Key skills
Leadership
About this role
Role Overview
- Define and lead the USDI data governance strategy
- Design and implement a federated governance model
- Establish roles, responsibilities, and decision rights
- Drive alignment across business and technology to ensure clear ownership
- Own data governance policies, standards, and frameworks
- Ensure consistent adoption of data classification & privacy controls
- Partner with Risk, Legal, and Compliance to ensure alignment
- Establish a data quality framework with KPIs, controls, and monitoring
- Drive enterprise-wide data issue management lifecycle
- Define accountability model for data defects and control ownership
- Ensure capabilities for business glossary and definitions, metadata management, data lineage and traceability
- Stand up and lead Data Governance Councils / Working Groups
- Drive adoption of governance practices at the data product level
- Oversee governance tooling strategy
- Provide executive visibility into data quality health, governance maturity, risk exposure
- Lead cross-functional governance forums
- Influence senior leadership decision-making on data priorities
Requirements
- 12–15+ years in data governance, data management, or data strategy leadership
- Proven experience building enterprise-scale governance programs
- Deep expertise in data governance frameworks (DAMA, DCAM, etc.)
- Data quality, metadata, and lineage
- Regulatory and risk environments (ideally FS)
- Strong leadership across business and technology organizations
- Experience in domain-driven / data product operating models
- Minimum of eight years of related work experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Graduate degree preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible working arrangements
- Professional development