Senior Data Governance Lead for Enterprise AI/ML

Overture Partners; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

401(k) starting day one

Life & disability insurance

Sick time

Job summary

Overture Partners is seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead to establish and scale an enterprise‑wide governance program supporting an AI/ML and data modernization strategy. You will build governance frameworks, improve data quality, and drive adoption across business and technology teams.

The role requires 5+ years in data governance, strong SQL skills, and hands‑on experience with metadata management, data catalogs, and governance processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data governance, enterprise data management, or related disciplines.
• Strong SQL proficiency with the ability to analyze, validate, and investigate enterprise data.
• Experience developing or implementing governance policies, standards, controls, and operating procedures.
• Hands‑on experience with data inventories, metadata standards, classification, tagging, ownership, and catalog management.
• Understanding of data quality controls, lineage tracking, data lifecycle management, and governance validation processes.
• Proven ability to partner with business stakeholders, IT, data engineering, analytics, and risk or compliance teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish scalable governance practices that improve data transparency, accountability, accessibility, and trust across enterprise systems.
• Support ML model governance by implementing documentation, metadata, review, approval, and production deployment controls.
• Improve enterprise data catalogs through standardized metadata, ownership assignments, certification processes, and asset lifecycle management.
• Drive governance adoption by creating practical standards, training materials, and processes that support business and technical users.
• Strengthen responsible AI practices by supporting data privacy, regulatory compliance, model governance, and risk management initiatives.
• Collaborate with data engineering, IT, analytics, and business teams to resolve governance gaps and support enterprise data modernization.

Skills

Data governance

SQL proficiency

Governance policies

Metadata management

Data catalogs

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

SageMaker

Python

MLOps

Job description

Overture Partners is seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead to establish and scale an enterprise‑wide governance program supporting an AI/ML and data modernization strategy. You will build governance frameworks, improve data quality, and drive adoption across business and technology teams.

The role requires 5+ years in data governance, strong SQL skills, and hands‑on experience with metadata management, data catalogs, and governance processes.