About UOB

United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is a leading bank in Asia with a global network of more than 500 branches and offices in 19 countries and territories in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. In Asia, we operate through our head office in Singapore and banking subsidiaries in China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as branches and offices. Our history spans more than 80 years. Over this time, we have been guided by our values – Honorable, Enterprising, United and Committed. This means we always strive to do what is right, build for the future, work as one team and pursue long-term success. It is how we work, consistently, be it towards the company, our colleagues or our customers.

Job Description

About the Department

Personal Financial Services: We design and provide products and services that empower our customers to enjoy greater banking convenience while they extract more value from their money. In particular, we are focused on promoting and developing healthy saving and investment practices across generations.

Overview Of The Role

Data Management – Data Governance is responsible for multiple aspects of data management and operations for the firm, including database administration and design, business intelligence and architecture, data analytics, governance and quality. Specializes in developing tools and processes to maintain a common, firm-wide data standard. Implement norms of creation and maintenance of common data dictionaries. Assesses, manages, and maintains strategies to reduce data redundancy, increasing the consistency, quality and confidence of data used for decision making. Provide sufficient data points for decision making for system/data structure build.

This role will also lead control perspective for Business Analytics including data/system access controls by providing the guidance and monitoring to ensure data protection and segregation as per requirement.

Job Responsibilities

Lead the team to work closely with data analysts, business users, and other stakeholders to identify data requirements, implement solutions to build common datamarts to be used internally
Drive adoption of data governance principles within the team and also cross functions
Develop data control processes ensuring compliance with internal policies, regulatory standards, and audit requirements (e.g., data privacy, records retention, data access matrix, etc.).
Monitor and assess data‑related risks, implementing mitigation and control activities
Provide solutions for automation, data processing efficiency
Collaborate with IT, Group Technical Team for system implementation/enhancement with proper UAT (when required)
Troubleshoot and resolve any data-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity
Drive the spirit of data governance & control, conduct training and monitor to ensure the controls implemented
Manage and mentor a team of data governance and control professionals
Oversee metadata management practices, ensuring accurate data dictionaries and lineage documentation

Job Requirements

7-10 years relevant experience
Strong knowledge of data management, data quality, metadata, and data controls
Strong skills in SAS/SQL for querying, data transformation, and optimization
Good in integrating data from multiple sources
Understanding of data quality principles to maintain data accuracy
Ability to troubleshoot issues and find efficient solutions to technical challenges
Good verbal and written communication skills for interacting with stakeholders and documenting processes
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities
Understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements
Familiarity with programming languages such as Python, SAS, VBA, SQL
Ability to manage and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines
Ability to work well with cross-functional teams, including data analysts and business users
Dedication to keeping up with the latest tools, and technologies in the data engineering field

Additional Requirements

Be a Part of the UOB Family

UOB is an equal opportunity employer. UOB does not discriminate on the basis of a candidate's age, race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, or other non-merit factors. All employment decisions at UOB are based on business needs, job requirements and qualifications. If you require any assistance or accommodations to be made for the recruitment process, please inform us when you submit your online application.

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Data Governance Team Manager