Senior Data Governance Leader - Compliance & Analytics

Legend Biotech US; Bridgewater (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Legend Biotech US is seeking a Sr. Manager, Data Governance to establish and maintain enterprise data governance, quality, and regulatory compliance across the organization. This role partners with IT, compliance, and business units to embed governance into workflows and systems.

The ideal candidate will lead policy development, data catalogs, and privacy controls, ensuring data availability, integrity, and secure use in line with GxP, SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, and related standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Data Science, Business Administration, or related field.
• Advanced degree preferred, especially with coursework in data management or analytics.
• Certifications in data governance or related fields are a plus (CDMP, DGSP, CIPT, CISSP, CDPSE).
• 5+ years of relevant experience in data governance, data management, or related data-centric roles; pharma/biotech experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish and refine governance policies, standards, and procedures to ensure secure, effective data management; align with regulations.
• Set metrics to maintain data accuracy, consistency, and completeness; drive issue resolution.
• Maintain data catalogs and dictionaries; use tools for metadata documentation and lineage tracking.
• Enforce privacy and security regulations via audits and controls.
• Collaborate with IT to apply access, encryption, and DLP policies across Azure and AWS; use Purview for automated compliance monitoring.
• Liaise with technical and business teams to define standards and resolve governance issues.
• Deliver programs to build data literacy and stewardship across staff.
• Monitor KPIs and report to leadership; drive continuous governance improvements.
• Oversee Data Demand end-to-end and Data Catalog/Inventory processes; align with Data Strategy.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Analytics literacy

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management or related

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

OneTrust

Microsoft Purview

Azure

AWS

Job description

Legend Biotech US is seeking a Sr. Manager, Data Governance to establish and maintain enterprise data governance, quality, and regulatory compliance across the organization. This role partners with IT, compliance, and business units to embed governance into workflows and systems.

The ideal candidate will lead policy development, data catalogs, and privacy controls, ensuring data availability, integrity, and secure use in line with GxP, SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, and related standards.