Data Governance Director

Job Overview: 

This role is responsible for development and implementation of data governance principals, policies and processes. It is heading the data governance council and ensure the group wide adherence to all set standards. Intensive collaboration and alignment with other group functions and tenant organizations to ensure the above is a pivotal element. 

Job Scope: 

• Ensure the operational data governance policies in development of data management initiatives by supervising the Data Steward(s)
• Serve as a liaison between Business and Functional areas and technology leadership teams to ensure that data related business requirements for protecting both personal and sensitive data are clearly defined, communicated, well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning. While ensuring a conflict of interest does not occur. 
• Align with external compliance authorities to design the content of the data governance structures, and update the latest data governance rules 
• Provide legal advice and opinions on a range of complex data governance issues, including interpretation of agreement terms
• Educate data stewards and consumers on how to adopt data policies
• Coordinate the business and technical data owners within different business units as per data governance guidelines including defining the requirements, monitoring the progress, controlling related KPIs, creating tools such as Data Protection Impact Assessment and ensure data mapping is done by the data engineers etc.
• Partner with Data Engineering team to research and experiment with emerging Data Quality Profiling technologies and tools associated to data quality, metadata, data governance.
• Partner with IT teams on Data Governance considerations for third-party applications
• Take charge in key data governance negotiation and review progresses with legal
• Develop and manage a proactive data regulatory strategy
  • Define strategic data regulatory objectives and broad courses of action
  • Develop perspective of possible data regulatory evolution
  • Ensure independences requirements are not breached by organization involving task and duties assigned.
• Ensure implementation of the defined governance policies, processes, and guidelines across the business units and monitor/audit the compliance
• Works with DA business partners, data owners, and analytics and engineering teams to identify the critical business risks related to the raw and derived data to ensure use cases are within the data governance framework and instruct engineering teams to draft data process and flow(s) for review.
• Define Data Governance roles, accountability, and ownership and decision rights.
• Collaborate with Data Steward, Engineers and Architect(s) to ensure facilitation of consistent data quality control 
• Ensure data subject rights are protected and instruct/aid business to develop processes to match these rights. 
• Promote a culture of data protection compliance across all units of the organization
• Drive a clear agenda, communication, and value creation for the Data Governance Council.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or any similar field or equivalent work experience accepted.
• 5+ years of relevant experience within particular area of expertise
• 3+ years of leading roles in similar position
• Profound domain knowledge of critical data sets, priority use cases, and understanding of business processes
• Profound knowledge of how to define and implement data procedures and policies 
• Profound knowledge of data management principles and concepts
• Profound knowledge and expertise in industry leading data management practices
• Profound knowledge and experience in setting up and/or executing data governance in an organization
• Strong ability to break down complex problems and projects into manageable goals
• Strong ability to delegate duties and provide clear instructions
• Excellent communication and reporting skills