Data Governance & Maturity Lead

NorthBay Solutions; Islamabad; Hybrid; PKR 3,000,000 - 5,400,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthBay Solutions is seeking an experienced Data Management Maturity & Governance Lead to drive governance frameworks, maturity assessments, and compliance readiness across our client engagements. You will lead initiatives, develop policies, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to implement robust data practices.

The role emphasizes policy creation, remediation planning, and stakeholder collaboration in a hybrid, international client-facing environment.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of professional experience in Data Governance, Data Management, Data Quality, Data Strategy, or a related field.
• Strong experience in enterprise data governance and data management maturity programs.
• Hands-on experience conducting data maturity assessments and gap assessments.
• Experience developing and implementing data policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, and governance controls.
• Experience with evidence management, audit preparation, and compliance documentation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate data management maturity and governance initiatives.
• Assess existing data management capabilities against defined maturity requirements and assessment criteria.
• Conduct data management maturity and gap assessments and identify improvement opportunities.
• Develop, review, and maintain data management policies, standards, procedures, frameworks, and guidelines.
• Define and implement data governance controls, processes, roles, and responsibilities.
• Coordinate with business and technical stakeholders to implement required data management and governance practices.
• Develop and maintain remediation plans for identified governance and maturity gaps.
• Track remediation actions, ownership, timelines, dependencies, and closure status.
• Define, collect, validate, organize, and maintain evidence and supporting documentation for maturity and governance requirements.
• Ensure policies, procedures, controls, and supporting evidence are aligned with applicable assessment requirements.
• Establish and maintain structured repositories for governance documentation, approvals, evidence, and implementation records.
• Support audits, internal reviews, maturity assessments, compliance reviews, and governance assessments.
• Prepare management reports covering maturity progress, gaps, risks, remediation activities, and compliance readiness.
• Facilitate governance workshops and stakeholder sessions to drive adoption of data management practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve data governance capabilities, processes, and organizational maturity.
• Provide guidance to business and technical teams on data governance requirements and implementation.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Management

Maturity Assessments

Policies & Standards

Stakeholder Management

Audit Readiness

Data Quality

Data Lineage

Job description

NorthBay Solutions is seeking an experienced Data Management Maturity & Governance Lead to drive governance frameworks, maturity assessments, and compliance readiness across our client engagements. You will lead initiatives, develop policies, and coordinate with cross-functional teams to implement robust data practices.

The role emphasizes policy creation, remediation planning, and stakeholder collaboration in a hybrid, international client-facing environment.