Data Governance Lead

Experience

7+ Years

Joining Date

Immediate or max 30 days' Notice Period

Qualification

Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.

We are looking for an experienced Data Governance Lead to design, implement, and oversee enterprise-wide data governance capabilities across a multi-tenant data platform. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in data governance frameworks, metadata and cataloguing systems, data quality management, data privacy, and cross-organizational stakeholder leadership.

This role requires establishing governance policies, defining operating models, collaborating with both technical and business teams, and ensuring consistent, compliant data management practices.

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive data governance framework that includes policies, standards, roles, and responsibilities.
• Establish a data governance operating model covering stewardship, ownership, approval workflows, and cross-domain accountabilities.
• Define guidelines for data classification, retention, data lifecycle, and privacy-by-design practices.
• Coordinate governance councils, working groups, and cross-functional governance activities.
• Lead the implementation and adoption of enterprise metadata and cataloguing tools (Purview, Informatica, Collibra, or similar).
• Define and enforce metadata standards covering technical, business, and operational metadata.
• Implement lineage visibility across ingestion, transformation, analytics, and consumption layers.
• Ensure metadata is accurate, complete, and up to date across environments.
• Define enterprise data quality dimensions, rules, thresholds, and monitoring processes.
• Implement data quality scorecards, dashboards, and automated rule enforcement.
• Lead root-cause analysis for quality issues and drive remediation initiatives with data owners and engineering teams.
• Establish processes for ongoing measurement of data accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and validity.
• Define and enforce data access governance, including approvals, segregation of duties, and usage policies.
• Ensure data classification, sensitivity tagging, and privacy constraints are adhered to across all domains.
• Collaborate with security, privacy, and legal teams to implement compliant data handling practices.
• Support audits, compliance checks, and risk assessments.
• Develop governance mechanisms ensuring complete isolation between tenant environments, including metadata, access, and quality domains.
• Define standardized onboarding and governance workflows for new business units or entities.
• Maintain consistency in governance controls across all tenant environments while supporting entity-specific needs.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all governance-related matters.
• Partner with data engineering, security, analytics, and business teams to ensure governance controls are embedded end-to-end.
• Lead workshops, training sessions, and awareness programs to promote data literacy and governance adoption.
• Manage feedback cycles and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Develop governance playbooks, policy documents, standard operating procedures, and stewardship manuals.
• Create onboarding guidelines for new entities or business domains.
• Ensure complete knowledge transfer to internal teams, including governance roles, tools, workflows, and best practices.

• 7+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or enterprise data leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage,?cataloguing, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience implementing or managing data governance platforms (IDMC, Collibra, Purview, Alation).
• Strong knowledge of data management best practices (DCAM, DAMA-DMBOK, CDMC, ISO standards).
• Deep understanding of data privacy, data classification, retention, and compliance principles.
• Experience working with multi-team or multi-entity governance ecosystems.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Certifications

• CDMP (DAMA)
• DCAM
• Certifications in metadata systems

Comprehensive Health Plans

Learning and development

Workation and outdoor training

Hybrid working environment

On-site travel Opportunity

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