Head of Data Governance & Enablement Platforms

Global Payments; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Bonuses & equity

Wellness Week

Paid time off

Job summary

Global Payments seeks a visionary Director of Data Governance & Enablement Platforms to build and operate enterprise data foundations. You will own the strategy for Data Catalog, Glossary, Data Dictionary, and Lineage, plus MDM/RDM, Data Quality, and profiling platforms.

You will drive self-service, automation, and governance across the data lifecycle while leading a high-performing team of platform engineers and product managers.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Data Management, Data Governance Technologies, Data Platforms, Data Engineering, or related technology leadership roles.
• 5+ years leading enterprise-scale implementations of Data Governance, Metadata Management, MDM, Data Quality, or Data Platform initiatives.
• Proven experience implementing and operating enterprise Data Catalog, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, MDM, RDM, and Data Quality platforms.
• Deep expertise with leading governance and metadata technologies such as Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Informatica, Reltio, or equivalent solutions.
• Extensive experience designing and implementing enterprise Master Data Management and reference data solutions.
• Strong expertise in metadata management, business glossaries, semantic models, data lineage, classification, and cataloging capabilities.
• Demonstrated success implementing enterprise data quality frameworks, observability capabilities, profiling solutions, and quality management processes.
• Experience implementing governance workflow automation, issue management, findings management, or stewardship, in support of enterprise governance programs.
• Experience operating governance and enablement capabilities in cloud based data environments.
• Strong understanding of modern data platforms, lakehouses, data warehouses, analytics ecosystems, and data product architectures.
• Working knowledge of regulatory, compliance, privacy, and security requirements within highly regulated environments.
• Proven ability to partner with governance organizations to operationalize policy through technology and automation.
• Demonstrated experience leading platform engineering, product management, or shared services organizations.
• Strong product mindset with experience managing technology platforms as products serving internal customers.
• Exceptional communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes across complex, matrixed organizations.
• Proven experience building, developing, and leading high performing technology teams.
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field required.

Responsibilities

• Own enterprise strategy, roadmap, investment planning, and adoption of Data Governance & Enablement Platforms.
• Lead the vision, implementation, modernization, and operation of enterprise Data Catalog/Business Glossary, Data Dictionary, Metadata Management, Data Lineage, Master Data Management (MDM), Reference Data Management (RDM), Data Quality, and Data Profiling platforms.
• Establish governance enablement capabilities as enterprise platform products with clear business outcomes, service offerings, adoption targets, and reliability objectives.
• Develop platform roadmaps aligned to enterprise Data, Analytics, and AI strategies.
• Drive platform standardization, simplification, scalability, and automation across the enterprise.
• Establish platform operating models, service management processes, SLAs, SLOs, and support frameworks.
• Lead platform and technology decisions, including build, buy, and partner evaluations with clear business and technical rationale.
• Manage platform budgets, vendor relationships, licensing strategies, and technology investments.

Skills

Data governance

Platform leadership

Metadata management

Data catalog

MDM/RDM

Data quality

Data lineage

Cloud data platforms

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Product mindset

Budget & vendor mgmt

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or related field

Tools

Collibra

Alation

Atlan

Informatica

Reltio

Job description

Global Payments seeks a visionary Director of Data Governance & Enablement Platforms to build and operate enterprise data foundations. You will own the strategy for Data Catalog, Glossary, Data Dictionary, and Lineage, plus MDM/RDM, Data Quality, and profiling platforms.

You will drive self-service, automation, and governance across the data lifecycle while leading a high-performing team of platform engineers and product managers.