Core Responsibilities:- Lead the enterprise data governance strategy and operating model to ensure data is trusted, secure, compliant, and usable across the organization.
- Define, implement, and continuously enhance enterprise data governance policies, standards, controls, and best practices.
- Establish and chair enterprise data governance councils, domain forums, and decision-making bodies to resolve data issues and align priorities.
- Design and operationalize a domain-based data ownership and stewardship model with clear accountability across business and technology teams.
- Define critical data elements, business glossaries, canonical definitions, and data standards to improve consistency across domains and systems.
- Establish enterprise data quality standards, metrics, thresholds, and remediation processes to improve accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
- Oversee metadata management, data cataloging, lineage, and traceability capabilities to improve transparency and discoverability of enterprise data assets.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, Information Security, Risk, and Technology teams to align governance with privacy, security, and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee data risk monitoring, issue escalation, control effectiveness, and remediation activities, including support for audits and regulatory reviews as needed.
- Embed governance practices into day-to-day business processes, analytics delivery, and digital transformation programs.
- Partner with analytics and AI leaders to ensure enterprise data is discoverable, reliable, compliant, and AI-ready for training, testing, and production use cases.
- Define governance expectations for AI-related data, including lineage, quality, explainability, and responsible use considerations.
- Build a culture of data ownership, stewardship, literacy, and accountability through training, communications, and stakeholder engagement.
- Establish and report governance KPIs/KRIs, progress, risks, and outcomes to senior leadership and governance committees.
Qualifications:- 8+ years of experience in data governance, data management, data quality, or data strategy, including experience leading enterprise-scale programs.
- Strong expertise in data governance frameworks, stewardship, metadata, lineage, data quality, and modern/cloud data platforms; familiarity with governance tooling is preferred.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders and drive cross-functional change across business, technology, risk, compliance, and analytics functions.
Preferences:- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
- Understanding of risk governance, 1LoD/2LoD, etc...
- Familiarity with Collibra or similar data catalogue tools
Special FactorsSponsorshipVanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
