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Senior Manager Of Data Governance

In our scaled Data Mesh environment, Data and AI Governance is the essential bridge between agility and accountability. As a Senior Manager of Data Governance, you will oversee data stewardship councils aligned to data domains, to ensure their data products are secure, compliant, and high-quality.

You will lead key data governance operations; design the procedures that determine how we assess high-risk data and AI use cases, assure data quality and identify governance findings that protect the enterprise.

What You'll Do

Enhance & Scale the Stewardship Framework: The foundation is built; now we need the architect to scale it. You will:

• Drive Council Excellence: Lead one of two "Council Clusters," aligning with a specific group of large-scale data domains to drive federated decision-making.
• Adoption & Impact: Move beyond "having a framework" to measuring its efficacy. You will track how stewardship directly improves data trust and usability across the mesh.
• Data Catalog Mastery: Optimize our data catalog instance to ensure it serves as the operational hub for your Council Cluster's metadata and lineage.

Governance Operations & Risk Engineering: You will be the primary architect of our "High-Risk" intake engine. You will:

• Standardize Risk Assessment: Establish the SOPs for the intake and assessment of complex or high-risk data use cases.
• Design the Risk Questionnaire: Create and iterate on a diagnostic tool that assigns a "Risk Score" to new projects, determining the depth of governance review required.
• The Gatekeeper Function: Execute a risk-based approach to reviews, issuing formal governance findings or "blocking" deployments that do not meet our security or quality thresholds.

Performance, Metrics & AI Governance: You will own the "Scorecard" for your area of influence. You will:

• Program Ownership: Directly own and report on a specific subset of KPIs related to your Stewardship and Risk programs (e.g., Risk Remediation Velocity, Steward Engagement).
• Portfolio Metrics Management: Manage the process of gathering and synthesizing the broader Data and AI Governance portfolio of metrics.
• Audit & Accountability: Perform periodic "look-backs" to ensure data owners remain actively comply with records and information management policies.

Team Management

• Lead Governance Analysts: Manage a team focused on both the long-term health of the Alation catalog and the day-to-day pressure of risk assessments.
• Upskill & Mentor: Coach your team on the nuances of governance and the technical skills required to audit complex data products.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 7+ years in Data Governance, Metadata Management, Data Quality or Data Risk, preferably in a Fortune 100 or highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated ability to implement significant change projects, successfully integrating new governance practices into existing organizational structures.
• Practical experience in building and managing comprehensive project and program plans, including defining scope, objectives, and resource requirements.
• A track record of establishing a strong foundation for data quality and governance, treating data as a valuable organizational product.