Data Governance Lead

As a Data Governance Lead, your role will involve driving enterprise-wide data governance, architecture, and management initiatives. You will play a crucial part in establishing data standards, ensuring data quality, and enabling secure, compliant, and value-driven data usage across the organization. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead the implementation of data governance frameworks, policies, and standards. - Define and manage data ownership, stewardship roles, and accountability structures. - Ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR, SOX etc). - Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models. - Collaborate with business and technical teams to ensure models align with business needs. - Promote standardization and reuse of data assets across platforms. - Lead data migration strategies for legacy systems and cloud platforms. - Ensure data integrity, lineage, and quality during migrations. - Work with ETL and integration teams to streamline data flows. - Partner with BI teams to ensure data is structured for effective visualization. - Support dashboard and reporting initiatives with clean, well-governed data. - Promote self-service analytics through governed data catalogs. - Collaborate with InfoSec to implement data protection controls. - Ensure sensitive data is classified, encrypted, and accessed securely. - Monitor and audit data access and usage patterns. - Implement metadata management tools and practices. - Maintain data lineage documentation to support traceability and impact analysis. - Act as a liaison between business units, IT, and data teams. - Educate stakeholders on data governance principles and best practices. - Drive cultural change toward data-driven decision-making. **Required Qualifications:** - 10+ years of experience in data management, with at least 3 years in a data governance or architecture leadership role. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. - Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities. - Experience in Agile project environments. - Experience in projects using Snowflake for data migration, data warehouse, and governance. - Strong understanding of DAMA-DMBOK principles. - Hands-on experience with data modeling tools (e.g., Erwin, PowerDesigner). - Experience with data governance platforms (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation). - Familiarity with AWS cloud platform. - Knowledge of data privacy regulations and security frameworks. In this role, certifications such as CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) are considered a plus.,