Senior Lead Data Management Analyst

 

About this role:

Wells Fargo Wealth & Investment Management (WIM) Data Management is seeking a Senior Lead Data Management Analyst to serve functionally as the Strategic Data & Intelligence Enablement Leader. Reporting to the WIM Data & AI Strategic Enablement Leader, this senior individual contributor will translate priority business, data, and AI use cases into governed data and semantic capabilities.

 

The role will lead business-to-data translation, source decisioning, data mapping, semantic modeling, and data-product adoption. For AI-native initiatives, it will define the ontologies, metadata, knowledge representations, grounding context, provenance, and controls needed for reliable AI solutions. The role will partner with Data Product Designers, architects, engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders while remaining focused on strategy, requirements, design direction, and adoption rather than product engineering.

 

In this role, you will:

Act as an advisor to leadership to develop or influence objectives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals for highly complex business and technical needs

Design and conduct highly complex analysis to identify and remediate data quality or integrity issues and to identify and remediate process or control gaps

Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale and require vision, creativity, innovation, advanced analytical and inductive thinking

Evaluate data quality metrics and data quality audits to benchmark the state of data quality

Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions

Recommend remediation of process or control gaps that align to management strategy

Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across the enterprise and serve as an expert advisor to leadership

Represent client in cross-functional groups to develop companywide data governance strategies

Partner with groups companywide to coordinate and drive collaboration on solution design and remediation execution

Translate business and AI use cases into scalable data product solutions.

Analyze and evaluate data sources, mappings, transformations, and business rules.

Define data, semantic, grounding, and traceability requirements for AI applications.

Assess data quality, lineage, metadata, privacy, and governance readiness.

Identify and mitigate data, AI, and semantic risks.

Establish end-to-end data lineage and control frameworks.

Partner with business, technology, risk, compliance, privacy, and architecture teams to deliver governed data solutions.

Required Qualifications:

7+ years of Data Management, Business Analysis, Analytics, or Project Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

5+ years of hands-on experience translating business needs into data requirements, source decisions, mappings, analytical findings, or governed data solutions

7+year of strong background in Data Management, Data Governance, Business Analysis, Data Product Management, and AI Enablement.

Hands-on experience with SQL, data profiling, metadata management, data lineage, and data quality frameworks.

Experience in AI data readiness, semantic models, APIs, governance, and risk controls.

Excellent stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

 

Desired Qualification

 

Financial services experience, preferably in Wealth Management, Investment Management, Brokerage, Fiduciary Services, or Regulatory Reporting.

Strong background in Data Strategy, Data Governance, Data Architecture, Metadata, and Data Product Management.

Hands-on expertise with data analysis, SQL, data profiling, lineage, and quality management.

Experience with Semantic Technologies and Knowledge Graphs (RDF, OWL, SPARQL, SHACL, JSON-LD, FIBO, Protégé).

Familiarity with Generative AI, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Agentic AI, and AI governance frameworks.

Proven ability to lead complex enterprise initiatives, influence senior stakeholders, and mentor teams.

Posting End Date: 

26 Oct 2026

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

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