Data Governance Lead

This role supports and advances the organizations enterprise data governance program ensuring data is wellâmanaged highâquality compliant and trusted across the business. The Senior Data Governance Lead plays a key role in facilitating governance decisionâmaking implementing governance frameworks and partnering with business and technology teams to drive adoption.
This position is ideal for a data governance professional who has strong handsâon experience and is looking to step into a broader leadership and influence role.

Key Responsibilities
Data Governance Enablement & Facilitation

Facilitate meetings of the Data Governance Council in partnership with senior data leadership
Prepare governance proposals recommendations and impact assessments for council review
Support prioritization of governance initiatives and help translate decisions into actionable policies
Drive governance adoption through collaboration influence and education

Governance Framework Implementation

Implement and evolve the enterprise data governance framework aligned to DAMA DMBOK principles
Develop data policies and standards related to data quality access retention classification and lineage
Define and support data ownership and stewardship models across priority data domains
Create practical governance playbooks procedures and training materials

Metadata Lineage & Platform Alignment

Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to implement metadata management practices
Support documentation and visibility of data lineage across modern data platforms (Databricks Kafka cloud databases)
Collaborate on governance of streaming and eventâdriven data pipelines

Compliance & Continuous Improvement

Partner with Legal Risk and Compliance teams to align governance practices with regulatory requirements
Participate in governance maturity assessments and contribute to roadmap development
Identify process improvements and scaling opportunities as the governance program matures

Qualifications
Required

57 years of experience in data management analytics or data engineering with meaningful exposure to data governance
Handsâon experience contributing to data governance initiatives councils or stewardship programs
Familiarity with modern data platforms (Databricks Kafka cloudânative databases)
Working knowledge of metadata management data catalogs and data lineage concepts
Strong facilitation communication and stakeholder management skills
Bachelors degree in a related field

Preferred

DAMA CDMP or similar certification
Experience in fintech payments or regulated industries
Exposure to Open Metadata or similar tools
Experience governing data in streaming or eventâdriven architectures
Interest in career progression toward people or program leadership roles