Data Governance Lead — Enterprise Metadata & AI Steward

Empower; United States; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Generous paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Lead Analyst to advance its enterprise data governance and knowledge management strategy. You will partner with risk, legal and technology teams to implement frameworks, improve data quality, and ensure audit-ready controls across structured and unstructured data.

You will maintain metadata catalogs (Collibra), lineages, and data quality metrics, support regulatory compliance (CCPA, GLBA, ERISA, SEC, FINRA), and produce governance scorecards and dashboards.

Qualifications

• 7 to 10 years of experience in data governance, data management, or related disciplines.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience with metadata management, data cataloging, and lineage tools such as Collibra.
• Familiarity with data quality frameworks and observability tools.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in SQL and data platform governance (Snowflake).

Responsibilities

• Execute and operationalize enterprise data governance and knowledge management frameworks.
• Support data stewardship activities across business domains.
• Maintain metadata, catalog, and lineage capabilities with Collibra.
• Monitor data quality metrics and SLAs.
• Coordinate data quality issue identification and remediation.
• Assist in governance within data product lifecycles for privacy and lineage.
• Support regulatory compliance efforts (CCPA, GLBA, ERISA, SEC, FINRA) with documentation.
• Contribute to governance of unstructured data and knowledge assets.
• Partner with Risk, Legal, and Technology to support data usage controls.
• Prepare governance reporting, scorecards, and KPI dashboards.

Skills

Data governance

SQL proficiency

Stakeholder management

Data quality

Metadata management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Collibra

Snowflake

Job description

Empower is seeking a Lead Analyst to advance its enterprise data governance and knowledge management strategy. You will partner with risk, legal and technology teams to implement frameworks, improve data quality, and ensure audit-ready controls across structured and unstructured data.

You will maintain metadata catalogs (Collibra), lineages, and data quality metrics, support regulatory compliance (CCPA, GLBA, ERISA, SEC, FINRA), and produce governance scorecards and dashboards.