Data Governance Specialist

Leads enterprise data governance initiatives by translating approved strategy into practical standards, processes, stewardship activities, and measurable outcomes. Partners with business owners and technical teams to clarify data ownership, improve governance practices, support adoption, and align governance decisions with enterprise data and AI priorities.

Responsibilities

• Engage data owners, stewards, subject matter experts, and executives to advance governance initiatives.
• Identify data ownership gaps, inconsistent definitions, quality concerns, duplicated effort, and reconciliation needs.
• Facilitate assignment of data owners and stewards, and maintain ownership and escalation records.
• Lead discussions about systems of record, source of truth, data sharing, survivorship, and hierarchies; document recommendations.
• Develop and maintain governance processes, policies, standards, definitions, intake practices, and issue-management processes.
• Deliver adoption workshops and learning resources, monitor participation, and report initiative progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.

Required Skills

• Data governance implementation
• Data management
• Information management
• Business transformation
• Data stewardship
• Data quality management
• Data catalog and master data concepts
• Governance policy and standards development
• Requirements analysis
• Workshop facilitation