Data Governance Lead: Quality, Automation & Insights

Southern California Edison (SCE); Irwindale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking a Data Governance Advisor to lead enterprise data governance, data quality, and automation initiatives. This highly technical role blends coding, analytics, and governance strategy to deliver scalable solutions that improve compliance and customer outcomes.

You will develop automated monitoring, data quality controls, and advanced reporting, partnering with business and IT to solve complex data challenges while ensuring data reliability for critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience using SAP HANA, Snowflake, SQL Server, Python, or comparable data management and analytics platforms.
• Experience developing SQL-based solutions, data models, reports, or automated monitoring capabilities.
• Knowledge of data governance, data stewardship, data quality management, metadata management, and data lineage best practices.
• Experience supporting regulatory, audit, risk management, or compliance-related data initiatives.
• Utility, energy, or highly regulated industry experience.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and data issues effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and collaborating with stakeholders to define business requirements, technical solutions, and implementation strategies.
• Experience designing and implementing process improvements, automation solutions, and data quality controls.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Tracks and analyzes performance, providing feedback and recommendations on methods to improve quality. Drives quality assurance improvement plans and uses in-depth knowledge of best practices to implement improvements, facilitating continuous improvements by assessing process and product measures.
• Oversees, participates in the design, development, and execution of and ensures data-related work is performed according to company policies and procedures.
• Develops training curriculum and educates all levels of the organization in process and performance improvement methods and tools.
• Provides support to strategy and policy development and ensures delivery within area of responsibility. Identifies opportunities for process enhancements across the organization and participates in process improvement initiatives.
• Evaluates best practices of data gathering, record maintenance and documentation within the industry, identifies compliance risks and implements risk mitigation to enable innovative solutions.
• Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to replace outdated processes and assesses their feasibility.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Job description

Southern California Edison (SCE) is seeking a Data Governance Advisor to lead enterprise data governance, data quality, and automation initiatives. This highly technical role blends coding, analytics, and governance strategy to deliver scalable solutions that improve compliance and customer outcomes.

You will develop automated monitoring, data quality controls, and advanced reporting, partnering with business and IT to solve complex data challenges while ensuring data reliability for critical