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Data Governance Lead Data Governance, Data Quality, Lineage & Observability
Job Location:
Job Location:
Malvern, PA - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 130000 - 160000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
17 October 2026 (3 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
14 January 2027
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Job Title: Data Governance Lead Data Governance Data Quality Lineage & Observability
Location: NJ/NYC/Charlotte/Washington DC area/Columbus OH/Malvern PA
Duration: : Fulltime
Salary Range: $130000-$160000 a year
Job Description: 12 years of experience in enterprise data management with strong expertise across Data Governance Data Quality Metadata Data Lineage and Data Observability.
Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise Data Governance operating models policies standards controls stewardship structures decision rights and governance forums.
Strong hands-on knowledge of business and technical metadata data catalog glossary classification ownership critical data elements and end-to-end lineage.
Deep understanding of Data Quality frameworks including profiling rule design controls scorecards issue management root-cause analysis remediation and continuous monitoring.
Experience establishing Data Observability capabilities spanning freshness volume schema distribution pipeline health anomalies incidents service levels and operational dashboards.
Ability to integrate governance quality lineage and observability controls across cloud lakehouse data warehouse data inte-gration and analytics ecosystems.
Experience with one or more enterprise platforms such as Collibra Informatica CDEligible to work/Axon/EDC/IDQ Microsoft Purview Alation Atlan BigID Monte Carlo Bigeye Databricks Unity Catalog or comparable tools.
Strong knowledge of data architecture data modeling ETL/ELT APIs batch/streaming pipelines SQL and cloud data plat-forms such as Azure AWS Databricks or Snowflake.
Experience defining governance and quality KPIs/KRIs control evidence data issue workflows auditability and executive re-porting.
Good understanding of privacy security retention regulatory and risk-management expectations relevant to financial ser-vices including Client 239 GDPR/CCPA and data-control principles.
Proven experience leading discovery workshops current-state assessments target-state design roadmaps tool evaluations implementation planning and adEligible to workion/change initiatives.
Strong consulting stakeholder-management and communication skills with the ability to engage business risk compliance data engineering and executive stakeholders.
Preferred certifications in DAMA/CDMP DCAM Collibra Informatica Microsoft Purview cloud data platforms data quality or related disciplines.
Roles & Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of an integrated Data Governance Data Quality Data Lineage and Data Observability capability for enterprise data platforms.
Translate business regulatory risk and technology needs into pragmatic governance policies standards controls processes and implementation roadmaps.
Define the operating model including accountable data owners business and technical stewards governance councils RACI escalation paths and decision rights.
Establish enterprise metadata business glossary data catalog classification critical data element and ownership practices.
Design Data Quality lifecycle processes covering profiling rule definition thresholds monitoring scorecards issue triage root-cause analysis and remediation governance.
Define and operationalize end-to-end lineage from source through transformatio ns to reports analytics regulatory outputs and AI use cases.
Establish observability monitoring for data freshness completeness volume schema distribution pipeline reliability anoma-lies and data incidents; align alerts with support and remediation workflows.
Develop control frameworks KPIs/KRIs dashboards and executive reporting to demonstrate data health control effective-ness risk reduction and adEligible to workion.
Evaluate and configure governance tooling; define integration patterns with data platforms ETL/ELT BI ticketing CI/CD and cloud services.
Partner with data architecture engineering platform security privacy risk and business teams to embed governance controls within delivery lifecycle and DataOps practices.
Lead workshops architecture/design reviews backlog prioritization implementation governance testing release readiness and production adEligible to workion.
Manage risks dependencies and issues; provide clear recommendations and escalate decisions requiring senior stakeholder intervention.
Mentor governance leads data stewards analysts and engineers; create reusable accelerators templates playbooks and knowledge assets.
Support solutioning proposals effort estimation client presentations and capability development for Data Governance and Data Management opportunities.
Generic Managerial Skills If any
Strong leadership and stakeholder-management skills across business technology risk compliance and data organizations.
Excellent written verbal and presentation skills for technical business and executive audiences.
Consultative problem-solving approach with the ability to simplify complex governance and technology topics.
Experience leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams and driving outcomes without direct authority.
Strong planning prioritization facilitation negotiation risk management and decision-making skills.
