Data Governance Manager
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Job Location:
Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Description
Data Governance Manager
About Us:
About Us:
At Sitecore our mission is to simplify how brands reach engage and serve people by delivering intelligentpersonaliseddigital experiences that connect the world. We empower the worlds most iconic brands to build lifelong relationships with their customersseamlessly smartlyand atscale.
As the leading provider of agentic digital experience software Sitecore brings together content commerce and data into one composable platform that enables brands to deliver millions of meaningful adaptive experiences every day. Trusted by global leaders such as American Express Porsche Starbucks and LOréal Sitecore helps brands transform engagement through experiences that are not onlypersonalisedbut predictive and dynamic.
Our foundation is our peoplea diverse passionate and collaborative global team spanning over 25 countries. We believe that every experience matters and that belief starts with how we work together.Our valuesguide how we lead innovate and connect. They are thebehaviorsthat bring our mission and vision to life every day in every interaction.
As we continue to evolve we are actively cultivating AI skills across our teams to unlock new levels of creativity efficiency and insight. From engineering to customer experience AI capabilities are becoming integral to how we design build and deliver the next generation of digital experiences.
About the Role
We are seeking a Data Governance Manager to establish and uphold Sitecores enterprise data governance framework ensuring our data is wellgoverned highquality compliant and responsibly managed.
In this role you will lead the operationalisation of data governance practices across data security protection and quality within Microsoft Fabric. Your work will enable agentic AI selfservice analytics and data science to operate on reliable wellgoverned data in alignment with Sitecores data strategy. You will partner closely with Information Security Data Protection Data Engineering and business stakeholders to embed governance into the core of our data ecosystem ensuring regulatory compliance and adherence to Sitecores security and data protection policies.
What Youll Do
Data Security
- Partner with InfoSec to define and apply the required security principles across all Microsoft Fabric data sources.
- Lead the implementation of robust data security guidelines and access controls to ensure governed auditable and least privilege access to data.
- Apply granular security controls such as access controls sensitivity labels encryption masking and rolebased access to safeguard sensitive data assets.
- Review and optimise current roles and crossteam access to maintain secure and scalable data accessibility.
- Assess and manage the security implications of Agentic AI initiatives (ex. Fabric Data Agents Copilot Agents) and machine learning use cases.
Data Protection Privacy & Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure Fabric Lakehouse compliance with GDPR privacybydesign principles and internal privacy and retention policies throughout the data lifecycle.
- Champion lawful processing data minimisation and transparency ensuring compliance with regulations while enabling effective data utilisation.
- Establish and maintain data retention and lifecycle governance ensuring alignment with regulatory and legal requirements.
- Partner with Data Protection and InfoSec to ensure that privacy expectations and obligations are consistently met.
- Operationalise Microsoft Purview for classification retention sensitivity and policy enforcement across the enterprise.
Data Quality Management
- Establish enterprisewide data quality frameworks across granular datasets aggregated layers semantic models and pipelines.
- Implement data quality rules validation checks thresholds anomaly detection and automated alerting to proactively identify and resolve issues.
- Monitor data volume trends and system health metrics to ensure reliable and highquality data for analytics reporting and AI workloads.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering to resolve issues related to accuracy completeness timeliness and consistency.
Audit & Monitoring
- Implementing rigorous audit controls across data processes to ensure validity security and traceability of data assets.
- Implement ongoing monitoring and audits of user activity and access anomalies across Fabric and integrated environments.
- Produce and maintain governance documentation supporting audit readiness and demonstrating compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
Collaboration & Enablement
- Partner with Information Security Data Protection Data Engineering and business stakeholders to align governance framework with organisational needs.
- Enable selfservice analytics AI and data science by ensuring that underlying data is secure compliant and highquality.
- Contribute to governance playbooks standards and scalable best practices.
What You Need to Succeed
- 10 years of experience in data governance data security data protection/privacy data quality or enterprise data management with at least 2 years in people management.
- Bachelors degree in computer science IT or a related field.
- Demonstrated leadership in data security and access governance including multi-layer security encryption masking sensitivity labels and leastprivilege principles across distributed data platforms.
- Experience designing and operationalising data quality frameworks including rules checks thresholds automated alerts and anomaly detection across multiple data layers.
- Good experience in audit monitoring traceability and regulatory compliance processes with the ability to design and maintain scalable governance controls.
- Handson experience with Microsoft Fabric or similar modern data platforms such as Databricks or Snowflake.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Purview for lineage classification sensitivity retention management and policy enforcement or similar tools or frameworks.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure AWS GCP particularly in areas related to security models identity storage governance and data access patterns.
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across security legal engineering and business functions.
- A strategic mindset with strong analytical and problemsolving skills capable of translating regulatory and organisational requirements into scalable processes.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills able to articulate governance standards expectations and decisionmaking clearly and effectively.
Additional Skills That Could Set You Apart
- Knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements (e.g. GDPR Data Protection Act EU AI Act) and industry frameworks (e.g. SOC2 NIST) or similar compliance standards.
- Good understanding of governance considerations for AI Copilot agentic automation and selfservice analytics including responsible data use and risk management.
- Experience with AI practices data engineering or data management.
Sitecore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without unlawful regard to race color ancestry religion gender national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability veteran status or any other local legally protected characteristic.
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
Sitecore connects content, data, and personalization in one AI-powered platform. Move faster, work smarter, and create experiences that redefine what’s possible.
