Chief Data Officer

Our values define us and our culture inspires us to change lives for the better. Our employees are the heart and soul of our company, and every success we experience begins with them. Together we are committed to making a positive impact in our local communities. We champion a culture of continuous learning, work-life integration, and inclusion. We promote a digitally enabled work environment to continuously enhance the experience of our employees and customers.

Establishes, directs, and oversees the corporation's data strategy, governance infrastructure, policies, standards and practices, while maintaining an overall strategic perspective that guides data acquisitions, organization, analyses and utilization in support of the corporation's operational objectives. These strategies are designed to create business value from existing data structures and to identify opportunities for additional value from data both within the business and in combination with additional data sources, outside the corporation. Serves as a steward of the business in supporting data validation, controls, protection and monitoring to help ensure data integrity and compliance with applicable regulations. Also serves as a liaison with the business to ensure that data is collected, stored, shared, protected, and transmitted in a manner consistent with corporate standards. Seeks out program, process and technological improvements and innovations. Proactively addresses potential data issues by working to minimize ambiguity, establishing clear accountabilities and disseminating data related information and procedures to all data stakeholders. Leads by applying both subject matter knowledge and data management expertise in the enhancement of current data integrity assurance processes, the design of an effective overall data architecture, the organization and definition of all key data elements and the institution of data analytics as a core competency for better understanding and positioning the business for success.

Understand, describe, rationalize, protect, organize, manage and provide access to all current Fulton Financial Corporation data.
• Develop and continuously enhance a strategy and architectural objective for collecting, storing, accessing and controlling data.
• Develop and maintain data standards, guidelines, rules, and procedures to support the strategy, architecture and commitments to regulatory compliance.
• Migrate existing data structures, systems, procedures and processes to an overall design that supports the new data management objectives.
• Support both the everyday needs of data processing, inquiry and reporting and the more sophisticated and creative use of data to provide important business insights and useful general management information.
• Work with the business to understand their information based needs and to align the capabilities of data management to support those needs.
• Maintain current knowledge of both new technologies and new data demands of the business. Leverage both forms of knowledge to protect the interests of the business, provide useful operational metrics, efficiently address compliance requirements and help satisfy new customer needs.
• Support the investigation of data issues, data repair, data protection, designs for new systems and research into new uses of available data to support the enterprise.
• Responsible for the creation and leadership of business oriented, yet highly technical, team of experts in data management, business intelligence and analytics. This team is responsible for the transformation of the overall data ecosystem to a condition of reliable values, processing integrity and analytical accessibility.

• Bachelor Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: Data Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related.
• Master Degree or the equivalent experience. Specialty: Data Management, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related.

• 10 or more years deep technical experience in data development, data operations, data strategy, data governance, data architecture.
• 10 or more years IT experience.
• 5 or more years technical and strategic resource management.
• 5 or more years Data Analytics, Visualization, AI and ML.
• 5 or more years banking experience and/or bank consulting experience.

This role may perform other job duties as assigned by the manager. Each employee of the Organization, regardless of position, is accountable for reading, understanding and acting on the contents of all Company-assigned and/or job related Compliance Programs, regulations and policies and procedures, as well as ensure that all Compliance Training assignments are completed by established due dates. This includes but is not limited to, understanding and identifying compliance risks impacting their department(s), ensuring compliance with applicable laws or regulations, and escalating compliance risks to the appropriate level of management.

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base salary ranges on all job postings regardless of state. We set standard salary ranges for our roles based on the position, function, and responsibilities, as benchmarked against similarly sized companies in our industry. Specific compensation offered will be determined based on a combination of factors including the candidate's knowledge, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials. The salary range may vary based on geographic location.

The salary range for this position is $175,000.00 - $291,700.00 annually.

Additional Compensation Components

This job is eligible to receive equity in the form of restricted stock units. This job is eligible to participate in a short-term incentive compensation plan subject to individual and company performance.

Additionally, as part of our Total Rewards program, Fulton Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package to those who qualify. This includes medical plans with prescription drug coverage; flexible spending account or health savings account depending on the medical plan chosen; dental and vision insurance; life insurance; 401(k) program with employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Plan; paid time off programs including holiday pay and paid volunteer time; disability insurance coverage and maternity and parental leave; adoption assistance; educational assistance and a robust wellness program with financial incentives. To learn more about your potential eligibility for these programs, please visit Benefits & Wellness | Fulton Bank.

As a condition of employment, individuals must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship for a work visa by Fulton Bank currently or in the future.