Data Governance Assurance & Stewardship Associate Director

EY; City of Rochester (NY); In loco; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Tempo pieno

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EY is seeking an Associate Director in the Global Data Stewardship Office to design and operate governance monitoring, evidence and stewardship capabilities. You will translate governance requirements into indicators, dashboards, and remediation workflows, while ensuring controls are embedded and operating effectively across data ownership, metadata, lineage and data quality.

Collaborating with business, Service Line Quality and technology stakeholders, you will drive product-like delivery from

Competenze

• Deep expertise in modern data governance, federated operating models, Data Owner and Data Steward accountabilities.
• Strong knowledge of data domains, metadata, lineage and data quality.
• Experience with governance platforms, attestation, and evidence workflows.
• Ability to translate policy requirements into measurable monitoring rules and dashboards.

Mansioni

• Establish continuous governance monitoring and assurance capability.
• Define monitoring rules, thresholds and reporting.
• Assess governance ownership, metadata, lineage and data lifecycle controls.
• Translate control objectives into test procedures and evidence standards.
• Validate attestations and remediation actions with owners.
• Coordinate integration of governance platforms and data sources.
• Deliver governance capabilities with traceability and auditable records.
• Report governance insights to stakeholders and forums.

Conoscenze

Data governance

Federated models

Data stewardship

APIs

Strumenti

APIs

Data catalogues

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Position Summary

The Governance Monitoring, Assurance & Stewardship SME is an Associate Director role within the Global Data Stewardship Office, combining data governance and assurance expertise with practical technology delivery and business engagement. The role designs and operates governance monitoring, evidence and stewardship-effectiveness capabilities, providing objective second-line insight into whether governance accountabilities and controls are embedded and operating effectively. It translates approved governance requirements into indicator and evidence models, monitoring rules, dashboards, integrations and attestation and remediation workflows. Findings inform measurable improvement across ownership, metadata, lineage, data quality, classification, access, sharing, retention and responsible data and AI use. Working with business, Service Line Quality, data and technology stakeholders, the role applies product management practices from discovery and requirements definition through prioritisation, design, configuration, testing, approved release, adoption and operational handover. It delivers scoped capabilities within delegated authority and approved architecture, security and change controls, measuring business value, adoption and control effectiveness. The role strengthens federated stewardship without taking over first-line data or control ownership or third-line Internal Audit responsibilities; independent review addresses self‑review conflicts arising from its implementation work.

Essential Functions of the Job

• Establish continuous governance monitoring, evidence and assurance capability, connecting findings and stewardship insight to measurable improvement.
• Define and configure governance measures, indicators, thresholds, reporting rules and a risk-based monitoring plan; translate approved policy and control requirements into traceable, machine-readable monitoring rules and metadata, maintaining links to source requirements and control evidence.
• Assess whether accountabilities, decision rights, metadata, lineage, data quality and lifecycle controls are embedded and operating.
• Translate approved control objectives into test procedures, sampling approaches, evidence standards, rating criteria and escalation thresholds, agreeing interpretations with designated control owners and recommending changes where gaps are identified.
• Validate self‑assessments and attestations and analyse key risk, control and performance indicators.
• Identify systemic gaps, recurring themes and root causes; track findings, agree remediation actions with accountable owners, validate closure evidence and elevate overdue or material issues. Accountable owners remain responsible for implementing remediation and accepting residual risk.
• Define role profiles, competency expectations, guidance, learning pathways and communities of practice for Data Owners and Data Stewards.
• Configure and validate supported evidence integrations from governance platforms, catalogues, lineage, data quality, workflow and issue‑management sources using approved APIs, connectors or scripts; verify evidence provenance, completeness, accuracy and timeliness with accountable source owners.
• Conduct discovery with Service Lines, Service Line Quality, Data Owners, Regional Data Stewards, assurance users and control and platform owners to understand business problems and user needs. Engage the data ecosystem, including the Global Data Office (GDO), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs), to translate needs into business, functional and non-functional requirements, capability roadmaps, prioritised backlogs, user stories and measurable acceptance criteria. Maintain requirements traceability and agree priorities, dependencies and trade‑offs with accountable product and platform owners.
• Evaluate platform capabilities against agreed requirements and acceptance criteria; deliver proofs of concept and scoped implementations for continuous governance monitoring, automated evidence, dashboards, stewardship attestations and findings and remediation workflows. Directly configure evidence and metadata models, monitoring rules, workflows, escalation pathways and auditable decision records within authorised environments; coordinate specialist engineering where integrations or platform changes exceed the role’s remit.
• Use agreed acceptance criteria to guide design, build and testing, including applicable non‑functional requirements for evidence reliability, access, secure handling and maintainability. Execute configuration and integration tests, coordinate user acceptance testing and defect resolution, and maintain traceable test results and implementation evidence. Prepare release, rollback and support documentation; support approved release, user adoption and operational handover with authorised change and support owners.
• Agree outcome measures with stakeholders and track business value, adoption and control effectiveness, including evidence coverage, monitoring timeliness, attestation completion, remediation turnaround and stewardship effectiveness. Use findings and user feedback to improve capabilities and reduce manual effort.
• Report concise governance insights and prioritised improvement actions to accountable stakeholders and governance forums.
• Provide constructive second‑line challenge and facilitate agreement across business, Service Line Quality, data and technology teams on delivery, adoption and governance outcomes, resolving dependencies and escalating decisions outside delegated authority.

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities

• Exercises the judgement expected of an Associate Director where governance requirements are interpreted inconsistently, evidence is incomplete or accountability is fragmented.
• Defines the governance objective and risk, triangulates policy requirements, data and evidence, and applies a proportionate assessment methodology.
• Distinguishes isolated exceptions from systemic issues and determines whether weaknesses arise from local control gaps, unclear standards or ineffective stewardship.
• Assesses the reliability of self‑assessments, indicators, attestations and evidence and reaches defensible conclusions on control design and operating effectiveness.
• Recommends proportionate remediation and improvement priorities, constructively challenges risk‑acceptance proposals and escalates unresolved decisions to accountable owners or the appropriate governance forum.
• Assesses implementation options, platform constraints, integration dependencies, maintainability and evidence reliability; selects configuration and automation approaches within approved patterns and recommends interim monitoring and evidence arrangements where capability gaps remain.
• Delivers the design, configuration, integration, testing and implementation evidence for assigned monitoring and stewardship capabilities within delegated authority. Approved policy owners, Data Owners, Data Stewards, designated control owners, product teams and platform owners retain their respective accountabilities. The role does not assume policy ownership, Data Product Owner or Technology Product Owner accountability, enterprise architecture authority, security approval, infrastructure engineering, production change authority or production operations. It recommends or escalates decisions requiring these authorities and coordinates specialist support and operational handover.
• Maintains second‑line independence, clarifies advisory and implementation boundaries and refers formal third‑line assurance matters to Internal Audit. Identifies and escalates self‑review conflicts and arranges independent review of control‑effectiveness conclusions relating to capabilities the role has designed or implemented.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Deep expertise in modern data governance, federated operating models, Data Owner and Data Steward accountabilities and decision rights.
• Strong knowledge of data domains, critical data elements, business glossaries, metadata, lineage, catalogues, data quality and observability.
• Working knowledge of classification, access, privacy, security, records, retention, data sharing, third‑party and cross‑border data, and responsible data and AI governance.
• Expertise in policy‑to‑control traceability,