Data Governance Lead — Drive Trusted Data & AI Readiness

Cushman & Wakefield; Pateros; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish and operate governance across the DNA Data and Analytics portfolio. You will ensure ownership, definitions, quality, lineage, and controls, collaborating with data owners, stewards, product owners, and technology teams to enable trusted decision-making and regulatory compliance.

You will lead governance strategy, risk assessments, and cross-functional forums, driving adoption of policy across the organisation and embedding

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Data Management, Information Management, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Risk, or related discipline.
• At least eight years of relevant experience in data governance, enterprise data management, data quality, metadata, information architecture, data risk, or related field.
• Demonstrable experience establishing or operationalising a data governance framework in a complex, matrixed organisation.
• Strong working knowledge of data ownership and stewardship, metadata and business semantics, Critical Data Elements, data quality, lineage, lifecycle controls, and governance of data and analytics products.
• Experience facilitating governance councils, working groups, workshops, and cross-functional decision forums.
• Ability to translate policies and technical concepts into practical business processes.
• Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills, including ability to challenge constructively and obtain decisions from senior stakeholders.
• Practical understanding of data platforms, data warehouses or lakes, ETL or data pipelines, BI environments, and system integrations.

Responsibilities

• Governance strategy, operating model, ownership, and stewardship.
• Lead governance forums and cross-functional engagement to resolve ownership, definitions, quality, remediation, product-readiness, risk, and exception decisions, with clear actions and escalation paths.
• Prepare concise decision papers and governance reporting for senior stakeholders, showing business impact, control implications, options, dependencies, and recommended action.
• Build governance capability through practical guidance, training, coaching, and targeted automation of workflows, metadata capture, quality monitoring, evidence, and reporting.

Skills

Governance

Stakeholder management

Data quality

Metadata management

Data lineage

Policy translation

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Analytics product governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

Job description

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Data Governance Lead to establish and operate governance across the DNA Data and Analytics portfolio. You will ensure ownership, definitions, quality, lineage, and controls, collaborating with data owners, stewards, product owners, and technology teams to enable trusted decision-making and regulatory compliance.

You will lead governance strategy, risk assessments, and cross-functional forums, driving adoption of policy across the organisation and embedding