Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Senior Manager, Data Management

Ball Aerospace & Technologies • $115K — $164K *
Westminster, CO 80031In-Person
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
3 weeks ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Analytics, Computer Science, or Business Administration required; Master’s degree preferred
  • 8+ years of data management, governance, or MDM experience in large enterprises
  • 3+ years of leadership experience with governing, quality, or MDM outcomes
  • Experience with enterprise-scale data governance frameworks and stewardship models
  • Hands-on MDM platform experience, especially in SAP S/4HANA; familiarity with JD Edwards a plus
  • Knowledge of data classification frameworks and access policy design
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, particularly in manufacturing or industrial sectors

Responsibilities

  • Lead enterprise Data Management functions including MDM, Data Quality, and Data Governance
  • Define and operate the data stewardship and ownership model for critical data domains
  • Maintain up-to-date business glossary and enterprise data definitions
  • Facilitate governance forums to resolve data-related disputes and issues
  • Oversee master data workflows in systems like SAP S/4HANA and JD Edwards
  • Establish and maintain data quality rules and acceptance criteria
  • Produce and publish enterprise data quality scorecards and trend reports

Benefits

  • Hybrid work environment with regular in-person engagement
  • Eligibility for annual incentive compensation plan
  • Access to comprehensive benefits structure through the company's Total Rewards page
  • Opportunity to work within a product-based data operating model
  • Legal compliance support regarding employment information in application documents
Full Job Description
Primary Purpose of this Position:

The Senior Manager, Data Management leads the enterprise Data Management function encompassing Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality, and Data Governance operations. This role is the enterprise accountability layer for data trust - owning the stewardship model, governance controls, data quality standards, and data security policy design that ensure enterprise data is accurate, defined, classified, and reliably governed.

Essential Responsible Areas:
  • Data Governance COE:
    • Define and operate the enterprise data stewardship and ownership model - ensuring every critical data domain has a named business owner and active steward
    • Maintain the business glossary, enterprise data definitions, and ownership registry as living, governed artifacts - not static documentation
    • Run governance forums, decision rights frameworks, and escalation paths - resolving data definition disputes, ownership conflicts, and cross-domain data issues
    • Own data classification taxonomy and access policy design - defining RBAC policy tiers aligned to data sensitivity and regulatory requirements (policy design only; technical implementation owned by Data Platforms)
    • Own business metadata completeness and definition quality in the enterprise catalog (Microsoft Purview / Unity Catalog), ensuring Gold-layer assets are documented to enterprise standards
    • Serve as the policy interface to enterprise InfoSec for compliance validation, audit readiness, and regulatory data controls - operating as the data-side partner in incident response and access reviews
  • Master Data Operations:
    • Oversee master and reference data workflows across SAP S/4HANA and JD Edwards - governing the creation, change, and maintenance processes for Customer, Product, Supplier, Site, and Cost Center master data
    • Accountable for accuracy and timeliness of master data - owning MDM SLAs as measurable commitments, not targets
    • Own preventive controls at data creation points - ensuring governance rules are embedded in the data request and approval workflow before bad data enters the system
    • Drive reduction of downstream rework caused by MDM defects - quantifying the operational and financial impact of master data failures and reporting improvement to the CDO and business leaders
    • Manage MDM release cycles, change control, and SLAs - coordinating MDM updates across SAP and JDE in alignment with ERP release schedules and Data Architecture standards
  • Data Quality:
    • Define and own enterprise data quality rules and acceptance criteria - establishing the quality standards that analytics products and downstream systems must meet before data is certified for use
    • Produce enterprise DQ scorecards and trend reporting - publishing domain-level quality scores, issue aging, and improvement trajectories to the CDO and business data owners on a recurring cadence
    • Operate systemic escalation for recurring quality issues - routing persistent DQ failures to data owners, engineering teams, or MDM operations with clear accountability and resolution timelines
    • Accountable for measurable improvement in critical data domains - quality improvement targets are defined at the start of each year and tracked as a performance commitment


What we are looking for:
  • Bachelor's degree required in Information Systems, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
  • Master’s degree in a quantitative or information management discipline preferred.
  • 8+ years in data management, data governance, or MDM roles within large enterprise environments
  • 3+ years leading teams - direct or matrixed - with accountability for governance, quality, or MDM outcomes
  • Experience operating data governance frameworks at enterprise scale: stewardship models, ownership registries, governance forums, and escalation processes
  • Hands-on experience with MDM platforms and ERP master data processes - SAP S/4HANA strongly preferred; JD Edwards a differentiator
  • Familiarity with data quality tooling, scorecard development, and DQ rule design across critical data domains
  • Experience defining data classification frameworks and access policy design (RBAC policy, not technical implementation)
  • Strong stakeholder management across business and IT - able to drive accountability without direct authority
  • Manufacturing or industrial sector experience - familiarity with Customer, Product, Supplier, and Site master data complexity
  • Experience with Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, or equivalent metadata and catalog platforms
  • DMBOK or CDMP certification - signals structured data management methodology
  • Experience supporting Finance, Supply Chain, or Commercial data domains at an enterprise level
  • Background operating in a product-based or federated data operating model - able to work within a CDO org with defined role boundaries


Required Knowledge Areas:
  • Policy-Layer Leadership - Operates effectively at the governance and standards layer without owning technical enforcement; understands where their authority ends and platform ownership begins
  • Accountability Architecture - Skilled at building accountability frameworks and stewardship models that drive behavior through ownership and incentive, not bureaucracy
  • Governance Facilitation - Effective at running governance forums, decision rights processes, and escalation paths that resolve disputes and produce durable decisions
  • Executive Communication - Translates data governance concepts, quality metrics, and policy decisions into business value language for CIO, CFO, and functional leader audiences
  • Structural Ambiguity Tolerance - Comfortable establishing governance structure in maturing organizations; can operate without perfect tooling or complete data inventories while building toward the target state


Compensation & Benefits:
  • Expected Hiring Salary Range: $115,000 - $164,300 (Salary to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
  • This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
  • Please visit our "Total Rewards" page to learn more about Ball's comprehensive benefits structure.
  • Hybrid On-Site Work Environment: Based in Colorado, this position requires regular in-person engagement by working on-site for three (3) or more work days per work week (with core collaboration days of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). [Travel and local commute between Ball locations and other possible non-Ball locations may be required.]


When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role.

Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
  • Under Colorado, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania law, you have the right to exclude or redact age-related details-such as your date of birth, school attendance dates, or graduation dates-from your resume, cover letter, CV, or other supporting documents (e.g., transcripts, certificates).
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visa, now or in the future, for this job opening.


* This position will be posted internally for a minimum of 5 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

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About Ball Aerospace & Technologies

Ball Corporation is a provider of metal packaging for beverages, foods and household products, and of aerospace and other technologies and services to commercial and governmental customers. Founded in 1880, the company employs more than 15,000 people in more than 90 locations worldwide. Ball Corporation stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol BLL.

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Size
24,300 employees
Market Cap
$16.1 billion
Industry
Aerospace & Defense
Net Income
$585 million
Founded
1980
5 Year Trend
+8.8%
Revenue
$11.7 billion
NASDAQ
BLL
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