Data Steward Director At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career. Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express. American Express National Bank is American Express' U.S. banking operation, representing more than 60% of the company's revenues through consistent payments, financing, and savings products. Led by the Chief Operating Officer, AENB HQ drives the administration of programs and services provided by AENB, in partnership with Bank affiliates and executive officers. In addition, the team plays an enterprise role in driving greater consistency, effectiveness, and efficiency across the first line via the AENB COO Office's Strategic Planning, Control Management, Program Management and Governance functions. The Corporate Functions Governance & Control team within AENB HQ governs first line of defense risk management centrally for the corporate functions: AENB HQ, Corporate Affairs & Communications (CA&C), Colleague Experience Group, Enterprise Strategy (ES), Enterprise Shared Services (ESS), General Counsel's Office (GCO), and Global Risk & Compliance. The Corporate Functions Governance & Control team is looking for a Data Steward Director. As a Data Steward you will lead the team responsible for the day-to-day compliance with the Enterprise Data Risk Management Policy within five of the Corporate Functions (AENB HQ, CA&C, ES, ESS and GCO). You and your team are responsible for identifying critical data, maintaining data definitions, classifying data, supporting data sourcing / usage requests, evaluating Data Risk Controls, and confirming Data Incidents are remediated. You will partner across various business units, technology teams, and product/platform teams to define and implement the data governance strategy, monitor and manage data risks, resolve data/platform issues, and drive consistency, usability, and governance of specific product data across the organization. Primary Responsibilities include: advancing the established data governance principles, managing all Data Risks for the business unit, establishing, maintaining, and testing the effectiveness of controls to manage data risk, facilitating Data Incident capture and coordination, and collaborating with data owners and users to modify or implement new business processes. Qualifications include: 8 years of direct work experience in large scale/enterprise data projects, a consistent record of understanding business challenges and strategies and connecting those to data and capabilities, strong working knowledge of data governance, data management and data product techniques and trends, senior level program management experience, demonstrable experience of driving meaningful improvements in business value through data management and strategy, ability to put enterprise thinking first, and a positive, collaborative leadership style with colleague and customer first attitude.