Software Engineer Mgr - Data Governance

JOB ROLE

This position incubates and establishes a leading-edge global Data Governance function to support CBRE business segments, corporate functions and the Digital & Technology stakeholders. The responsibility includes

• Liaise directly with CBRE clients and account teams to provide strategic direction on implementation of data governance programs, best practices, adoption of standards, mast data management, and data quality improvement.

• Design, implement, and support adoption strategies for CBRE account teams to leverage leading edge data governance tools and technologies.

• Collaborate with and manage highly performing data governance and data management professionals that support occupier clients and CBRE account teams.

• Provide technical support on data strategy execution in the adoption of CBRE’s data products including enterprise data platform that provides game-changing analytics in the CRE industry.

• Serve as the data governance champion of strategic data products and supporting metadata and reference data.

• Implement and support data ownership and stewardship programs for stakeholders across the business to ensure that account teams adopt improved data governance and management practices.
  

What You’ll Do:

• Participate in the strategy, planning, and execution for Enterprise Data Governance at CBRE, focusing on Building Operations & Experience (BOE) business segment. Ensure the company has urgency, sensitivity and thought leadership for competitive capabilities around data.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in a large, complex, global organization, including the ability to effectively work and communicate across organizational lines. Ensure business stakeholder understanding, alignment and commitment to the objectives of the data governance and management program(s). Be the champion and evangelist for data, the business value, and the potential innovations. Be the trusted advisor to senior leadership and peers.
• Perform data profiling and data discovery for client consulting and new or existing account teams.
• Implement data catalog tools and support best practices across account teams.
• Demonstrated experience in building relationships and leading high-performing teams with top talents around the world.
• Collaborate with partners across business segments/ business lines, regions and accounts to develop consistent data governance capabilities at all levels, influencing decisions relating to policy, practices, supporting technology, and talent development.
• Establish leading data management practices and shared services relating to data quality, data provisioning, metadata, lineage, reference data, issue management and change management.
• Implement data governance as commodity services that could be leveraged by various clients in different industries. Understand clients’ appetite and risk culture in day-to-day support activities and decision-making.
• Establish account team data governance programs. Define data domains and implement business oversight via essential data governance organizations and RACI (i.e. central data governance function, Data Ownership and Stewardship Program, etc.). Establish data standards, policies and controls. Design and implement the framework, including associated processes, necessary to sustain a data control environment. Monitoring compliance with data policies and standards
• Establish account team and cross-account data quality framework necessary to enable data quality reporting, issue identification, remediation and tracking, ultimately ensuring trust and confidence in data across domains.
• Guide the client accounts to adopt the strategic data products including existing account migrations and new account transitions. Manage data to support CBRE and its clients’ business intelligence and scale appropriately with business growth.
• Experience in leading and driving leading-edge data innovation initiatives including big data, cloud computing, IoT, data virtualization and federation, etc., is a plus.
• Create and implement strategic approaches, plans, timelines, preparation of business cases to ensure expedited handling of client data protection, and other data compliance and security requirements.
• Develop and implement metrics needed to monitor/ report on data governance and data management progress
• Develop communication approaches and change management strategies; determines presentation focus and emphasis and prepares board-level presentations.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Need:

• Utilizes an entrepreneurial approach and develops innovative solutions.
• Ability to write business cases, process maps, presentation materials and articles using distinctive style.
• Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations on complex topics across various levels of leadership
• Expert level analytical and quantitative skills with proven experience in developing strategic solutions for a growing matrix-based multi-industry sales environment.
• Ability to use strong conceptual and analytical skills to generate insights and recommendations.
• Demonstrated information management and quantitative skills, including working knowledge of IT infrastructure, various technologies/ platforms, and aligned vendor solutions with enterprise strategic priorities.
• Experience managing small to mid-size teams and delivering results.
• Thorough knowledge of cutting-edge data management tools, industry advances, etc.
• Superior project management/ consulting and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to facilitate complex, mission critical projects and to develop, participate in and guide multi-disciplinary work teams. Manage task timelines and deliverable schedules and share concerns about deliverables, timelines, and issues with Data Governance services or deliverables.
• Superior ability to manage, manipulate and analyze raw data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations using technology. Articulate the issues and resolutions via business-friendly communications. Serve as primary day-to-day contact for regional data management issues.
• Advanced understanding of data quality management. Knowledge of data governance and how it impacts business processes.
• Knowledge of master data management in a global environment, including data lifecycle and maintenance processes.
• Skills in MS Visio, Word and PowerPoint is a plus.
• Experience with reference data management tools at CBRE, including Collibra, MS Excel, SQL query, etc., is a plus.
• Software development lifecycle knowledge, with background in agile philosophies is a plus.
• Understanding of data modeling concepts a plus.