Hands-on Data Governance & Quality Lead, IT

JCW Group; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

JCW Group is partnering with a leading financial services firm in the Dallas–Fort Worth area to hire an IT Data Governance & Data Quality Manager. This hands-on role builds and runs the data governance practice, ensuring data is accurate, well-defined, and audit-ready across IT, business, security, and compliance.

You will lead data ownership, stewardship, and lifecycle management, design data quality programs, and manage metadata, classification, and regulatory alignment with SOX, GLBA, and

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience in data governance, data quality, or metadata management in financial services or regulated industries.
• Proven experience building or operating a data governance framework.
• Hands-on with data governance and cataloging tools (Collibra, Alation, Informatica, Purview).
• Strong data quality practices: profiling, rules, monitoring, issue management.
• Experience with data classification and regulatory/audit requirements (SOX, GLBA, BCBS 239).
• Working SQL to profile and validate data.
• Excellent communication across business, IT, security, compliance.
• Preferred: DAMA CDMP or similar certs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the firm's data governance program within IT, establishing policies and lifecycle management.
• Design and run data quality management processes with metrics and dashboards.
• Own metadata management across enterprise, glossary, data lineage.
• Collaborate with data owners to validate definitions and accountability.
• Partner with Information Security on data classification and handling controls.
• Work with Compliance and Internal Audit to meet regulatory and audit requirements.
• Implement and administer data governance and catalog tooling and promote adoption.
• Report governance maturity and remediation progress to leadership.
• Manage cross-team priorities with influence.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Metadata management

SQL

Data classification

Communication

Self-starter

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Informatica

Microsoft Purview

Job description

JCW Group is partnering with a leading financial services firm in the Dallas–Fort Worth area to hire an IT Data Governance & Data Quality Manager. This hands-on role builds and runs the data governance practice, ensuring data is accurate, well-defined, and audit-ready across IT, business, security, and compliance.

You will lead data ownership, stewardship, and lifecycle management, design data quality programs, and manage metadata, classification, and regulatory alignment with SOX, GLBA, and