VP, Enterprise Data Platform & Governance

Mastercard; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 235,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Mastercard seeks a Vice President of Data Management Platforms to lead product management of enterprise metadata, catalog, governance, and usage/observability platforms such as Atlan.

You will own strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes, partnering with Technology to translate plans into scalable implementations and governance-enabled data products for data stewards, engineers, scientists, and analysts.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with data catalog and data governance platforms.
• Understand metadata, data cataloging, lineage, governance workflows, data products, marketplace concepts, usage/observability signals, or similar enterprise data management capabilities.
• Have advanced business product management expertise for enterprise platforms, including strategy, roadmap ownership, stakeholder alignment, prioritization, adoption, implementation partnership, and lifecycle management.
• Be able to work effectively with Technology teams to turn business, governance, and platform needs into implementable capabilities and sustainable operating models.
• Operate effectively across Data Governance, Technology, Privacy, Security, Product, and regional stakeholders, balancing usability, control, scalability, and auditability.
• Communicate clearly with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, including the ability to explain metadata, governance, platform, and context-layer concepts in business terms.
• Develop talent, set clear objectives, and create an environment where teams can deliver consistently across complex enterprise platform and governance programs.

Responsibilities

• Own the business product strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for Mastercard’s data management platform capabilities.
• Partner with Technology to translate platform strategy into scalable implementation plans, integrations, release priorities, controls, and operational support models.
• Lead the product direction for the data catalog and governance platform, and related metadata ecosystem capabilities, including connectivity expansion, metadata publication, lineage, classification, data product and marketplace integration, and transition from legacy cataloging capabilities where appropriate.
• Partner with the Platform Onboarding team to scale adoption, onboarding, training, communications, user readiness, and operational engagement across data stewards, data product owners, engineering teams, analysts, data scientists, and AI/platform teams.
• Serve Data Governance teams and data users communities as key internal customers, translating governance standards, stewardship needs, data product requirements, marketplace needs, and certification expectations into practical platform capabilities.
• Advance Mastercard’s enterprise metadata context layer by making trusted definitions, ownership, lineage, usage, certification, and governance signals available to users, platforms, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Build and lead a high-performing team responsible for platform product management, stakeholder engagement, prioritization, adoption measurement, and continuous improvement across Mastercard’s data knowledge ecosystem.

Skills

Data governance platforms

Data cataloging

Platform product management

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Atlan

Data governance tooling

Job description

Mastercard seeks a Vice President of Data Management Platforms to lead product management of enterprise metadata, catalog, governance, and usage/observability platforms such as Atlan.

You will own strategy, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes, partnering with Technology to translate plans into scalable implementations and governance-enabled data products for data stewards, engineers, scientists, and analysts.