Data Cloud Governance Lead — Hybrid NJ

Randstad Digital; East Hanover (NJ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Digital is seeking a Data Cloud Governance Manager in East Hanover, NJ. Hybrid schedule (Mon-Thurs on-site, 2 days remote) with a pay rate of $80–$100/hour.

The role focuses on enterprise governance for Data Cloud capabilities, translating policies into platform guardrails and ensuring compliant delivery across Data Spaces. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in governance, privacy, security, or related fields, strong stakeholder collaboration, and experience with enterprise data

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data, technology, engineering, computer science, or a related field required.
• Fluent English; other languages are desirable.
• 5 years of experience in data governance, privacy, security, risk, compliance, product management, or platform governance roles.

Responsibilities

• Govern enterprise policies: Own and evolve central attribute-based access control policies, tagging standards, dynamic masking rules, encryption expectations, and cross-space data-sharing guardrails.
• Manage governance intake: Receive and qualify requests for new access policies, tags, privacy controls, compliance rules, and exceptions; document scope, rationale, risk, and decision requirements.
• Assess risk and compliance: Evaluate proposed Data Streams, Data Lake Objects, integrations, and use cases for privacy, security, data protection, and regulated-data considerations, including PHI and PII where applicable.
• Translate policy into backlog: Convert governance needs into clear epics, features, policy updates, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans for platform and engineering teams.
• Support prioritization and backlog planning: Prioritize enterprise governance work based on risk, strategic value, dependencies, and platform capacity; maintain a transparent governance backlog and decision log.
• Provide PI planning assurance: Validate compliance and complete security reviews for new Data Streams, shared Data Lake Objects, and related enterprise capabilities before committed delivery.
• Lead control design and validation: Partner with IT, architecture, privacy, legal, security, and engineering teams to design practical controls and verify that controls are implemented as intended.
• Audit and monitor compliance: Establish evidence-based reviews of platform configurations, access, encryption, masking, tagging, and cross-boundary sharing; drive remediation of identified gaps.
• Enable scalable self-service: Publish reusable standards, decision criteria, templates, and guidance that allow Data Space teams to design compliant solutions earlier in the lifecycle.
• Communicate governance decisions: Explain policy intent, trade-offs, approvals, conditions, and exceptions clearly to business and technical stakeholders.

Skills

Data governance

Privacy

Security

Regulatory compliance

Product management

Platform governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Policy translation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in data/tech/engineering

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Salesforce Data Cloud

Job description

Randstad Digital is seeking a Data Cloud Governance Manager in East Hanover, NJ. Hybrid schedule (Mon-Thurs on-site, 2 days remote) with a pay rate of $80–$100/hour.

The role focuses on enterprise governance for Data Cloud capabilities, translating policies into platform guardrails and ensuring compliant delivery across Data Spaces. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in governance, privacy, security, or related fields, strong stakeholder collaboration, and experience with enterprise data