Data Governance Lead

Insight Global; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global partners with a student transportation client to fill a Data Governance Lead role. You will own the enterprise data governance program, including data quality, stewardship and MDM, and define the single source of truth for core domains.

Collaborate with domain owners, data engineering and analytics to strengthen the stewardship model, advance quality metrics and enable end-to-end governance; remain hands-on with profiling, catalog and lineage tooling, and modernizing policies and

Qualifications

• 8+ years data management experience with governance leadership.
• Proven improvements in data quality and MDM outcomes.
• Ability to modernize inherited processes, tooling, and operating models.
• Hands-on experience with profiling, quality rules, and root-cause remediation.
• Federated governance with defined domain ownership and steward network.
• MDM: single source of truth for core domains, matching, survivorship, and golden records.
• Experience with data catalog, glossary, and lineage tooling (Atlan, Purview, or similar).
• Strong SQL and cloud data governance in Snowflake, Postgres, dbt, and BI tooling.
• Experience implementing an MDM platform and data contracts/product ownership.
• Background in data observability/testing tools and data privacy familiarity.
• Experience using AI to accelerate glossary curation and rule development.
• CDMP/DAMA-DMBOK or change-management experience a plus.

Skills

Data governance leadership

Data quality

Master Data Management (MDM)

Data stewardship

Federated governance

SSOT definition

Quality rules & profiling

Data catalog & lineage tooling

SQL

Cloud platforms (Snowflake, Postgres)

MDM implementation

Data observability & testing tools

Data contracts/product ownership

Industry knowledge (transportation/log

Data privacy familiarity

AI-assisted glossary/documentation

CDMP / DAMA-DMBOK or change mgmt

Tools

Atlan

Purview

Snowflake

Postgres

dbt

Power BI

Job description

Job Description

A student transportation client is seeking a Data Governance Lead to take ownership of their established enterprise data governance function. This is an existing role that is currently vacant, and the client is looking for a proven governance leader who will bring new ideas and energy to a program already in motion rather than simply maintain it. This resource will own the data quality, stewardship, and master data management programs that make enterprise data trustworthy, defining the single source of truth (SSOT) for core business domains and holding the organization to it. They will partner with business domain owners, data engineering, and analytics teams to strengthen the stewardship operating model, raise the bar on data quality measurement and root-cause remediation, and govern master and reference data end to end. This lead will remain hands‑on with profiling, quality rules, catalog and lineage tooling, and MDM design while modernizing the policies, forums, and metrics that sustain governance.

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Skills and Requirements

• 8+ years of data management experience, including 4+ years leading a data governance, data quality, or MDM program with direct accountability for its outcomes
• Proven governance leadership, not solely participation, with measurable improvements in data quality and master data accuracy
• Demonstrated ability to bring new ideas and momentum to an established program, including modernizing inherited processes, tooling, and operating models
• Deep data quality experience, including profiling, defining quality dimensions (completeness, accuracy, timeliness, validity, uniqueness), building automated quality rules and monitoring, and driving root‑cause remediation with source system owners
• Proven data stewardship management experience in a federated model - defining domain ownership and steward roles, standing up a steward network across business functions, and sustaining its participation over time without line authority over its members
• Works with Stewards to manage Definitions and rules, exception queue, data quality, onboarding support, governance participation
• Hands‑on Master Data Management (MDM) experience establishing a single source of truth for core domains, including matching and survivorship rules, golden record design, hierarchy and reference data management, and reconciliation across source systems
• Experience with data catalog, glossary, and lineage tooling (Atlan, Purview, or similar)
• Strong SQL and hands‑on experience governing data in a modern cloud platform (Snowflake, Postgres, dbt, and Power BI or equivalents)
• Experience implementing an MDM platform
• Experience with data observability and testing tooling (Atlan, Soda, dbt tests, etc)
• Experience establishing data contracts, data product ownership, or federated governance models
• Transportation, logistics, or fleet industry experience across customer, location, employee, asset, and contract master data
• Familiarity with data privacy or other regulated‑population data handling
• Experience using generative AI to accelerate glossary curation, documentation, and data quality rule development
• Data governance certifications (CDMP / DAMA-DMBOK) or change management experience (Lean, Six Sigma)