Lead, Data Enablement & Governance

Guardian Life; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Guardian seeks a Group Data Enablement Lead to drive enterprise data management and governance across Group value streams. You will translate data strategy into actionable roadmaps, embed data product practices, and partner with senior leaders to enable high‑value AI use cases.

With 10+ years in data roles, you will own data quality, semantics, lineage, and trust while delivering measurable business impact and governance at scale.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data management, governance, analytics in large enterprises.
• Translate business strategy and use cases into data product requirements and execution plans.
• Strong understanding of data product practices including ownership, lifecycle, quality, semantics, and consumption readiness.
• Ability to partner with business leaders to identify high-value data and AI use cases aligned to outcomes.
• Proven experience embedding data practices into business delivery, not just a centralized control function.
• Experience leading Data Product Owners and Data Stewards in a matrixed environment.
• Experience resolving cross-team data dependencies and tradeoffs across business, analytics, and technology.

Responsibilities

• Operationalize enterprise data management, governance, and AI-readiness practices within Group value streams.
• Partner with Group business leaders to identify, frame, and prioritize high-value business and AI use cases; translate into data product requirements.
• Embed data product practices into Group execution with clear ownership, lifecycle management, quality, semantics, lineage, and consumption readiness.
• Translate enterprise data strategy, policies, standards, and operating model expectations into actionable roadmaps and priorities.
• Resolve cross-stream data dependencies and tradeoffs impacting trust, delivery timelines, and reuse.
• Ensure upstream data supports analytics, BI, applications, and AI use cases by design.
• Partner with Platforms to embed governance, quality, and protection capabilities into Group workflows.
• Communicate data strategy, priorities, risks, and tradeoffs to Group leadership for informed decisions.
• Track and report progress and realized value of Group data initiatives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for Group data management and governance execution issues.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Analytics

Data product practices

Executive communication

Stakeholder partnership

Tools

AWS

Databricks

Snowflake

GCP

Collibra

Reltio

Job description

Guardian seeks a Group Data Enablement Lead to drive enterprise data management and governance across Group value streams. You will translate data strategy into actionable roadmaps, embed data product practices, and partner with senior leaders to enable high‑value AI use cases.

With 10+ years in data roles, you will own data quality, semantics, lineage, and trust while delivering measurable business impact and governance at scale.