Data Governance & AI Lead — Build Scalable Frameworks

Instant Impact; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Instant Impact in Cracow, Poland is seeking a Data Governance & AI Lead to establish scalable governance foundations across data platforms and AI initiatives. You will drive ownership, policies and governance forums with data owners, stewards, IT, risk and business units.

You will shape data literacy, ensure regulatory alignment incl. GDPR, and embed governance into analytics pipelines while fostering responsible AI practices across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience implementing and running Data Governance, Data Management or Data Risk programmes.
• Experience designing and implementing governance frameworks, policies and standards.
• Strong knowledge of data ownership, stewardship, data quality, metadata, lineage and data risk.
• Ability to establish governance forums and turn senior stakeholder support into genuine business participation and accountability.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to communicate complex data topics clearly to different audiences.
• Experience driving behavioural change, data literacy or stewardship initiatives.
• Understanding of GDPR, privacy, security and wider regulatory obligations.
• Familiarity with governance tooling such as Purview, Collibra, Axon or equivalent platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and continuously develop the organisation’s data governance framework, policies and standards.
• Establish clear data ownership and stewardship across the business.
• Create and lead data councils and governance forums, building accountability and engagement across different business areas.
• Partner with teams to define critical data, common definitions, governance rules and standards.
• Establish controls across data quality, classification, retention, access, metadata, lineage and usage.
• Own the data risk agenda, identifying, assessing and monitoring risks and supporting remediation and reporting.
• Work with Risk, Compliance and Security to align governance with regulatory requirements.
• Embed governance into data platforms, reporting, pipelines and self-service analytics.
• Build data literacy and stewardship programmes that make good data governance part of everyday practices.
• Champion responsible data use, ethics and transparency.
• Shape Responsible AI governance, ensuring emerging AI initiatives meet regulatory expectations.

Skills

Data governance

Data ownership

Data quality

Metadata & lineage

Stakeholder management

Responsible AI governance

Risk & compliance coordination

Tools

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Axon

Job description

Instant Impact in Cracow, Poland is seeking a Data Governance & AI Lead to establish scalable governance foundations across data platforms and AI initiatives. You will drive ownership, policies and governance forums with data owners, stewards, IT, risk and business units.

You will shape data literacy, ensure regulatory alignment incl. GDPR, and embed governance into analytics pipelines while fostering responsible AI practices across the organisation.