Data Cloud Governance Lead

HireLifeScience; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

HireLifeScience is seeking a Data Cloud Governance Manager to lead enterprise data governance within the US market. The role focuses on policy development, access controls, tagging, masking, encryption, and data-sharing guardrails across Data Space teams.

It requires translating policy into actionable backlogs for platform and engineering teams, aligning with privacy and security requirements. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data governance or related fields, strong cross-functional

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data, technology, business, engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in data governance, privacy, security, risk, compliance, product management, or platform governance.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data controls: access management, tagging, masking, encryption, consent, retention, and controlled data sharing.
• Experience translating policy and regulatory requirements into platform standards and delivery criteria.
• Demonstrated success working across business, IT, architecture, security, privacy, legal, data engineering, and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve central access control policies, tagging standards, dynamic masking rules, encryption expectations, and cross-space data-sharing guardrails.
• Receive and qualify requests for new access policies, tags, privacy controls, compliance rules, and exceptions; document scope, rationale, risk, and decisions.
• Evaluate proposed Data Streams, Data Lake Objects, integrations, and use cases for privacy, security, data protection, and regulated-data considerations.
• Convert governance needs into epics, features, policy updates, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans for platform and engineering teams.
• Prioritize enterprise governance work based on risk, strategic value, dependencies, and platform capacity; maintain a governance backlog and decision log.
• Validate compliance and complete security reviews for new Data Streams and Data Lake Objects before delivery.
• Partner with IT, architecture, privacy, legal, security, and engineering to design practical controls and verify implementation.
• Publish standards and guidance to enable Data Space teams to design compliant solutions earlier in the lifecycle.

Skills

Data governance

Policy management

Stakeholder alignment

Backlog grooming

Risk assessment

Data security

Regulatory compliance

Product management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Salesforce Data Cloud

Job description

HireLifeScience is seeking a Data Cloud Governance Manager to lead enterprise data governance within the US market. The role focuses on policy development, access controls, tagging, masking, encryption, and data-sharing guardrails across Data Space teams.

It requires translating policy into actionable backlogs for platform and engineering teams, aligning with privacy and security requirements. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data governance or related fields, strong cross-functional