Manager, Data Governance

As a Manager of Data Governance at Curriculum Associates, your role is crucial in establishing, implementing, and scaling a data governance framework that drives real business impact as part of the Data & Insights Center of Excellence (CoE). You will be responsible for both hands-on execution and strategic leadership, ensuring that governance policies and processes are embedded within data operations across the company. Your success will be measured by the impact of governance on data usability, trust, and accessibility, directly improving decision-making and operational efficiency. **Key Responsibilities:** - Collaborate with stakeholders to develop and operationalize data governance policies, standards, processes, and best practices in alignment with business goals. - Implement data stewardship processes that integrate into agile workflows to support metadata management and data quality management, measurement, reporting, and remediation. - Establish a data stewardship framework, empowering teams to take ownership of data quality. - Engage with data governance council discussions, ensuring alignment across global teams. - Implement and maintain data governance tools (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Informatica, etc.). - Define and track success metrics that measure governance's impact on end users, including improved data accessibility, decision-making, and operational efficiency. - Manage workflows for data issue resolution, change management, and continuous improvement. - Manage and mentor data stewards, ensuring consistency in data governance practices across the organization. - Partner with data engineering to ensure governance policies are implemented in data pipelines and platforms. - Support data analytics & BI teams to ensure governed data is trusted, accessible, and actionable. **Qualifications Required:** - Proven track record of executing and scaling data governance programs in agile environments. - Strong expertise in data quality, metadata management, MDM, regulatory compliance, and best practices. - Ability to drive adoption of governance practices, measure impact, and lead change management initiatives. - Proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, ensuring governance priorities are aligned with business objectives. - Strong experience in documenting business requirements, business glossaries, data cataloging, data mapping, data quality rules management, and governance frameworks. - Demonstrated ability to identify business process and data management gaps and drive improvements. - Experience collaborating with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, and business teams in an agile setup, including participation in sprint planning and governance integration. - Ability to balance execution and leadership responsibilities, adapting to competing priorities while maintaining focus on delivering results. Join Curriculum Associates as a Manager of Data Governance if you have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field such as Business Administration, Computer Science, or Data Analytics, along with 10+ years of experience in data management or enterprise data teams. Additionally, you should have 7+ years of experience with data governance, data management, or enterprise data strategy, 5+ years of experience leading cross-functional collaboration, and communicating with stakeholders across multiple business lines. Industry certifications such as CDMP/ DAMA DMBOK or equivalent data governance certification are preferred.,