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Overview

Old National Bank has been serving clients and communities since 1834. With over $70 billion in total assets, we are a regional powerhouse deeply rooted in the communities we serve. As a trusted partner, we thrive on helping our clients achieve their goals and dreams, and we are committed to social responsibility and investing in our communities through volunteering and charitable giving.

We continually seek highly motivated and talented individuals as our people are critical to our success. In return, we offer competitive compensation with our salary and incentive program, in addition to medical, dental, and vision insurance. 401K, continuing education opportunities and an employee assistance program are also included in our benefit suite. Old National also offers a variety of Impact Network Groups led by team members who are passionate about driving engagement, creating awareness of diverse backgrounds and experiences, and building inclusion across the organization. We offer a unique opportunity to join a growing, community and client-focused company that is firmly rooted in its core values.

Responsibilities

The Data Enablement Director is a strategic, consumer-facing leadership role within Old National Bank's Data Technology organization. Reporting directly to the Chief Data Technology Officer (CDTO), this leader is responsible for driving the adoption, activation, and ongoing expansion of ONB's enterprise data product strategy across all lines of business and functional domains. The role includes direct leadership of product-oriented team members within the central Data Technology organization while also providing indirect leadership, coordination, and oversight across line-of-business product teams to ensure alignment to enterprise data product standards, priorities, and outcomes.

This role serves as the primary champion for ONB's internal data marketplace, enterprise data catalog, and certified data product framework — translating complex data capabilities into meaningful, accessible, and trusted resources for data consumers enterprise-wide. The Director, Data Enablement bridges the gap between data producers and consumers, ensuring that ONB's investment in modern data infrastructure (Databricks, Unity Catalog, and the medallion architecture) is fully realized through high adoption, strong data literacy, and measurable business impact.

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is $127,900/yr - $258,600/yr plus bonus. The base salary indicated for this position reflects the compensation range applicable to all levels of the role across the United States. Actual salary offers within this range may vary based on a number of factors, including the specific responsibilities of the position, the candidate’s relevant skills and professional experience, educational qualifications, and geographic location

Key Accountabilities

Data Marketplace & Catalog Adoption

Champion ONB's internal data marketplace as the primary destination for certified data products, ensuring business users across all six domains (Finance, Risk, Compliance, Retail Banking, Commercial, Operations) can discover and consume trusted data assets.
Own the end-to-end consumer experience within the enterprise data catalog — driving usability, search and discovery, lineage visibility, and glossary completeness.
Define and execute an adoption roadmap for the data marketplace and catalog, including phased rollout strategies, success metrics, and feedback loops.
Partner with Data Governance and Platform teams to ensure catalog accuracy, data product certification standards, and SLA compliance are visible and meaningful to consumers.

Data Product Strategy – Consumer Perspective

Represent the voice of the data consumer in the design and evolution of ONB's data product strategy, operating model, and certification framework.
Collaborate with domain data owners and the Enterprise Data Services (EDS) team to ensure data products are built to meet real consumer needs — with defined SLAs, clear ownership, and intuitive access patterns.
Establish and maintain a demand management process that captures, prioritizes, and routes data product requests from business stakeholders to the appropriate delivery teams.
Develop consumer-facing documentation, data dictionaries, and usage guides that make certified data products accessible to technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Enablement, Training & Data Literacy

Design and deliver enterprise-wide enablement programs that build data literacy, self-service analytics capabilities, and marketplace fluency across all lines of business.
Develop a tiered training curriculum for data consumers — from foundational data awareness to advanced self-service analytics — aligned to role-based personas and business domains.
Partner with HR and LOB leadership to embed data fluency into onboarding programs, role-based development plans, and performance frameworks.
Create and maintain an ONB data enablement community of practice that fosters peer learning, celebrates data-driven wins, and surfaces adoption barriers in real time.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

Serve as a senior liaison between Data Technology and business domain stakeholders — communicating roadmap progress, managing expectations, and building executive-level confidence in the data platform.
Lead change management efforts associated with the shift to a data product-centric operating model, including communication planning, stakeholder alignment, and resistance mitigation.
Partner with the Data Strategy and Product sub-teams to co-develop business cases, adoption metrics, and executive reporting that demonstrate the value of ONB's data investments.
Represent Data Enablement at enterprise forums, town halls, and LOB leadership meetings as a visible advocate for data-driven culture.

Metrics, Reporting & Continuous Improvement

Define and track key adoption and enablement KPIs including marketplace active users, certified data product consumption rates, self-service query volume, training completion, and consumer satisfaction scores.
Produce regular reporting cadences for the CDTO and senior stakeholders on enablement progress, adoption trends, and business impact.
Continuously gather consumer feedback through surveys, office hours, and embedded LOB partnerships to refine the enablement approach and inform platform priorities.

