Senior Data Governance Architect – Enterprise Data (Remote)

Danaher Corporation; Warszawa; Hybrid; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Danaher, hosted by Cytiva in Kraków, seeks a Lead Data Governance Architect to define and drive the enterprise data governance architecture and strategy across the organization. You will partner with business, technology, and functional leaders to deliver standards, policies, and operating models for data management.

This role offers on-site Kraków or remote Poland options within a global life sciences environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Data Management, Data Architecture, Data Governance, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of Data Architecture and Data Management principles.
• Experience defining Data Governance policies, standards, controls, and procedures.
• Experience with one or more major cloud ecosystems, such as Azure, AWS, or Snowflake.

Responsibilities

• Design governance capabilities covering Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Cataloguing, Data Lineage, Master Data Management, Data Classification, and Data Privacy.
• Define and maintain data ownership, stewardship, accountability, and decision-making models across the organization.
• Develop and maintain the target-state Data Governance and Data Management architecture, ensuring alignment with Enterprise Architecture.
• Define standards for data domains, critical data elements, business glossaries, data models, data products, and data flows.
• Ensure that Data Governance requirements are embedded into data platforms, applications, analytics solutions, and transformation initiatives.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Architecture

Data Management

Data Quality

Metadata Management

Data Privacy

Data Security

Cloud Knowledge (Azure/AWS)

Data Ownership & Stewardship

Data Cataloguing

Data Lineage

Tools

Collibra

Microsoft Purview

Informatica

Alation

Atlan

Snowflake

Job description

Danaher, hosted by Cytiva in Kraków, seeks a Lead Data Governance Architect to define and drive the enterprise data governance architecture and strategy across the organization. You will partner with business, technology, and functional leaders to deliver standards, policies, and operating models for data management.

This role offers on-site Kraków or remote Poland options within a global life sciences environment.