Lead, Data Product Management – Governance

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Bogotá; On-site; COP 284,765,000 - 379,687,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Lead, Data Product Management – Governance to drive hands-on delivery, adoption, and governance of data products across the MedTech Digital Solutions portfolio. You will ensure data products are well-defined, trusted, and aligned with business priorities and regulatory expectations.

You will partner with business owners, technology teams, governance partners, and data engineering to enforce metadata standards, provenance, and data quality while mentoring data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in data analytics, information systems, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years of progressive experience in data product management, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, or enterprise data enablement.
• Preferred: experience in regulated environments such as MedTech or healthcare.
• Hands-on familiarity with data catalogs and metadata management, glossaries, data quality tooling, and requirements documentation.

Responsibilities

• Execute governance practices including ownership and stewardship, lifecycle controls, and metadata standards.
• Gather and translate data requirements into acceptance criteria and product specs.
• Collaborate with data engineering to review designs, validate transforms, and ensure data pipelines meet contracts and SLAs.
• Maintain and improve business glossaries, data dictionaries, and metadata standards.
• Coordinate with architecture, privacy, legal, regulatory, and security to ensure compliant, scalable solutions.
• Create playbooks, runbooks, and onboarding materials to drive adoption and repeatable processes.
• Mentor junior data stewards and promote governance best practices.

Skills

Data governance

Metadata management

Data quality tooling

Requirements documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Alation

Collibra

Jira

Confluence

Power BI

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions are personal.Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow,and profoundly impact health for humanity.

Learn more at jnj.com. As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual.

We respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function: MarketingJob Sub Function: Product ManagementJob Category: ProfessionalAll Job Posting Locations: Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia, SãoPaulo, Brazil

Job Description

The Lead, Data Product Management – Governance will drive the hands‑on delivery, adoption, and governance of data products across Johnson & Johnson MedTech Digital Solutions. This individual ensures data products are well‑defined, discoverable, trusted, and aligned with business priorities, enterprise data standards, and applicable regulatory expectations, while partnering closely with business owners, technology teams, governance partners, and data engineering.

• Implement and enforce data product governance, including ownership, stewardship, lifecycle controls, and metadata standards.
• Elicit, clarify, and prioritize business data requirements and translate them into clear acceptance criteria and product specs.
• Support implementation by working with data engineering to validate designs, transformations, pipelines, and SLAs.
• Maintain and improve the data catalog, business glossaries, and metadata so entries are consistent, discoverable, and consumer ready.
• Define, monitor, and manage data quality rules, coordinate issue triage, and drive remediation with owners and stewards.
• Coordinate with architecture, privacy, legal, regulatory, records management, and security to ensure compliant, scalable solutions.
• Create playbooks, runbooks, onboarding materials, and training to drive adoption and sustain repeatable operating processes.
• Act as a subject‑matter expert and mentor to promote governance best practices and support data stewards.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Execute and operationalize governance practices, including ownership/stewardship assignments, lifecycle controls, metadata standards, and enforcement of policies.
• Work with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and prioritize data product requirements; translate outcomes into clear acceptance criteria and delivery‑ready documentation.
• Collaborate with data engineering to review designs, validate transforms, and ensure pipelines deliver to the agreed data contract, quality, and SLA.
• Work with data stewards to maintain and improve business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standards, and ensure catalog entries are searchable, consistent, and consumer friendly.
• Coordinate with owners and stewards to define quality rules, implement automated checks, triage data issues, and drive remediation.
• Liaise with architecture, privacy, legal, regulatory, records management, and security teams to ensure compliant, scalable solutions.
• Create playbooks, runbooks, onboarding materials, and governance forum content; run adoption activities and trainings to embed repeatable operating processes.
• Act as the go‑to expert for data product governance topics, mentor junior stewards, and influence stakeholders to adopt standards and best practices.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

Experience: Minimum of 3 years of progressive experience in data product management, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, business analysis, or enterprise data enablement.

Preferred: Experience in regulated environment such as MedTech, healthcare, pharmaceutical environments or another highly governed industry.

Technical & Functional Skills: Hands‑on familiarity with data catalogs and metadata management, business glossaries, data quality tooling, requirements documentation, and multi‑functional delivery practices. Experience with Alation, Collibra, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar platforms is an asset.

Leadership & Interpersonal Skills: Strong communicator, effective cross‑functional influencer, problem‑solver, and mentor; demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple workstreams and drive outcomes without direct reports.

Travel: May require up to 10% domestic and/or international travel based on business needs. Role is required to be fully onsite per attendance policy.

Johnson & Johnson is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Preferred Skills

• Advanced Analytics
• Business Intelligence (BI)
• Coaching
• Collaboration
• Compliance Management
• Critical Thinking
• Data Analysis
• Database Management
• Data Privacy Standards
• Data Quality
• Data Reporting
• Data Savvy
• Data Science
• Data Visualization
• Developing Others
• Differential Insights
• Inclusive Leadership
• Leadership
• Workflow Management

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions are personal.Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

Our Credo calls on us to respect the dignity of every individual and create an environment for all people to thrive. Throughout the recruitment process - from application through hiring - we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations/adjustments for qualified candidates with disabilities.