Key Competencies for Position

Develops Talent - You Own You –You own your development and career. Actively assesses self by leveraging feedback to enhance knowledge, skills and behavior. Leverages own strengths and those of team members to meet individual and team goals supporting both internal and external client needs. Continuously develops self for current and future roles.
Promotes Change - Actively seeks information to understand the rationale, implications, and impact for changes. Remains agile by quickly modifying daily behavior, leveraging resources, and trying new approaches to effectively embrace change. Willing to act quickly, learn and adjust as needed. Identifies and recommends changes to leadership to improve performance. Aligns activities to meet individual, team and organizational goals
Strategy in Action - Breaks down larger goals into smaller achievable goals and communicates how they are contributing to the broader goal. Actively seeks to understand factors and trends that may influence role. Anticipates risks and develops contingency plans to manage risks. Identifies opportunities for improvement and seeks insights from other sources to generate potential solutions. Aligns activities to meet individual, team and organizational goals.
Compelling Communication - Effectively and transparently shares information and ideas with others. Tailors the delivery of communication in a way that engages the audience and that is easy to understand and retain. Unites others towards common goal. Asks for others' opinions and ideas and listens actively to gain their support when clarifying expectations, agreeing on a solution and checking for satisfaction.
Makes Decisions & Solves Problems - Takes ownership of the problem while collaborating with others on a resolution with an appropriate level of urgency. Collaborates and seeks to understand the root causes of problems. Evaluates the implications of new information or events and recommends solutions using decisions that are sound based on what is known at the time. Takes action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.
Delights Clients -. Passionately serves internal/external clients with excellence. Maintains a growth mindset staying current with developments and trends in areas of expertise influencing client satisfaction both internally and externally. Understands data, metrics and/or financial information, and how they tie to client satisfaction and business outcomes related to position, client and/or team. Nurtures client relationships by listening, prioritizing, and acting responsibly to meet client needs, mitigate risk and add shareholder value.
Leads Inclusively - Seeks diverse relationships to learn more about people from other cultures and backgrounds. Gathers information with curiosity and humility to learn more about people from other cultures and backgrounds including impacts on norms, behaviors and expectations (e.g., social norms, decision-making approaches, and preferences) Advocates for diverse perspectives. Continually examines own biases and behaviors to avoid stereotypical responses.
Personifies ONB Culture - Consistently demonstrates Old National's culture and values in daily interactions. Models our values -how we show up in the workplace. Places the organization's goals before individual or team goals. Demonstrates the desire to be part of something beyond themselves by investing time, heart, and expertise to help clients and communities thrive.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

Required

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Analytics, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
8+ years of progressive experience in data management, analytics, or data strategy roles, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership capacity.
Demonstrated experience driving adoption of enterprise data platforms, data catalogs, or self-service analytics tools at scale.
Proven track record as a change leader and storyteller who can translate technical data concepts for executive and non-technical audiences.
Strong understanding of modern data architectures including cloud-based data platforms, medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold), and data product frameworks.
Experience with enterprise data catalog and governance tools (e.g., Unity Catalog, Alation, Collibra, Purview, or equivalent).
Exceptional executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred

Experience in financial services, banking, or a similarly regulated industry.
Familiarity with Databricks, Unity Catalog, and/or cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS).
Knowledge of data mesh principles, decentralized data ownership models, and domain-oriented data architectures.
Experience building and scaling data literacy or analytics enablement programs across large organizations (5,000+ employees).
Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, or other BI platforms used in self-service analytics contexts.

Key Measures of Success/Key Deliverables:

Data marketplace is fully launched with documented onboarding paths and active consumers across all six business domains.
Enterprise data catalog reflects 90%+ certified data product coverage with consumer-ready metadata, lineage, and glossary entries.
A tiered data literacy curriculum is live, with measurable completion and self-service adoption metrics reported to senior leadership.
A formal demand management process is operational, with SLA-backed intake and routing for data product requests from business stakeholders.
CDTO and LOB executives receive a regular enablement scorecard with adoption trends, consumer satisfaction, and business impact stories.

Old National is proud to be an equal opportunity employer focused on fostering an inclusive workplace and committed to hiring a workforce comprised of diverse backgrounds, cultures and thinking styles.

As such, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have an agreement signed by the Director of Talent Acquisition, SVP, to fill a specific position.

Our culture is firmly rooted in our core values.

We are optimistic. We are collaborative. We are inclusive. We are agile. We are ethical.

We are Old National Bank. Join our team!