Senior Data Governance Analyst

About MediaRadar

MediaRadar equips marketing sales and analytics leaders with the intelligence they need to stay ahead. Our platform delivers always-on AI-enabled Creative Competitive Commercial and Market Intelligencespanning ad strategy media spend creative assets and brand messaging across 30 media channels and five million brands.

With deep insights into more than 35 million ad and campaign assets and $280 billion in media spend MediaRadar provides a single interoperable source of truth that plugs seamlessly into enterprise analytics and AI systems. The result: faster cleaner and more actionable intelligence that drives competitive advantage.

About the Role

As a Senior Data Governance Leader you will drive the operational transformation of our global governance function turning multi-industry legacy data into a unified production-ready foundation. You will partner with Data Operations ML teams and international hubs to establish core quality baselines and architect scalable taxonomy and MDM structures. This is a high-impact execution-focused role for a builder who excels at translating governance policy into testable working artifactsensuring our standards remain consistent conflict-free and actively enforced at scale.

Responsibilities

• Author maintain and version enterprise taxonomies business term definitions and master data hierarchies to consolidate legacy structures across four distinct organizations and two industries into a single unified taxonomy
• Translate governance strategies into structured testable data quality rulesassigning consistent rule IDs across taxonomies to ensure governance actively runs in production systems..
• Run routine rule-library analysis to detect duplicates conflicts and coverage gaps and prepare findings for governance review.
• Maintain metadata documentation and change history so definitions and rules remain traceable and auditable.
• Support intake and triage of new rule and definition requests from Data Operations and business stakeholders.
• Prepare reference data and golden-record candidates for governance certification flagging anomalies and exceptions.
• Produce clear documentation and quick-reference guides that help stewards and analysts apply standards independently.
• Assist in preparing governance reporting dashboards and stakeholder updates.

Success Measures

Success in this role will be measured by:

• Rule & Taxonomy Integrity Low and declining rates of duplicate conflicting or orphaned rules and definitions.
• Coverage Measurable progress against taxonomy and reference data coverage targets across tiers.
• Turnaround Timely accurate processing of rule and definition requests within agreed SLAs.
• Traceability Complete auditable change history and documentation for governed artifacts.
• Usability Stewards and analysts can apply standards from documentation without repeated escalation.
• Operationalization Authored rules and definitions are actively used in classification and quality workflows.

Key Qualifications and Role Requirements

• 5 years of hands-on experience in Data Governance Master Data Management (MDM) Data Quality or Data Architecture
• Proven experience building and operationalizing data governance foundations taxonomies and MDM frameworks from the ground up (not just maintaining existing frameworks).
• Hands-on experience maintaining taxonomies controlled vocabularies business glossaries or rule libraries.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with structured data spreadsheets and governance tooling.
• Ability to translate governance decisions into precise consistent testable rules.
• Comfort with ambiguity and evolving standards in a maturing governance environment.
• Familiarity with data quality dimensions (accuracy completeness consistency timeliness).
• Exposure to DAMA / DMBOK concepts a plus.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.

AtMediaRadar we are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone can thrive. We believe that diversity of backgrounds perspectives and experiences makes us stronger and more innovative. We are proud to be anEqual Opportunity Employerand make employment decisions without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation or gender identity) national origin age disability genetic information or any other legally protected status.

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Were excited to meet people who share our values and want to build the future with us.

Required Experience:

Senior IC