AltaGas - Specialist, AI & Data Governance

Oil Authority; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AltaGas is seeking a Senior Specialist, AI & Data Governance to mature how we govern and leverage data across the enterprise. This hands-on, business-facing role turns governance into practical ways of working, partnering with business and technical teams to enable trustworthy data for analytics and responsible AI.

You will own data governance, lead councils, onboard data owners, define quality rules, build dashboards, support MDM, and ensure governance is embedded in data products and AI use

Qualifications

• Hands-on data governance, data quality, and analytics governance experience.
• Experience implementing governance forums, stewardship, ownership, and issue management.
• Ability to translate data concepts into business language and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation of data governance and data quality practices with clear ownership.
• Lead governance councils and working groups, guiding decisions and progress.
• Onboard data owners and data stewards, clarifying responsibilities and decision rights.
• Partner with business and technical teams to define data quality rules and controls.
• Develop dashboards and scorecards showing data quality, ownership, and impact.
• Support MDM by defining ownership and remediation processes across data domains.
• Embed governance into data products, dashboards, and AI use cases.
• Coordinate data quality issues from detection to remediation.
• Support AI governance, documenting ownership, risks, and decisions.
• Coordinate across teams to ensure AI use aligns with guardrails.
• Maintain governance docs and provide executive-ready summaries.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Analytics governance

Business communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field

Job description

Job Description

AltaGas - Sr. Specialist, AI & Data Governance

AltaGas is strengthening how we govern, manage, and improve enterprise data as we scale data products, analytics, automation, and AI. We’re looking for a Senior Specialist, AI & Data Governance to help make our data trusted, measurable, and ready for business use.

This is a hands-on, business-facing role for someone who can turn governance principles into practical ways of working, build strong partnerships across business and technical teams, and establish the trusted data foundations needed for analytics and responsible AI.

You will:

• Own the day-to-day operation of our data governance and data quality practices, ensuring clear ownership, stewardship, standards, decision‑making, and accountability across the business.
• Lead governance councils and working groups, coordinating decisions, actions, escalations, and progress.
• Onboard and support data owners and data stewards, helping establish clear responsibilities, decision rights, and ways of working.
• Partner with business and technical teams to identify critical data elements, define quality expectations, and translate business requirements into measurable data quality rules and controls.
• Develop dashboards and scorecards that provide visibility into data quality, trends, issues, ownership, remediation, and business impact.
• Support Master Data Management (MDM) by defining ownership, approvals, escalation paths, quality expectations, and remediation processes across priority data domains.
• Embed governance and data quality requirements into data products, dashboards, reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Coordinate data quality issues from identification through remediation, helping teams address root causes and create sustainable solutions.
• Support AI governance and Responsible AI, coordinating assessments and documenting ownership, data dependencies, risks, controls, human oversight, and key decisions.
• Partner across business, Digital, security, privacy, legal, risk, architecture, data, and delivery teams to ensure AI use cases align with established guardrails.
• Maintain governance documentation and provide clear dashboards, updates, and executive‑ready summaries on progress, risks, decisions, and business value.

You have:

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field is preferred.
• 4–5+ years of hands‑on experience in data governance, data quality, data management, analytics governance, or a related discipline.
• Practical experience implementing data governance and data quality frameworks, including governance forums, stewardship, ownership, and issue management.
• Strong knowledge of critical data elements, data definitions, business glossaries, data quality rules and dimensions, remediation workflows, and Master Data Management.
• Experience developing or supporting data quality dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, or reporting for business and leadership audiences.
• An understanding of how trusted and governed data supports analytics, automation, and AI.
• Working knowledge of AI governance and Responsible AI principles, including accountability, risk assessment, human oversight, transparency, and controls.
• The ability to translate technical data concepts into clear business language and influence stakeholders without formal authority.
• Strong communication, organization, stakeholder management, and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

Why AltaGas

You’ll have the opportunity to shape how data and AI governance are put into practice across AltaGas. Working across business and technical teams, you’ll help build trusted data foundations that support better analytics, automation, data products, and responsible AI.

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For Canadian hires: AltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job‑related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

For U.S. hires: WGL/SEMCO/AltaGas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending upon the specifics of the role.

U.S. affiliates of AltaGas are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.