Data Governance Lead: Quality, Lineage & Observability

K&K Global Talent Solutions INC.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

K&K Global Talent Solutions INC. seeks a Senior Data Governance Lead to architect and steer enterprise data governance, quality, lineage and observability across complex data platforms.

You will shape governance policies, standards and operating models and drive adoption with risk, compliance, data engineering and business units. You will partner across Azure, AWS, Databricks and Snowflake to ensure compliant data management, lineage, and data quality.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise data management with governance, quality, lineage and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery workshops, current/target-state design and roadmaps.
• Define enterprise governance operating models, policies, controls and decision rights.
• Establish data quality frameworks with profiling, rules, scorecards and issue management.
• Implement data observability for freshness, volume, schema and incidents.
• Embed governance across cloud, lakehouse, DW, data integration and analytics ecosystems.
• Mentor data governance leads, stewards and engineers; deliver reusable accelerators.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Data governance

Communication

Education

DAMA/CDMP certification

DCAM certification

Tools

Collibra

Informatica CDGC/Axon/EDC/IDQ

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Atlan

BigID

Monte Carlo

Bigeye

Unity Catalog

Job description

K&K Global Talent Solutions INC. seeks a Senior Data Governance Lead to architect and steer enterprise data governance, quality, lineage and observability across complex data platforms.

You will shape governance policies, standards and operating models and drive adoption with risk, compliance, data engineering and business units. You will partner across Azure, AWS, Databricks and Snowflake to ensure compliant data management, lineage, and data quality.