Senior Technical Product Manager 1 - AI Enabled Data Governance

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Job Description

The Senior Technical Product Manager - AI Enabled Data Governance is responsible for defining, building, and scaling the enterprise’s integrated governance platform across multi cloud environments and diverse data ecosystems. This leader will architect and operationalize a unified governance experience that connects Snowflake, Databricks Unity Catalog, and other ecosystem technologies to ensure secure, compliant, and trusted data usage across the organization.

The ideal candidate combines deep data governance expertise with strategic product leadership - driving interoperability, automation, data driven innovation, and alignment with regulatory, security, and business objectives.

Key Responsibilities
• Architect and maintain end-to-end governance frameworks for data lineage, data quality, metadata management, access governance, and compliance across AWS, Azure, and on prem environments.
• Establish scalable patterns for metadata ingestion, lineage orchestration, and policy enforcement to ensure consistent and automated governance.
• Unify Snowflake, Databricks Unity Catalog, and adjacent technologies into a cohesive governance fabric that supports interoperability and consistent controls.
• Define integration standards and interoperability patterns to ensure unified governance across platforms, data domains, and cloud environments.
• Define governance operating models for data products, shared datasets, and marketplace offerings to support standardized, governed data consumption.
• Enable secure, compliant, and frictionless data sharing using entitlement frameworks, data contracts, and standardized exchange patterns.
• Partner with SMEs across lineage, data quality, privacy, risk, and engineering to embed governance capabilities into workflows and development lifecycles.
• Lead governance evangelism to promote adoption, improve usability, and drive consistent enterprise wide execution.
• Develop API driven patterns and automation for metadata ingestion, lineage capture, quality metrics, and governance workflows.
• Champion automation first practices to reduce operational overhead, improve governance scalability, and ensure consistent control enforcement.
• Collaborate closely with architecture, engineering, product, risk, and business teams to align governance capabilities with enterprise priorities.
• Influence executive stakeholders through a clear vision, measurable outcomes, and demonstrated strategic impact.
• Define KPIs that measure governance adoption, data quality improvements, regulatory readiness, and platform performance.
• Provide leadership reporting that clearly communicates program value, progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.

Qualifications
• 12–15+ years in data governance, enterprise data management, or platform architecture leadership roles
• Expert level knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, data quality, compliance, and enterprise governance frameworks
• Hands on proficiency with Snowflake, Databricks Unity Catalog, and related governance ecosystem technologies
• Proven experience architecting and governing multi cloud environments (AWS + Azure) and hybrid/on prem integrations
• Experience designing API driven integrations, automation workflows, and governance engineering patterns
• Background in building governed data marketplaces, secure data exchange models, entitlement frameworks, and data contracts
• Experience defining governance standards for data products and enterprise data sharing ecosystems
• Experience with cost optimization, budgeting, and financial governance for platform ecosystems
• Proven product leadership, including vision setting, roadmap development, and backlog management
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across technical, business, and executive domains
• Demonstrated success driving governance adoption in large, complex organizations
• Strong track record delivering strategic roadmaps, KPIs, and modernization outcomes at scale
• Exceptional communication skills with experience presenting to and influencing executive stakeholders
• Experience with AI driven governance automation (e.g., enrichment agents, lineage inference, data quality intelligence)

Preferred Certifications
• Databricks Unity Catalog / Governance focused training
• CDMP, DCAM, or equivalent governance certifications
• Snowflake or cloud governance certifications (AWS / Azure)

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify

U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $148,495.00 - $174,700.00

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.