Data Governance Leader: Drive Trusted Data & Impact

NetApp; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

NetApp seeks a Data Governance Lead to partner with business stakeholders to implement, optimize, and mature governance best practices across applications, analytics, AI use cases, data platforms, and enterprise processes. The role requires leadership across a distributed stewardship community and the ability to translate governance into practical, trusted outcomes.

The successful candidate will build partnerships, drive adoption, and advance data quality, with a focus on credible, data-driven

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of progressive experience in data governance, data management, analytics enablement, enterprise applications, business transformation, or a related field within complex global organizations.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Certifications in data governance, analytics, metadata management, cloud data platforms, change leadership, or enterprise applications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Governance Execution: Implement and continuously improve practical governance processes that strengthen business operations, analytics, reporting, AI readiness, and application outcomes.
• Business Application and Analytics Enablement: Partner with application owners, analytics teams, data engineers, and business leaders to embed governance requirements into platforms, integrations, reporting solutions, and decision-making processes.
• Stewardship Community Leadership: Guide, coach, train, and mentor a distributed community of data owners and stewards; clarify roles, reinforce accountability, and create reusable practices that enable consistent execution.
• Stakeholder Management and Influence: Build trusted relationships across functions and levels, facilitate alignment, resolve competing priorities, and lead outcomes without formal authority.
• Communication and Evangelism: Communicate governance concepts in clear business language, develop compelling messages and learning materials, and champion the value of trusted data throughout the organization.
• Policy, Standards, and Metadata: Apply and evolve enterprise policies, standards, business glossaries, metadata, lineage, controls, stewardship roles, and approval workflows across critical data and applications.
• Data Quality and Continuous Improvement: Lead the definition of data quality rules and measures, facilitate root-cause analysis and remediation, and use evidence to improve end-to-end processes and adoption.
• Cross-Functional Advisory: Serve as a credible advisor who can rapidly grasp business needs and technical architectures, identify practical tradeoffs, and guide teams toward scalable, sustainable solutions.

Skills

Stakeholder Leadership

Communication and Evangelism

Coaching and Community Enablement

Leadership Without Formal Authority

Business and Technology Acumen

Analytics and Business Applications

Governance and Metadata Practices

Enterprise Platform Experience

Ways of Working

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, information systems, data management, computer science, engineering, or a related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Oracle Cloud ERP

Salesforce

SAP CRM

Snowflake

Metadata management platforms

Job description

NetApp seeks a Data Governance Lead to partner with business stakeholders to implement, optimize, and mature governance best practices across applications, analytics, AI use cases, data platforms, and enterprise processes. The role requires leadership across a distributed stewardship community and the ability to translate governance into practical, trusted outcomes.

The successful candidate will build partnerships, drive adoption, and advance data quality, with a focus on credible, data-driven