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Location: NJ/NYC/Charlotte/Washington DC area/Columbus OH/Malvern PA
Duration: : Fulltime
Salary Range: $130000-$160000 a year
Job Description: 12 years of experience in enterprise data management with strong expertise across Data Governance Data Quality Metadata Data Lineage and Data Observability.
Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise Data Governance operating models policies standards controls stewardship structures decision rights and governance forums.
Strong hands-on knowledge of business and technical metadata data catalog glossary classification ownership critical data elements and end-to-end lineage.
Deep understanding of Data Quality frameworks including profiling rule design controls scorecards issue management root-cause analysis remediation and continuous monitoring.
Experience establishing Data Observability capabilities spanning freshness volume schema distribution pipeline health anomalies incidents service levels and operational dashboards.
Ability to integrate governance quality lineage and observability controls across cloud lakehouse data warehouse data inte-gration and analytics ecosystems.
Experience with one or more enterprise platforms such as Collibra Informatica CDEligible to work/Axon/EDC/IDQ Microsoft Purview Alation Atlan BigID Monte Carlo Bigeye Databricks Unity Catalog or comparable tools.
Strong knowledge of data architecture data modeling ETL/ELT APIs batch/streaming pipelines SQL and cloud data plat-forms such as Azure AWS Databricks or Snowflake.
Experience defining governance and quality KPIs/KRIs control evidence data issue workflows auditability and executive re-porting.
Good understanding of privacy security retention regulatory and risk-management expectations relevant to financial ser-vices including Client 239 GDPR/CCPA and data-control principles.
Proven experience leading discovery workshops current-state assessments target-state design roadmaps tool evaluations implementation planning and adEligible to workion/change initiatives.
Strong consulting stakeholder-management and communication skills with the ability to engage business risk compliance data engineering and executive stakeholders.
Preferred certifications in DAMA/CDMP DCAM Collibra Informatica Microsoft Purview cloud data platforms data quality or related disciplines.
Roles & Responsibilities
Lead the design and implementation of an integrated Data Governance Data Quality Data Lineage and Data Observability capability for enterprise data platforms.
Translate business regulatory risk and technology needs into pragmatic governance policies standards controls processes and implementation roadmaps.
Define the operating model including accountable data owners business and technical stewards governance councils RACI escalation paths and decision rights.
Establish enterprise metadata business glossary data catalog classification critical data element and ownership practices.
Design Data Quality lifecycle processes covering profiling rule definition thresholds monitoring scorecards issue triage root-cause analysis and remediation governance.
Define and operationalize end-to-end lineage from source through transformatio ns to reports analytics regulatory outputs and AI use cases.
Establish observability monitoring for data freshness completeness volume schema distribution pipeline reliability anoma-lies and data incidents; align alerts with support and remediation workflows.
Develop control frameworks KPIs/KRIs dashboards and executive reporting to demonstrate data health control effective-ness risk reduction and adEligible to workion.
Evaluate and configure governance tooling; define integration patterns with data platforms ETL/ELT BI ticketing CI/CD and cloud services.
Partner with data architecture engineering platform security privacy risk and business teams to embed governance controls within delivery lifecycle and DataOps practices.
Lead workshops architecture/design reviews backlog prioritization implementation governance testing release readiness and production adEligible to workion.
Manage risks dependencies and issues; provide clear recommendations and escalate decisions requiring senior stakeholder intervention.
Mentor governance leads data stewards analysts and engineers; create reusable accelerators templates playbooks and knowledge assets.
Support solutioning proposals effort estimation client presentations and capability development for Data Governance and Data Management opportunities.
Generic Managerial Skills If any
Strong leadership and stakeholder-management skills across business technology risk compliance and data organizations.
Excellent written verbal and presentation skills for technical business and executive audiences.
Consultative problem-solving approach with the ability to simplify complex governance and technology topics.
Experience leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams and driving outcomes without direct authority.
Strong planning prioritization facilitation negotiation risk management and decision-making skills.
Disclaimer: Diverse Lynx LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants and employees are evaluated without discrimination based solely on their qualifications ability competence and performance. This email and its attachments may contain confidential or proprietary information and is intended only for the recipient(s). If you received this message in error please disregard it and notify the sender. If you no longer wish to receive our communications you may unsubscribe at any time.
Security Notice: Our official website is We do not operate or authorize any other websites representing Diverse Lynx LLC.
