Data Governance Lead

Job Description

Join our team and establish the practical governance operating model required for trusted master data, including ownership, stewardship, attribute authority, survivorship governance, decision forums, and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

• Define governance operating model, roles and decision rights. Facilitate Data Owner and Steward nomination/onboarding.
• Create and maintain attribute-authority and data-ownership registers.
• Define stewardship role definitions, stewardship workflow, exception categories, SLAs and escalation.
• Coordinate business glossary and critical-data-element definitions.
• Define DQ KPIs and governance reporting with DQ/BI teams.
• Ensure survivorship and matching decisions have business ownership.
• Run governance forums and track decisions/actions.
• Monitors governance KPI trends generally and reports on them fortnightly alongside source data quality trends
• Support change management and progressive business adoption.

Must-Have Experience & Skills

• 5+ years data governance/MDM governance experience.
• Strong knowledge of Data Owner/Steward operating models.
• Experience in Exception-based stewardship workflow design and configuration.
• Survivorship rule documentation and version control experience
• Attribute authority, DQ governance and decision-management experience.
• Experience in Data quality KPI framework design, integrated into existing business reporting cycles
• Strong facilitation and executive/business communication.
• Ability to turn governance principles into workable operational processes

Preferred/Nice-to-Have

• Profisee stewardship exposure.
• Purview/catalog experience.
• Global/regional governance programme experience

Employment Details

• Employment Type: Part Time (2 Years Contract)
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid
• Working Days: Monday to Friday
• Working Hours: 4 Hours