Senior Data Governance Specialist

Neostats Analytics Solutions; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Neostats Analytics Solutions in Bengaluru seeks an experienced Data Governance Specialist to shape and manage data governance programs across critical data domains. The role emphasizes data quality, profiling, and metadata management with Informatica Cloud and cloud platforms.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, drive data quality checks, and support governance in regulated government engagements, ensuring compliance and robust documentation.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in data governance, data quality, information management, or related data management roles.
• Hands-on experience with Informatica Cloud, especially data quality, profiling, metadata, governance, or catalog capabilities.
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, policies, standards, data domains, and critical data elements.
• Practical experience defining and implementing data quality rules, scorecards, issue logs, and remediation processes.
• Ability to translate business requirements into data quality checks and governance controls.
• Experience working with structured enterprise data across systems, databases, data warehouses, or cloud platforms.
• Good understanding of data lineage, metadata management, business glossaries, and data cataloguing.
• Strong documentation skills, including governance standards, rule specifications, process flows, and operating procedures.
• Experience working with business users, data owners, technology teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and ability to manage complex data issues.
• Prior experience in government, public sector, banking, telecom, or regulated industries is preferred.
• Willingness to work from office in the UAE for a government client engagement.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of data governance frameworks, operating models, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Define, document, and manage data quality rules across critical data domains and business processes.
• Configure and use Informatica Cloud capabilities to support governance, metadata management, data quality, profiling, and rule execution.
• Work with business stakeholders to identify critical data elements, ownership models, stewardship responsibilities, and data issue management workflows.
• Conduct data profiling and quality assessment to identify gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and control issues.
• Translate business rules into technical data quality checks, validation logic, and remediation workflows.
• Support the implementation of data cataloguing, metadata management, lineage, and stewardship processes.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to embed governance and quality controls into data pipelines and reporting layers.
• Track data quality metrics, exceptions, root causes, and remediation progress.
• Prepare clear documentation, dashboards, and reports for governance forums, client leadership, and project stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery aligns with public sector data governance expectations, security standards, and client compliance requirements.
• Contribute to workshops, requirement gathering sessions, stakeholder discussions, and governance maturity assessments.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Information management

Data management

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Informatica Cloud

Microsoft Azure data services

Databricks

Data cataloguing

DCAM / DAMA knowledge

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of data governance frameworks, operating models, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Define, document, and manage data quality rules across critical data domains and business processes.
• Configure and use Informatica Cloud capabilities to support governance, metadata management, data quality, profiling, and rule execution.
• Work with business stakeholders to identify critical data elements, ownership models, stewardship responsibilities, and data issue management workflows.
• Conduct data profiling and quality assessment to identify gaps, inconsistencies, duplication, and control issues.
• Translate business rules into technical data quality checks, validation logic, and remediation workflows.
• Support the implementation of data cataloguing, metadata management, lineage, and stewardship processes.
• Collaborate with data engineering teams to embed governance and quality controls into data pipelines and reporting layers.
• Track data quality metrics, exceptions, root causes, and remediation progress.
• Prepare clear documentation, dashboards, and reports for governance forums, client leadership, and project stakeholders.
• Ensure delivery aligns with public sector data governance expectations, security standards, and client compliance requirements.
• Contribute to workshops, requirement gathering sessions, stakeholder discussions, and governance maturity assessments.

Preferred candidate profile

• 6+ years of experience in data governance, data quality, information management, or related data management roles.
• Hands-on experience with Informatica Cloud, especially data quality, profiling, metadata, governance, or catalog-related capabilities.
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, policies, standards, data domains, and critical data elements.
• Practical experience defining and implementing data quality rules, scorecards, issue logs, and remediation processes.
• Ability to translate business requirements into data quality checks and governance controls.
• Experience working with structured enterprise data across systems, databases, data warehouses, or cloud platforms.
• Good understanding of data lineage, metadata management, business glossaries, and data cataloguing.
• Strong documentation skills, including governance standards, rule specifications, process flows, and operating procedures.
• Experience working with business users, data owners, technology teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and ability to manage complex data issues.
• Prior experience in government, public sector, banking, telecom, or regulated industries is preferred.
• Willingness to work from office in the UAE for a government client engagement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Informatica Cloud certification or hands-on project experience with Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure data services, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, or enterprise data platforms.
• Knowledge of DAMA, DCAM, or similar data management frameworks.
• Experience supporting data governance programs for government or regulated clients.
• Familiarity with privacy, security, and compliance requirements in enterprise data environments.
• Experience creating executive-level data quality dashboards and governance reporting.