Data Governance Manager

Actively working on these objectives at a high level of autonomy
• Establishing Data Governance Frameworks
• Ensuring Data Quality
• Compliance with Regulations
• Promoting Data Literacy
• Facilitating Collaboration Across Departments
• Risk Management
• Enhancing Data Accessibility and Usability

Main responsibilities 

• Coordinates with operational and reporting data stewards to create data controls, identify measurement definitions, and manage dashboard uses.
• Collaborates with the Data Stewards, data custodians and report developers to ensure consistent use of data definitions, authorized data sources, and calculations. Additionally, enlists business unit support to take ownership and responsibility for consistent definitions and quality of their data.
• Collaborates with the Data Stewards, Architecture, and Information Technology to prioritize and resolve data sourcing, business rules, data aggregation, data distribution, and data consumption.
• Ensures operational data stewards define and maintain data definitions, descriptions, set values, quality rules, and calculations in the business glossary.
• Establishes and maintains programs to monitor and measure data governance adoption and achievements.
• Manage documentation as well as remediation of key data issues
• Documents and maintain data governance activities, maintain logs, and records issues and corresponding resolutions.
• Document various governance roles and responsibilities then educate data stewards, data owners and data custodians
• Maintains enterprise data policy for governing data and actively measures compliance to the data policy for critical data and reports.
• Maintains ongoing communication with data stewards to ensure critical data issues are communicated timely for remediation.
• Responsible for maintaining an accurate enterprise critical report library with associated reporting metadata.
• Produce data governance dashboards on a recurring basis
• Serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology to ensure that data-related business requirements are clearly defined, communicated, and well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

1. Educational level
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience required

2. Knowledge & Experiences
• Over 5 years experience in Data/System auditing/governance.
• Familiarity with data-related regulations and standards 
• Having experience in creating and implementing data governance frameworks and policies

3. Technical Skills
• Ability to write various documents such as functional requirements.
• Good understanding of databases and data structures.
• Understanding of privacy laws and regulations.
• Basic level proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Project, and Outlook.

4. Soft Skills
• Working effectively with IT, business teams, and other stakeholders to define and maintain data standards
• Strong ability to communicate complex data governance concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong leadership skills to manage and mentor a team of data governance specialists, fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment