Enterprise Data Governance Program Manager

About the position

The Enterprise Data Governance Program Manager position requires a profound understanding of how data integrates into the organization's operations. The incumbent will be tasked with designing, implementing and ensuring adherence to a comprehensive data governance framework. Collaboration with business leadership, IT, compliance, legal and information security teams is essential. A proactive approach to instilling a data-driven culture will be key to driving organizational success. Successful candidates will demonstrate expertise in data management, privacy, security and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Works with leadership to identify key partners, roles and data needs within the business.
• Creates or refines a Data Governance Charter and defines an engagement model for how stakeholders should interact with the catalog and the Data Governance and Quality group.
• Works with data stewards and data owners for onboarding and training on data governance platforms, concepts and processes.
• Organizes data catalog, maps data lineage and improves data quality.
• Classifies data based on its sensitivity, importance and regulatory requirements ensuring compliance and accountability.
• Works with manager and leadership to develop and maintain a data governance scorecard and report key performance indicators.
• Aligns with data leadership to define or refine effectiveness of a Data Governance Council and Executive Council.
• Partners with data leadership to define a data element lifecycle and certification process.
• Works with stakeholders and working groups to develop process maps, project plans and identify opportunities for efficiencies and improvement.
• Proactively identifies program risks and deploy mitigation strategies.
• Shares insights, results and recommendations in a comprehensible manner through both written presentations/reports and interactions with teams to drive best practices and process improvement in organization-wide data governance.
• Performs other related duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• BA or BS degree.
• 5 years of job-related experience.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented.
• Excellent management skills.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Ability to influence peers and subordinates to modify behaviors and support the implementation and adoption of data governance and metadata strategy.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Data Governance Tools is desired but not required.