The Data Governance Lead is responsible for all aspects of defining and operating the data governance policies supporting the multiple data domains.
This person will manage all organization wide data governance activities and will have responsibility for improving the quality and managing the protection of sensitive data and information assets. The position will focus on establishing and ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework for data policies, standards, and practices, both at the department and Business and Functional areas level, to achieve the required level of consistency, quality, and protection to meet overall business needs.
The Data Governance lead serves as a point of escalation for governance, data quality and protection issues and will work closely with Business and Functional area leadership to improve the quality and value of core data assets, respond to regulatory protection requirements as well as support the strategic requirements of the department.
Responsibilities:
Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of information based capabilities.
Roll out an enterprise wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organization behavior policies and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools and data architecture.
Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company's principal information assets.
Serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology to ensure that data related business requirements for protecting sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated and well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning.
Develop and maintain inventory of the enterprise information maps, including authoritative systems, owners, Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise.
Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements.
Lead team to achieve their objectives/resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas data governance representatives.
Coordinate to eliminate data source redundancy and streamline the expense related to those services.
The candidate should exhibit the following behavioral traits:
Internally and externally recognized subject matter expert that influence the way things are done
Highest personal and professional integrity and strong work ethics
Ability to articulate vision of transformation efforts and a sense of mission
Willingness to take change and provide direction
Results orientation, willingness to commit to a direction and drive operations to completion
Demonstrated ability to manage adversity and challenging situations
Experience with Relationship Management
� Ability to develop cooperative and constructive working relationships
� Ability to handle complaints, settle disputes and resolve conflicts and negotiate with others
� Collaborative team player orientation towards work relationships, strong culture awareness
Project Oversight and Decision-ing
� Ability to break down complex problems and projects into manageable goals
� Ability to get to the heart of the problem and make sound and timely decisions to resolve problems
� Effectiveness in building trust, respect and cooperation among teams
Minimum Qualifications
Master's in computer science, MIS, Information Management, or Data Science
Minimum of 10 years of experience in:
Preferred Qualifications
Experience demonstrating consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies, including communication, culture change and performance measurement system design
Experience managing senior relationships across all the Business and Functional areas
Experience developing skills in priority setting and alignment of project priorities with Departmental strategy
JobType
Hybrid
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