East Hanover, United States | Posted on 19/10/2026
2.Data Cloud Governance Manager
Location:East Hanover, NJ – Hybrid (3 days onsite and 2 daysremote)
Pay Rate:$80–$100/hour (lower competitive rates preferred)
Experience:5+ years in data governance, privacy, security, risk,compliance, or platform governance
Job Purpose
The Data Cloud Governance Manager will own and maintain the governance framework for enterprise Salesforce Data Cloud capabilities. This role ensuresthat data access, security, privacy, classification, masking, encryption, andcross-platform data sharing follow established policies and regulatoryrequirements.
The position will collaborate with IT, architecture,security, privacy, legal, and data engineering teams to implement practicalgovernance controls, manage compliance risks, and enable secure and scalabledata usage across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Ownand maintain enterprise data governance policies, includingattribute-based access controls, data tagging, dynamic masking,encryption, and data-sharing standards.
- Managegovernance requests involving access policies, privacy controls,compliance requirements, and policy exceptions.
- AssessData Streams, Data Lake Objects, integrations, and business use cases forsecurity, privacy, and regulatory risks, including PII and PHI whereapplicable.
- Translategovernance policies into technical requirements, epics, features,acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
- Maintaina prioritized governance backlog based on risk, business value,dependencies, and platform delivery capacity.
- Reviewsecurity, privacy, and compliance requirements for new data capabilitiesbefore implementation and release.
- Partnerwith IT, architecture, security, privacy, legal, and engineering teams todesign, validate, and implement governance controls.
- Conductgovernance reviews and monitors access configurations, encryption, masking,tagging, and cross-boundary data sharing.
- Identifycompliance gaps, document audit findings, assign remediation actions, andtrack closure.
- Developreusable standards, templates, and guidelines to help teams buildcompliant data solutions.
- Communicategovernance decisions, approvals, exceptions, risks, and requirements tobusiness and technical stakeholders.
- Ensuregovernance controls are measurable, auditable, and consistentlyimplemented across the platform.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor'sdegree in Data, Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or arelated field.
- Minimum5 years of experience in data governance, data privacy, informationsecurity, risk, compliance, or platform governance.
- Strongunderstanding of enterprise data controls, including access management,data classification, tagging, masking, encryption, consent, retention, andcontrolled data sharing.
- Experiencetranslating regulatory and enterprise policies into technical standardsand implementation requirements.
- Abilityto collaborate across business, IT, architecture, security, privacy,legal, and data engineering teams.
- Stronganalytical, documentation, communication, and stakeholder managementskills.
- Priorpharma or life sciences experience is required.
- Localcandidates in New Jersey who can meet the hybrid schedule are preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-onexperience with Salesforce Data Cloud governance, data models, DataStreams, Data Lake Objects, and platform access controls.
- Experiencein healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or another regulatedindustry.
- Knowledgeof agile product delivery, audit evidence, risk-based controls, andenterprise architecture governance.