Data Governance Manager

Tekshapers; Canada; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tekshapers seeks a Data Governance Lead to drive enterprise-wide data governance, quality, lineage and observability. You will design operating models, policies, and governance forums, and partner with risk, compliance, and analytics teams to elevate data maturity across cloud and on-prem environments.

The role requires 12+ years in data management, 7+ in governance/management, and hands-on experience with Collibra, Purview, Informatica and datastores.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise data management with governance focus.
• Experience defining operating models, policies, controls and governance forums.
• Hands-on knowledge of metadata, data catalog, glossary and data ownership.
• Deep data quality framework experience including profiling, design, remediation.
• Experience building data observability across pipelines and dashboards.
• Ability to integrate governance, quality, lineage and observability across cloud/data ecosystems.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as Collibra, Purview, Informatica, Alation, etc.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata management

Data lineage

Data observability

Governance frameworks

KPI/KRI

Stakeholder management

Tools

Collibra

Informatica CDGC/Axon/EDC/IDQ

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Atlan

BigID

Monte Carlo

Bigeye

Databricks Unity Catalog

Job description

Data Governance Lead

12-16 years overall, including 7+ years in Data Governance/Data Management and 3+ years in a lead or architecture role

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• 12+ years of experience in enterprise data management, with strong expertise across Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata, Data Lineage and Data Observability.
• Proven experience defining and implementing enterprise Data Governance operating models, policies, standards, controls, stewardship structures, decision rights and governance forums.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of business and technical metadata, data catalog, glossary, classification, ownership, critical data elements and end-to-end lineage.
• Deep understanding of Data Quality frameworks, including profiling, rule design, controls, scorecards, issue management, root-cause analysis, remediation and continuous monitoring.
• Experience establishing Data Observability capabilities spanning freshness, volume, schema, distribution, pipeline health, anomalies, incidents, service levels and operational dashboards.
• Ability to integrate governance, quality, lineage and observability controls across cloud, lakehouse, data warehouse, data integration and analytics ecosystems.
• Experience with one or more enterprise platforms such as Collibra, Informatica CDGC/Axon/EDC/IDQ, Microsoft Purview, Alation, Atlan, BigID, Monte Carlo, Bigeye, Databricks Unity Catalog or comparable tools.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture, data modeling, ETL/ELT, APIs, batch/streaming pipelines, SQL and cloud data platforms such as Azure, AWS, Databricks or Snowflake.
• Experience defining governance and quality KPIs/KRIs, control evidence, data issue workflows, auditability and executive reporting.
• Good understanding of privacy, security, retention, regulatory and risk-management expectations relevant to financial services, including BCBS 239, GDPR/CCPA and data-control principles.
• Proven experience leading discovery workshops, current-state assessments, target-state design, roadmaps, tool evaluations, implementation planning and adoption/change initiatives.
• Strong consulting, stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the ability to engage business, risk, compliance, data, engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Preferred certifications in DAMA/CDMP, DCAM, Collibra, Informatica, Microsoft Purview, cloud data platforms, data quality or related disciplines.