VP, Utilities Data Owner & Governance Lead

Aumni; Wilmington (DE); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health support

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Next Frontier Capital seeks a Vice President, Utilities Data Owner Lead to define governance, strategy, and delivery of trusted data across the Digital Utilities product. You will ensure data is fit for purpose and delivered with strong quality controls to support analytics and reporting.

You will partner with product, design, and technology leaders to build governed data products, manage metadata, lineage, access controls, and data risk reduction while driving scale for analytics and AI use

Qualifications

• Six years of experience in a data-related field delivering data products, data programs, or data technology solutions across multiple workstreams.
• Knowledge of data management, data engineering, pipelines, modeling, architecture, and governance on cloud platforms and/or big data technologies.
• Experience working with metadata, taxonomy, measurement definitions, data quality practices, access controls, lineage, and fit-for-use standards.
• Experience partnering across multiple functions to deliver outcomes on shared timelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to senior audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the data strategy and roadmap for the Digital Utilities product, delivering governed, reusable data products that support business objectives, operations, advanced analytics, and reporting.
• Partner with product, design, and technology leaders to ensure data is fit for purpose and supports analytics, machine learning, and generative AI use cases through clear metadata, lineage, access rules, quality controls, and business context.
• Identify and prioritize critical data domains and elements within the product, ensuring they are documented, classified, and discoverable.
• Establish expectations for data accuracy, completeness, and timeliness, and coordinate delivery partners to meet data quality requirements and resolve issues.
• Direct processes to identify, monitor, and mitigate data risks across the lifecycle, including data protection, retention and destruction, storage, use, and quality.
• Drive execution against milestones and KPIs, build relationships across business, technology, analytics, operations, risk, and controls, and lead or coach team members.

Skills

Data governance

Data products

Stakeholder management

Cloud platforms

Metadata

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Python

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

Next Frontier Capital seeks a Vice President, Utilities Data Owner Lead to define governance, strategy, and delivery of trusted data across the Digital Utilities product. You will ensure data is fit for purpose and delivered with strong quality controls to support analytics and reporting.

You will partner with product, design, and technology leaders to build governed data products, manage metadata, lineage, access controls, and data risk reduction while driving scale for analytics and AI use