About this role
<p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">We are seeking an experienced Lead Data Governance Manager with over 15 years of hands-on expertise in Data Governance, covering both cloud environments (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services) and on-premises enterprise platforms. He or She will design, build, and operationalize comprehensive governance programs spanning on-prem and cloud, ensuring a unified and robust data governance strategy across all environments.</span></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Key Responsibilities</span></strong></p> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Design, implement, and drive enterprise-wide data governance programs across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring regulatory compliance, data quality, and security.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Develop and maintain policies, standards, and operating models for data ownership, classification, access control, retention, and stewardship applicable to both on-prem and cloud.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Design with the Architect to automate solutions for metadata management, data lineage, cataloging, data quality, and data privacy using native on-prem, GCP, and AWS services.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, security, and compliance teams to embed governance controls across all data pipelines and platforms.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Lead MDM (Master Data Management), data catalog, DLP (Data Loss Prevention), and compliance projects for both on-prem and cloud systems, leveraging native and third-party tools.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Establish governance KPIs, reporting dashboards, and continuous improvement processes for measuring program effectiveness across environments.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Advise on data platform and integration strategies, technology evaluations, and governance tool selection.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Lead Data Governance team members, fostering continuous skill and knowledge development through day-to-day mentorship and guidance.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Deliver Training to data engineers and data scientists on data governance principles and their Strategic importance.</span></li> </ol> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"> </span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Required Skills and Experience</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%"><br><br></span></p> <ol style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">15+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or Data Architecture in large-scale enterprise environments with significant on-prem and cloud footprints.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Expert hands-on knowledge of on-prem data technologies (RDBMS, data warehouses, ETL tools, MDM platforms, metadata management, and DLP solutions) alongside Google Cloud (BigQuery, Dataproc, Data Catalog, DLP, IAM, Security Command Center, etc.) and AWS (S3, Glue, Lake Formation, CloudTrail, AWS DMS, Macie, IAM, etc.).</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Proven experience integrating and governing data across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid architectures.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Deep understanding of industry regulations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) and privacy-by-design principles across all technology stacks.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Experience implementing data classification, lineage, and cataloging solutions for distributed, on-prem, and multi-cloud platforms.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Familiarity with data quality, master/reference data management, batch/streaming data integration, and cloud/on-prem API integrations.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Ability to communicate complex governance concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including C-level executives.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Strong project management, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving skills.<br>Preferred Qualifications</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Cloud and data management certifications (Google Professional Data Engineer, AWS Certified Data Analytics, AWS Security, on-prem MDM or data warehousing).</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Experience leading hybrid and regulated enterprise data governance transformations.</span></li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 10.0pt 0.0px;line-height:115%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%">Prior experience implementing governance solutions in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, pharma, government, etc.).<br><br></span></li> </ol>