Data Governance Lead

3 days ago

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India OptiSol Business Solutions Full time

Position - Data Governance Lead

Exp: 10+ Yrs

Locations: Chennai | Madurai | Coimbatore

Role Summary:

We are seeking a seasoned
Data Governance Lead
to drive enterprise-wide data governance, architecture, and management initiatives. This role will be pivotal in establishing data standards, ensuring data quality, and enabling secure, compliant, and value-driven data usage across the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Data Governance & Stewardship
  • Lead the implementation of data governance frameworks, policies, and standards.
  • Define and manage data ownership, stewardship roles, and accountability structures.
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOX etc).
  • Data Architecture & Modeling
  • Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
  • Collaborate with business and technical teams to ensure models align with business needs.
  • Promote standardization and reuse of data assets across platforms.
  • Data Migration & Integration
  • Lead data migration strategies for legacy systems and cloud platforms.
  • Ensure data integrity, lineage, and quality during migrations.
  • Work with ETL and integration teams to streamline data flows.
  • Data Visualization & Analytics Enablement
  • Partner with BI teams to ensure data is structured for effective visualization.
  • Support dashboard and reporting initiatives with clean, well-governed data.
  • Promote self-service analytics through governed data catalogs.
  • Data Security & Privacy
  • Collaborate with InfoSec to implement data protection controls.
  • Ensure sensitive data is classified, encrypted, and accessed securely.
  • Monitor and audit data access and usage patterns.
  • Metadata & Lineage Management
  • Implement metadata management tools and practices.
  • Maintain data lineage documentation to support traceability and impact analysis.
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Act as a liaison between business units, IT, and data teams.
  • Educate stakeholders on data governance principles and best practices.
  • Drive cultural change toward data-driven decision-making.

Required Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience in data management, with at least 3 years in a data governance or architecture leadership role.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Experience in Agile project environments.
  • Experience in projects using Snowflake for data migration, data warehouse and governance
  • Strong understanding of DAMA-DMBOK principles.
  • Hands-on experience with data modeling tools (e.g., Erwin, PowerDesigner).
  • Experience with data governance platforms (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation).
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud platform
  • Knowledge of data privacy regulations and security frameworks.

Preferred Skills:

  • Certifications such as CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) are a plus.

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