Program Manager (Data Governance Exp)

IVID TEK INC; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

IVID TEK INC seeks a seasoned Program Manager with Data Governance experience to lead a cross-domain governance program, manage the 24-month data roadmap, and coordinate councils and workshops. The role emphasizes policy development, Alation-based governance, and stakeholder communications across engineering, data, and business teams.

You will drive Data Owner designation, onboard data stewards to Alation, and ensure timely data quality and issue resolution while maintaining program KPIs and SLA

Qualifications

• CDMP certification required at hire or commitment to certify within 12 months (DAMA DMBOK2 proficiency).
• 7+ years in data management, data governance, or enterprise program management.
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise data catalog (Alation strongly preferred; Collibra or Informatica Axon, Atlan acceptable).
• Demonstrated experience running a governance program across multiple business domains.
• Strong written communication: able to write data policies, governance playbooks, and executive briefing materials.
• Experience facilitating workshops with business and technical stakeholders — capable of running a DQ dimension workshop with a domain VP and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the program plan and track milestones against the 24-month roadmap.
• Prepare the monthly Council scorecard pack: pull KPI metrics, draft narrative, identify escalations, present slides.
• Coordinate the monthly DG Council: agenda, pre-reads, domain escalations, policy review items, action tracking.
• Own the program communications calendar: all-hands kickoff, domain workshop scheduling, steward onboarding, literacy curriculum assignment.
• Lead the Data domain pilot end-to-end: Data Owner designation, Steward onboarding, Alation orientation, domain workshop delivery.
• Build the domain onboarding playbook from the pilot for remaining domains.
• Drive Data Owner designation across data domains with Jira coordination and 30-day commitment tracking.
• Onboard Data Stewards to Alation: enroll in Alation Academy, run orientation, track 6-week curation ramp.
• Manage the data issue intake process: own P1/P2/P3 Jira queue, track SLA adherence, escalate as needed.
• Draft policy and standards, maintain policy register, and own the domain governance playbooks.
• Configure the governance workflow in Alation with the catalog engineer and monitor catalog coverage monthly.
• Coordinate AI data governance in Alation: ensure model cards, lineage, and AI governance checklist completion.

Skills

Program management

Data governance

Workshops facilitation

Communication

Jira governance

Alation catalog

Policy writing

Stakeholder engagement

Education

CDMP certification or commitment

DAMA DMBOK2 knowledge

Tools

Alation

Jira

Collibra

Informatica Axon

Databricks Unity Catalog

Job description

Program Manager with Data Governance Exp.

Program Operations:

• Own the program plan: maintain the Jira project board, track milestones against the 24-month roadmap, flag risks and blockers to the DGO Lead weekly.
• Prepare the monthly Council scorecard pack: pull the KPI metrics, draft the narrative, identify escalations, and present the supporting slide — DGO Lead presents, DG Program Lead owns the content.
• Coordinate the monthly DG Council: agenda, pre-reads, domain escalations, policy review items, and action tracking.
• Own the program communications calendar: all-hands kickoff, domain workshop scheduling, steward onboarding, literacy curriculum assignment.

Domain Onboarding & Governance Activation:

• Lead the Data domain pilot end-to-end: Data Owner designation, Steward onboarding, Alation orientation, domain workshop delivery (co-facilitated with Literacy Academy), DQ dimension workshop with the DQ Engineer.
• Build the domain onboarding playbook from the pilot: the repeatable template used for all other remaining domains in Phases.
• Drive Data Owner designation across all data domains: coordinate with each domain product owner, manage the designation form process in Jira, track completion against the 30-day Council commitment
• Onboard Data Stewards to Alation: coordinate Alation Academy enrollment, run the Steward orientation session, track the 6-week curation ramp for each new Steward.
• Manage the data issue intake process: own the P1/P2/P3 Jira queue, ensure SLA adherence is tracked for program KPI, maintain and follow escalate process.

Policy & Standards:

• Draft all program domains data policies for DGO Lead review and Council approval — starting with the key foundational policies.
• Maintain the policy register: version control, review schedule, annual renewal coordination.
• Own the data classification policy: work with InfoSec to ensure Alation sensitivity tags align to the Unity Catalog RBAC tiers.
• Author the domain governance playbooks: per-domain documentation of Data Owner, Steward, DPO, DQ thresholds, glossary scope, and AI data governance checklist process.

Alation Governance Layer:

• Work with the Alation Catalog Engineer to configure the governance workflow in Alation: approval chains, steward assignment, policy publication, DQ Certificate issuance process.
• Own the business glossary governance: term proposal workflow, approval routing, publication standards.
• Monitor Alation catalog coverage monthly: track program KPI (catalog coverage %) across all domains, identify gaps, and assign remediation to the relevant Steward or DPO.
• Coordinate AI data governance in Alation: ensure model cards are registered, lineage is documented from source to model input, and the AI data governance checklist is completed for each active AI use case.

Qualifications:

Required:

• CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) required at hire or firm commitment to certify within 12 months — DAMA DMBOK2 proficiency is the practitioner foundation for this role.
• 7+ years in data management, data governance, or enterprise program management.
• Hands-on experience with an enterprise data catalog (Alation strongly preferred; Collibra or Informatica Axon, Atlan acceptable).
• Demonstrated experience running a governance program across multiple business domains — not just one department.
• Strong written communication: able to write data policies, governance playbooks, and executive briefing materials that are clear, precise, and stakeholder-appropriate.
• Experience facilitating workshops with business and technical stakeholders — able to run a DQ dimension workshop with a domain VP and a team of engineers in the same room.

Preferred:

• Health plan or healthcare payor experience — HEDIS, Stars, Medicare Advantage, HIPAA.
• Experience with Jira for governance workflow management (not just engineering sprint tracking).
• Familiarity with Great Expectations or equivalent DQ framework.
• Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog or equivalent data access governance layer.
• CDMP Practitioner or Master level.

Key Competencies:

• Systematic thinker — able to see the full data domain program and still execute the day-to-day pilot detail simultaneously.
• Clear writer — governance only works if the policies and playbooks are understood; this person writes so non-data people get it.
• Follows through — the single biggest failure mode in governance programs is well-designed commitments that nobody tracks; this role exists to prevent that.
• Comfortable with ambiguity — this program is new; the DG Program Lead regularly encounters situations the playbook doesn't yet cover.