Data Governance Lead: Quality, Lineage & Observability

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary Annual Incentive

Medical Coverage

Parental Leaves

Insurance Options

Certification & Training Reimbursement

Vacation & Holidays

401K Plan

Performance Bonus

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Governance Leader to drive enterprise data governance, data quality, lineage and observability across cloud, lakehouse, data warehouse and analytics ecosystems.

You will translate business and regulatory needs into pragmatic policies, define operating models, establish metadata practices, and mentor data stewards while partnering with risk, security and engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in enterprise data governance and governance operating models.
• Hands-on knowledge of metadata, data catalog, glossary and data ownership.
• Strong understanding of data quality, profiling and issue management.
• Experience with governance tooling and cloud data platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of integrated governance, quality, lineage and observability.
• Translate needs into pragmatic policies, standards and roadmaps.
• Define operating models with accountable data owners and governance councils.
• Establish enterprise metadata, data glossary and data catalog practices.
• Design data quality lifecycle processes including profiling and monitoring.
• Define end-to-end lineage from source to reports and AI use cases.
• Establish observability monitoring for data freshness, volume and schema.
• Develop dashboards and executive reporting for data health and risk reduction.
• Evaluate and configure governance tooling and integration patterns.
• Partner with architecture, security, privacy, risk and business teams.
• Lead workshops, design reviews and production adoption.
• Mentor governance leads and data stewards; create accelerators.
• Support proposals, effort estimation and capability development.

Skills

Data Governance

Data Quality

Data Lineage

Data Observability

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Communication

Workshops

Risk Management

Consulting

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science

Tools

Collibra

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Alation

Atlan

BigID

Monte Carlo

Bigeye

Databricks Unity Catalog

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Governance Leader to drive enterprise data governance, data quality, lineage and observability across cloud, lakehouse, data warehouse and analytics ecosystems.

You will translate business and regulatory needs into pragmatic policies, define operating models, establish metadata practices, and mentor data stewards while partnering with risk, security and engineering teams.