Hybrid Data Governance Lead: Trusted Data & Quality

Mariner Innovations; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Competitive salary & benefits

Training & development

Job summary

Mariner Innovations is building a Data Governance Specialist pipeline to establish and advance governance practices across enterprise clients. You will work with data owners, stewards, architects, and analysts to develop governance frameworks, improve data quality, and enable data-driven decision making.

The role focuses on governance controls, data privacy, and compliance while collaborating with business and technical teams to embed governance into projects and solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, or related fields.
• Strong understanding of governance frameworks, policies, standards, and best practices.
• Experience with data quality management, metadata management, data lineage, and master data management.
• Knowledge of data privacy, security, and compliance requirements.
• Experience working with enterprise data platforms and reporting environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience collaborating with both business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, standards, and processes.
• Establish and support data stewardship programs and data ownership models.
• Define governance controls for data quality, metadata, master data, lineage, privacy, and compliance.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify and address data quality issues and governance gaps.
• Develop and maintain business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata repositories, and data lineage documentation.
• Facilitate governance councils, stakeholder workshops, and governance-related communications.
• Monitor adherence to governance policies and recommend corrective actions where required.
• Support data privacy, security, retention, and regulatory compliance initiatives.
• Partner with data architects, engineers, analysts, and business teams to embed governance practices into projects and solutions.
• Develop metrics, dashboards, and reports to measure governance effectiveness and data quality.
• Promote data literacy and best practices across the organization.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata management

Data lineage

Privacy & compliance

Enterprise data platforms

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Informatica

Alation

Job description

Mariner Innovations is building a Data Governance Specialist pipeline to establish and advance governance practices across enterprise clients. You will work with data owners, stewards, architects, and analysts to develop governance frameworks, improve data quality, and enable data-driven decision making.

The role focuses on governance controls, data privacy, and compliance while collaborating with business and technical teams to embed governance into projects and solutions.