Associate Director

S&P Global, Inc.; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellness

Flexible Downtime

Continuous Learning

Invest in Your Future

Family Friendly Perks

Beyond the Basics

Job summary

S&P Global is seeking a senior Data Quality leader to govern enterprise‑scale data quality and drive strategy across critical domains. You will partner with Product, Technology and Operations to advance automation, observability, and governance, strengthening data integrity and stakeholder confidence.

Executive exposure and global scope are key, with responsibilities spanning governance, metrics, and AI/ML governance frameworks.

Qualifications

• Background in Finance/Statistics and preferred certifications in data quality (Lean Six Sigma, CIMP, DCAM).
• Executive presence with strong influencing and decision‑making capability.
• Inclusive leadership, accountability, and change‑management mindset.
• Demonstrates strong learning agility and digital acumen, with a continuous learning mindset.

Responsibilities

• Govern domain‑level operations and quality strategy, ensuring consistent execution of controls.
• Define outcome‑based quality metrics, including defect escape rates and control effectiveness.
• Establish statistical process controls and trend‑based insights to detect quality risk.
• Develop scalable sampling models to enhance monitoring and QA.
• Define a governance framework for AI/ML/LLM capabilities, including regression testing.

Skills

Data quality governance

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Finance/Statistics background

Job description

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 12

The Team

The role is being established within the Data Quality organisation of S&P Global's Enterprise Data Organization (EDO) to provide independent, enterprise-wide assurance of data quality. The team is accountable for assessing quality across critical data domains, strengthening governance, and building senior leadership confidence in the integrity, reliability, and trustworthiness of our data assets.

The Impact

This senior leadership role governs enterprise-scale data quality across critical domains, driving quality strategy, governance, and proactive risk prevention to strengthen data integrity and business confidence. By partnering across Product, Technology, and Operations, the role accelerates automation, observability, and quality transformation, enhancing stakeholder trust, regulatory readiness, and sustainable growth.

What’s in it for you

Enterprise-Wide Leadership Impact - Shape and influence data quality strategy across critical business domains, driving outcomes that directly enhance customer trust, business performance, and organisational growth.

Executive Visibility & Stakeholder Engagement - Partner closely with senior leaders across Product, Technology, Operations, and Data leadership teams, with regular exposure to key decision-makers and strategic transformation initiatives.

Global Scope & Cross-Functional Influence - Lead globally distributed teams and collaborate across regions, business units, and data functions to establish scalable governance, quality standards, and best practices at enterprise scale.

Career Growth Through Transformation Leadership - Play a pivotal role in advancing AI-enabled quality, automation, observability, and data governance capabilities, providing a unique platform to build executive leadership, innovation, and change-management expertise.

Build the Future of Data Quality - Drive the evolution of quality from a control function to a strategic business capability, influencing how one of the world's leading data providers delivers trusted, high-quality data products to customers globally.

Responsibilities

Govern domain‑level operations and quality strategy, ensuring consistent execution of controls, RCA discipline, and prevention mechanisms.

Define outcome‑based quality metrics, including defect escape rates, recurrence rates, and control effectiveness measures such as precision and recall.

Establish statistical process controls and trend‑based insights to detect early signs of performance deterioration and quality risk.

Develop scalable sampling models, including stratified and acceptance sampling, to enhance monitoring effectiveness and quality assurance.

Define a standardized evaluation and governance framework for AI/ML/LLM capabilities, incorporating benchmark datasets, scoring rubrics, regression testing, and failure taxonomy.

What We’re Looking For

Background in Finance/Statistics and preferred certifications in data quality (Lean Six Sigma, CIMP, DCAM).

Executive presence with strong influencing and decision‑making capability.

Inclusive leadership, accountability, and change‑management mindset.

Demonstrates strong learning agility and digital acumen, with a continuous learning mindset and the ability to adapt to evolving tools and technologies.

What’s In It For You?

Our Mission: Advancing Essential Intelligence.

Our People: We're more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we're able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective.

Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all. From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in.

We're committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values

Integrity, Discovery, Partnership Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global. Our benefits include:

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It's not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards-small perks can make a big difference.

For more information on benefits by country visit: https://spgbenefits.com/benefit-summaries

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