Sr Manager, Data Governance

Primary Responsibility :

The Senior Manager, Data Governance serves as a point of escalation for governance, data quality and protection issues and will work closely with Business and Functional area leadership to improve the quality and value of core data assets, respond to regulatory protection requirements as well as support the strategic requirements of the department.

The Senior Manager, Data Governance will lead and manage all organization-wide data governance activities and will have responsibility for managing and improving the quality in processes surrounding the protection of sensitive data and information assets.

The position will focus on establishing and ensuring adherence to an enterprise data governance framework for data policies, standards, and practices, at the business departmental levels to include key functional areas of critical importance, to achieve the required standard of excellence as it pertains to risk management, compliance, and data discovery and protection in order to meet the overall needs within the organization.

What You'll Do :

• Establish and govern an enterprise data governance implementation roadmap including strategic priorities for development of information-based capabilities

• Roll out an enterprise-wide data governance framework, with a focus on improvement of data quality and the protection of sensitive data through modifications to organization behavior policies and standards, principles, governance metrics, processes, related tools, and data architecture

• Define roles and responsibilities related to data governance and ensure clear accountability for stewardship of the company's principal information assets

• Serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology to ensure that data related business requirements for protecting sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated, and well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning

• Develop & maintain inventory of the enterprise information maps, including authoritative systems, owners

• Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards, data protection standards and adoption requirements across the enterprise

• Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements

• Lead Senior Management, comprising resources from the Business and Functional areas and IT business and operations functions, to achieve their objectives; resolve issues escalated from Business and Functional areas data governance representatives

What Experience and Education You Need :

• Bachelors Computer Science, MIS, or Information Management or equivalent work experience

• Minimum 10 years of experience in a major services organization, with large-scale data or project management and oversight experience.

Minimum of 5 years (of the 10) in a major organization.

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