Senior Data Governance Leader — Data Quality, Access & Compliance

Global Applications Solution; Canada; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Applications Solution is seeking a senior Data Governance SME to lead our enterprise data strategy, governance framework, and advisory services in Ontario, Canada. You will define and execute governance practices, ensuring data quality, controlled access, transparency, and strategic visibility across the organization.

The role focuses on strategic advisory, data quality and lineage, access governance, policy ownership, and risk/compliance alignment with regional privacy laws.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in data quality, governance, access control, and data visibility advisory services.
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK and data stewardship practices.
• Experience with data governance tools: Collibra, Informatica DG, Purview, or Alation.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and leadership abilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advisory to business and technical stakeholders on data governance.
• Establish data quality metrics, profiling, and end-to-end lineage mapping.
• Design and implement access models, RBAC, and security policies.
• Standardize data definitions, dictionaries, metadata, and stewardship workflows.
• Identify data risks and align with privacy laws and standards.

Skills

Strategic advisory

Data governance

Data quality

Data lineage

Access control

Policy enforcement

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Collibra

Informatica Data Governance

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Job description

Global Applications Solution is seeking a senior Data Governance SME to lead our enterprise data strategy, governance framework, and advisory services in Ontario, Canada. You will define and execute governance practices, ensuring data quality, controlled access, transparency, and strategic visibility across the organization.

The role focuses on strategic advisory, data quality and lineage, access governance, policy ownership, and risk/compliance alignment with regional privacy laws.