disability. Equal access to programs, service and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify human resources at careers@liveoak.bank

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Commitment to Diversity
Live Oak Bank is committed to creating and maintaining a workplace in which all employees have an opportunity to participate and contribute to the success of the business and are valued for their skills, experience, and unique perspectives. This commitment is embodied in company policy and the way we do business at Live Oak Bank and is an important principle of sound business management.