Senior Director Data Strategy & Governance

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide guidance around overall IT Governance, best practices/templates and providing training/mentoring to project teams.
- Keep Senior Leadership informed of significant activities, project status and financial information.
- Review and maintain ITGCs and collaborate with relevant stakeholders (Internal Audit, External Audit, Compliance and the CISO) to ensure compliance with SOX and applicable regulations.
- Act as primary liaison to internal and external auditors and the CISO for a variety of IT audits and special reviews.
- In coordination with the PMO and the SDM, generate and monitor various KPIs, metrics, reports, financial information and dashboards.
- In coordination with the CISO and Risk and Quality groups, help build an efficient and effective GRC platform.
- Design and create training materials including written instructions, tip sheets, video tutorials, and interactive asynchronous online courses to help project managers and other technical staff perform their duties.
- Lead efforts to update, streamline and simplify the overall IT policy framework.

Job-Specific Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Own Tier 1 (Strategy) and Tier 2 (Governance): Develop and maintain the INSIGHTS framework, 5-year roadmap, and pillar-aligned value propositions.

- Lead Enterprise Data Governance Council formation with numerous stakeholders, quarterly operations, policy development, and stewardship model.

- Lead the Data Ethics Subcommittee and ensure ethical, bias-mitigated data use across all initiatives.

- Drive Talent Migration enablement: Build and deliver data literacy programs, Communities of Practice, and culture-change initiatives targeting 100% literacy by 2030.

- Map enterprise data strategy to Key Business Questions (KBQs) from CEO, CFO, segment GMs, and Board; re-bin and prioritize data needs.

- Oversee enterprise data ethics, compliance mapping (HIPAA 2025, FedRAMP, GDPR, CUI), and alignment with the Maximus Global Ontology & Data Model.

- Partner closely with the parallel Senior Directors (Data Management & Technology, Data Transformation & Adoption) to ensure governance policies are enforceable at scale.

- Represent data strategy in executive forums, board updates, and external stakeholder engagements.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
- 12+ years of related experience, with at least 5 years in management.
- Proven track record of governance, project managing systems design and implementation.
- Proficient at understanding existing technology solutions, processes, requirements, and overall business models within minimal time.
- Proven record of IT and process detailed documentation, reference materials, and managed technical documentation and IT training materials.
- Experience in serving as a specialist on complex technical and business matters.
- Experience as an expert in the field, using professional concepts in developing res...