Head of Data Governance & Platform Enablement

Global Payments; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments seeks a visionary Director of Data Governance & Enablement Platforms to build a unified, governed data foundation and self‑service capabilities across analytics, AI, and business teams. You will own the strategy and evolution of enterprise Data Catalog, Data Glossary, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, MDM, and Data Quality platforms.

The role partners with Data Trust & Risk, Strategy & Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Compliance to operationalize governance through

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Data Management, Data Governance Technologies, Data Platforms, Data Engineering, or related technology leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise Data Governance & Enablement Platforms strategy, roadmap, investment planning and adoption.
• Lead the governance enablement platforms (Data Catalog, Glossary, Data Dictionary, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, MDM, RDM, Data Quality, Data Profiling).
• Establish platform operating models, service management processes, SLAs/SLOs and adoption targets.
• Drive platform standardization, scalability, automation and integration with Data Strategy, Data Engineering, Security and Compliance.

Skills

Data governance

Platform leadership

Data Catalog

Data Glossary

Metadata management

Data Lineage

MDM

RDM

Data Quality

Data Profiling

Governance automation

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/IS/Engineering/Business)

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Atlan

Informatica

Reltio

Job description

Global Payments seeks a visionary Director of Data Governance & Enablement Platforms to build a unified, governed data foundation and self‑service capabilities across analytics, AI, and business teams. You will own the strategy and evolution of enterprise Data Catalog, Data Glossary, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, MDM, and Data Quality platforms.

The role partners with Data Trust & Risk, Strategy & Architecture, Engineering, Security, and Compliance to operationalize governance through