Head of Data Governance & Quality Enablement

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 213,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals seeks a Director of Data Governance, Quality & Enablement to lead enterprise data governance, quality, metadata, and lineage initiatives. You will partner with IT, Data Engineering, Data Products, and Compliance to embed governance into data pipelines and products.

You will build standards, enable self-service analytics, and establish measurable data-product health, affecting analytics, automation, and AI use cases across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in data governance, enterprise data management, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years in leadership roles building or scaling enterprise data governance capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of data quality, metadata management, data cataloging, lineage, and data products.

Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year Data Governance, Quality & Enablement technology roadmap.
• Lead implementation of enterprise metadata, catalog, and lineage capabilities.
• Embed governance and quality controls into data pipelines and data products.
• Partner with IT Security, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, and Data Owners to ensure controls and policies are followed.
• Establish measurable standards and KPIs for data product health and trust.

Skills

Data governance

Leadership

Data quality

Metadata management

Data cataloging

Stakeholder management

Governance by design

Tools

Alation

Power BI

Microsoft Purview

Azure

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals seeks a Director of Data Governance, Quality & Enablement to lead enterprise data governance, quality, metadata, and lineage initiatives. You will partner with IT, Data Engineering, Data Products, and Compliance to embed governance into data pipelines and products.

You will build standards, enable self-service analytics, and establish measurable data-product health, affecting analytics, automation, and AI use cases across the organization.