Data Governance Manager

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform, pioneering Banking-as-a-Service to bridge the gap between financial technology and licensed banking. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Solaris enables fintechs, digital ecosystems, and multinationals to embed accounts, cards, lending, and payments directly into their own products, creating seamless financial experiences for their users. As a fully licensed German bank, Solaris combines the highest standards of IT security and regulatory resilience with a modular, highly scalable infrastructure.

Today, Solaris is driving the next evolution of financial services by transitioning into an AI-native banking platform, ensuring European businesses can deploy secure, adaptable financial products at scale.

Why join Solaris?

• 🚀 We are fundamentally redesigning banking processes around AI orchestration, standardized modular building blocks, and embedded regulatory compliance.
• 🎯 We combine tech and banking in dedicated hubs - driving the technology infrastructure out of Berlin and banking operations out of Frankfurt.
• 💡 Through our internal mobility, growth opportunities, and the Solaris Academy, we offer continuous learning tracks, AI ambassador mentorship, and upskilling to keep your skills ahead of the curve.
• ⚖️ We foster a workplace rooted in integrity, proactive risk management, and equality actively driving initiatives like DEI initiatives.

Your Role

• Administer and own the company wide data catalog, including defining and maintaining regulatory data assets, updating the business glossary, and ensuring technical metadata from automated pipelines is correctly tagged and categorized.
• Develop automated end-to-end data lineage across  operational and analytical systems to ensure the bank knows exactly where critical data originates and where it lands.
• Further develop the company Data Governance Operating Model in compliance with BCBS 239, DORA and GDPR, by developing the policies and procedures for the business processes owned by the Data Department including managing and accessing the data by the users.
• Define and maintain ownership concept and for every data product, starting from data marts and dashboards up to data applications
• Define data owners and resolve conflicts based on data governance policies.
• Design company wide data contracts and translate them into detailed technical requirements
• Represent the department in internal and external audits ranging from ad-hoc data requests up to comprehensive documentation.
• Define, maintain and follow SLAs for the overall data platform and critical data elements.
• Further develop the data quality framework and design quality controls for critical data elements.

We'd love to see 

Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team.