ETIC, Data Governance, Manager
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Posted on:
08-11-2025
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ManagerJob Description & Summary
At PwC our people in data and analytics engineering focus on leveraging advanced technologies and techniques to design and develop robust data solutions for clients. They play a crucial role in transforming raw data into actionable insights enabling informed decision-making and driving business growth.In data engineering at PwC you will focus on designing and building data infrastructure and systems to enable efficient data processing and analysis. You will be responsible for developing and implementing data pipelines data integration and data transformation solutions.
Role Summary
We are seeking a client-facing Data Governance Manager to design and implement governance programs that enable trusted compliant and high-quality data across our clients enterprises. You will lead governance operating models policies metadata and catalog initiatives data quality management and privacy/security controlsworking closely with stakeholders in Data/Analytics Engineering Security Risk Legal and business domains across the Middle East.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy and Operating Model
Define a pragmatic data governance strategy aligned to client business outcomes.
Establish governance operating models (councils RACI data owner/steward roles).
Develop and maintain policies standards and procedures (quality metadata classification access retention).
Metadata Catalog and Lineage
Stand up and administer enterprise data catalogs and business glossaries.
Identify and manage critical data elements (CDEs) and data domains with clear ownership.
Drive metadata standards and automated lineage for impact analysis and change control.
Data Quality Management
Define data quality dimensions rules thresholds and SLAs for priority datasets.
Implement monitoring alerting and issue management; drive RCA and remediation.
Partner with engineering to embed quality checks into pipelines and data contracts.
Privacy Security and Compliance (Middle East focus)
Implement data classification and handling standards; support privacy-by-design.
Partner with Security/IAM on RBAC/ABAC masking encryption and least-privilege access.
Support compliance with regional and international regulations such as:
Egypt Personal Data Protection Law (Law 151/2020)
KSA PDPL UAE Data Protection Law Bahrain PDPL Qatar PDP Law
GDPR/CPRA (as applicable to client operations)
Sectoral requirements (e.g. SOX PCI DSS HIPAA where relevant)
Advise on cross-border data transfer residency and sovereignty considerations.
Lifecycle and Risk
Define retention/disposal schedules archival practices and defensible disposition.
Review new data sources sharing agreements and vendors for governance and risk impacts.
Change Management and Adoption
Lead governance councils and steward communities; drive accountability and adoption.
Deliver communications training and data literacy programs to uplift capabilities.
Reporting and KPIs
Build governance scorecards covering DQ health lineage coverage glossary adoption and policy compliance.
Report progress and risks to client executives and audit/compliance stakeholders.
Tools and Enablement
Evaluate implement and manage governance tooling (catalog DQ lineage MDM).
Create playbooks templates and self-service guides to scale best practices.
Consulting and Practice Development
Contribute to proposals SOWs and solutioning; estimate effort and plan deliveries.
Coach junior team members; contribute to accelerators and thought leadership.
What Youll Bring
7 years in data governance/data management with at least 2 years leading multi-stakeholder initiatives; consulting experience preferred.
Strong grounding in DAMA-DMBOK and/or DCAM and practical experience with:
Data ownership/stewardship models and governance forums
Data cataloging business glossary and lineage
Data quality frameworks and issue management
Data classification access governance retention and lifecycle
Hands-on experience with relevant tools and platforms (one or more):
Catalog/metadata: Collibra Alation Informatica Axon/EDC Atlan Microsoft Purview
Data quality/observability: Informatica IDQ Great Expectations Monte Carlo Bigeye
MDM: Informatica Reltio Semarchy
Lineage: Built-in catalog lineage MANTA OpenLineage
Cloud/data platforms: Azure (incl. Purview) AWS GCP Snowflake Databricks; strong SQL
Understanding of IAM concepts (RBAC/ABAC) masking/tokenization API governance CDC/event schemas and data-sharing patterns.
Familiarity with ISO 27001 NIST CSF SOC 2 is a plus.
Excellent communication facilitation and stakeholder management skills; ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes.
Education: Bachelors degree in Information Systems Computer Science Data/Analytics or related field; advanced degree/certifications (CDMP DCAM Collibra Ranger CIPP/CIPM/CIPT) are a plus.
Language: Fluent English required; Arabic is a strong plus.
Work authorization in Egypt.
Working Model and Travel
Hybrid role based in Cairo ETIC; collaboration aligned with Gulf business hours as needed.
Regional travel to client sites across the Middle East may be required (up to 2030%) subject to project needs.
Education (if blank degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:Degrees/Field of Study preferred:Certifications (if blank certifications not specified)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback Accepting Feedback Active Listening Agile Scalability Amazon Web Services (AWS) Analytical Thinking Apache Airflow Apache Hadoop Azure Data Factory Coaching and Feedback Communication Creativity Data Anonymization Data Architecture Database Administration Database Management System (DBMS) Database Optimization Database Security Best Practices Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform Data Engineering Data Engineering Platforms Data Infrastructure Data Integration Data Lake Data Modeling 32 moreDesired Languages (If blank desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship
Government Clearance Required
Job Posting End Date
Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- SQL
- Data Collection
- GCP
- Master Data Management
- R
- Data Management
- Clinical Trials
- User Acceptance Testing
- Data Warehouse
- SAS
- Oracle
- Data Analysis Skills
About Company
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