Strategic Data Governance & Maturity Lead

NorthBay Solutions LLC; Lahore; Hybrid; PKR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NorthBay Solutions LLC in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks a Data Management Maturity & Governance Lead to drive governance maturity initiatives across the organization. You will lead assessments, define policies, standards, controls, and remediation plans, coordinating with business and technology stakeholders.

The role requires 8–12 years of experience in data governance, data quality, metadata, and data lifecycle management, with a proven ability to translate requirements into actionable processes in

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of professional experience in Data Governance, Data Management, or related fields.
• Strong experience in enterprise data governance and maturity programs.
• Hands-on data maturity and gap assessments.
• Experience developing data policies, standards, and governance controls.
• Experience managing remediation plans and improvement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of data governance concepts (metadata, lineage, stewardship, ownership).
• Experience with evidence management, audit prep, and assessment readiness.
• Excellent stakeholder management across business, data, and tech teams.
• Hybrid, international, client-facing environment experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate data management maturity and governance initiatives across the organization.
• 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

Data Quality

Data Strategy

Data Policies

Stakeholder Management

Documentation

Governance Controls

Evidence Management

Metadata Management

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Job description

NorthBay Solutions LLC in Lahore, Pakistan, seeks a Data Management Maturity & Governance Lead to drive governance maturity initiatives across the organization. You will lead assessments, define policies, standards, controls, and remediation plans, coordinating with business and technology stakeholders.

The role requires 8–12 years of experience in data governance, data quality, metadata, and data lifecycle management, with a proven ability to translate requirements into actionable processes in