Senior Data Governance & Quality Lead

Roche; Madrid; On-site; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Senior Data Management & Governance Specialist to drive data governance, quality, and compliance across IT operations. You will partner with business and technical stakeholders to define data definitions, resolve issues, and ensure trusted data assets.

You will lead complex governance initiatives, map data lineage, and align governance with AI readiness while leveraging IT4IT and data privacy expertise.

Qualifications

• Data-first mindset and experience leading large governance projects.
• Proven track record of independently leading data governance across multiple business units.
• Experience managing data assets with quality, lineage, and metadata accuracy.
• Familiarity with IT4IT and CSDM preferred.

Responsibilities

• Scope / (Content Leadership): Leads, develops, and enforces data governance policies aligned with IT4IT value streams. Works independently on specific governance projects to ensure organizational alignment and data integrity.
• Accountability/Problem Solving: Develop Data Standards and data models for critical IT data entities across the IT4IT value streams. Diagnose root cause of poor data quality in IT operations. Implement proactive data quality frameworks following Enterprise Data Strategy guidelines.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborates extensively with various departments to ensure compliance. Communicates effectively and clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to build trust and alignment.
• Impact/Strategy: Handles big-sized data governance projects. Develops and executes strategies that significantly improve data quality and overall organizational compliance.
• Align data governance with agentic AI readiness: Define data quality, trust, and compliance standards.
• Complexity / (Product Size): Oversees more complex data governance systems. Ensures critical data integrity and security across multiple business units. Create data lineage and ownership maps for IT operations data across the IT4IT system landscape, establishing clear accountability for data quality and currency.
• Manage data governance across complex IT operations ecosystems including ServiceNow, Data Warehouses, monitoring platforms, asset management tools, and emerging automation/AI systems.
• Business / Technical ability: Applies high proficiency in data management tools and practices. Demonstrates and leverages a strong, comprehensive knowledge of data privacy laws and regulations to safeguard data assets. Apply knowledge of IT service management frameworks (e.g. IT4IT) to contextualize governance within ITSM processes.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Regulatory compliance

ITIL/IT4IT familiarity

MDM knowledge

Tools

ServiceNow

Data Warehouses

Monitoring platforms

Asset management tools

Automation/AI systems

Job description

Roche is seeking a Senior Data Management & Governance Specialist to drive data governance, quality, and compliance across IT operations. You will partner with business and technical stakeholders to define data definitions, resolve issues, and ensure trusted data assets.

You will lead complex governance initiatives, map data lineage, and align governance with AI readiness while leveraging IT4IT and data privacy expertise.