11610

Zohorecruit

Quebec

On-site

CAD 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Zohorecruit is seeking an Expert Data Governance Advisor in Canada to operationalize governance practices across the enterprise. The role focuses on data quality, protection, lifecycle and value creation, with change support to business units, IT teams and stewardship networks.

The ideal candidate has experience building or operationalizing a data governance program and can articulate governance concepts to business and technical stakeholders while leading transformation efforts.

Qualifications

  • Experience in data governance, data management, quality or protection, compliance, BI, or organizational transformation.
  • Contributed to implementing or operationalizing data governance practices, processes, frameworks, or models.
  • Understanding of governance roles (owners, delegates, stewards, IT).
  • Produced structuring deliverables (frameworks, reference documents, guides, procedures).
  • Ability to communicate, simplify and synthesize with business and technology stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Deploy governance practices across the organization and embed them in operations.
  • Document reference deliverables and governance frameworks for enterprise use.
  • Lead change management with business units, IT teams and stewardship networks.
  • Provide stakeholder alignment and influential leadership during transformation.

Skills

Data governance
Data management
Data quality
Data protection
Compliance
Business intelligence
Organizational transformation
Stakeholder communication
Multidisciplinary teamwork
Autonomy and discipline

Tools

DAMA-DMBOK
DCAM

Job description

Expert Data Governance Advisor- GC1691-09
  • Job Opening ID 11610
  • Country Canada
  • Number of Positions 1
  • Work Experience 7-10 Years
Job Description

Overview:

  • The client is looking for an advisor to help its datagovernance team move from intent to operations: its practices and frameworkspartly exist and now need to be deployed, documented and embedded across theorganization.
  • The role covers data quality, protection, value creation andlifecycle.
  • A large part of the mandate is about change support: helpingbusiness units, IT teams and the stewardship network take ownership of theowner, delegate and steward roles.
  • The qualifications accept several backgrounds (datamanagement, quality, compliance, business intelligence, organizationaltransformation), but concrete contribution to implementing governance practicesis what separates candidates.
  • The mandate is enterprise-wide, even though the team reportsto an EVP focused on strategy, customer experience and marketing.
  • Candidate sought : someone who has already helped build oroperationalize a data governance program (roles, frameworks, glossaries orcatalogs, quality) and has written its reference deliverables. They can explainthese concepts to both business and technical stakeholders and exerciseinfluential leadership in a transformation context. Experience in insurance,financial services or with Law 25 is the main differentiator among the assets.
Requirements

Required:

  • Experience in at least one of: data governance, management,quality or protection, compliance, business intelligence, organizationaltransformation
  • Contribution to implementing or operationalizing datagovernance practices, processes, frameworks or models
  • Understanding of governance roles (owners, delegates,stewards, IT teams)
  • Production of structuring deliverables (frameworks,reference documents, guides, presentations, procedures)
  • Communication, simplification and synthesis with businessand technology stakeholders
  • Project mode, multidisciplinary and evolving environment
  • Autonomy, rigour, judgment, collaboration, organization
  • Understanding of key governance components (frameworks,quality, privacy, lifecycle, information assets, business glossaries, datacatalogs, operating models)
  • Supporting business and IT teams in adopting practices,stakeholder management, influential leadership in transformation
  • Experience in a complex, regulated or financial corporateenvironment

Asset:

  • Knowledge of insurance, financial services, regulatorycompliance or Law 25 (described by the client as a "significantasset")
  • Knowledge of governance or data management frameworks(DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM or other recognized framework)
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