Director of Data Management & Governance

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Spark Foundry, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks a Director of Data Management Lead to own end‑to‑end data governance and backend architecture across media and pharmaceutical data. You will lead cross‑functional teams, set standards, and drive data quality and security initiatives to enable reporting, measurement, and advanced analytics.

You will partner with privacy, security, and client teams, translating complex requirements into scalable data solutions while guiding offshore delivery and

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in data management, data engineering, analytics engineering, media data operations, or data governance within an agency, pharmaceutical, or similarly complex environment.
• Demonstrated leadership of client‑facing data programs, with the ability to own the overall approach, facilitate technical and functional decisions, and communicate risks and recommendations.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake, SQL, Python, data modeling, ETL/ELT, orchestration, testing, monitoring, and production support.
• Deep understanding of media and marketing data across digital and offline channels, including campaign hierarchies, taxonomies, platform extracts, delivery metrics, and reporting dependencies.
• Proven experience establishing data governance, quality controls, reconciliation processes, error tracking, lineage, metadata, and operational SLAs.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical designs and to review or build data flows when delivery requires hands‑on support.
• Strong understanding of privacy, security, data handling, auditability, and compliance principles in regulated environments.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, documentation, problem‑solving, and communication skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own data governance operating model across media, measurement, and pharmaceutical data domains.
• Lead ingestion, validation, reconciliation, monitoring, and delivery of media data across sources.
• Guide client, media, analytics, engineering, privacy, security, and offshore teams through clear requirements and RACIs.
• Provide technical direction for scalable backend architecture in Databricks and Snowflake.
• Translate reporting and analytics needs into data models, mappings, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead by example with hands‑on SQL, Python, notebooks, and data pipelines.
• Promote data engineering best practices for modularity, testing, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Data leadership

Data governance

SQL

Python

Stakeholder management

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

ETL/ELT

CI/CD

Job description

Spark Foundry, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks a Director of Data Management Lead to own end‑to‑end data governance and backend architecture across media and pharmaceutical data. You will lead cross‑functional teams, set standards, and drive data quality and security initiatives to enable reporting, measurement, and advanced analytics.

You will partner with privacy, security, and client teams, translating complex requirements into scalable data solutions while guiding offshore delivery and