Key responsibilities

• Define, understand, and implement data governance strategies across the organization in support of business and data initiatives.
• Analyze inputs from management on existing data issues, governance practices to understand current practices and pain areas and provide perspective to mitigate issues raised.
• Assess, design, and implement improvements in policies and processes related to communication/coordination of organization data governance initiatives, such as data quality, access management, etc. and across data governance categories, including access, lineage, quality, security, change management, environment, and monetization.
• Establish and maintain clearly defined data roles and responsibilities at the strategic and operational levels with a focus on decision-making and issue resolution responsibilities.
• Effectively communicate relevant project information, including status reports from project work streams, to senior management and the project team.
• Oversee and collaborate on defining and designing various governance templates, SLAs, and benchmarks on policies, including communications, data exchanges, retention, escalation timelines, quality, etc.
• Lead in establishing a robust data architecture to accommodate evolving regulatory requirements flexible enough to support a wide range of future growth initiatives.
• Adhere to the governance calendar and ensure that all governance meetings and agendas are met on stipulated timelines.
• Ensure issue management, tracking, and resolution of escalations raised by business users related to access, catalog, quality, and traceability.
• Measure and track the ROI on data initiatives and projects.
• Identify best practices and global governance trends across the industry and share insights with the team and the Data Management Committee.