Enterprise Data Governance Lead

This role will help lead managed service providers and mentor Data Governance Center of Excellence (CoE) team members, track performance, and provide transparent reporting on stewardship progress, risks, and key performance indicators (KPIs). The position requires strong cross-functional partnership with business, IT, Security, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and other stakeholders to ensure trusted, compliant, and well-governed enterprise data assets that support analytics, AI readiness, and regulatory obligations. Essential Functions Of The Job Act as a SME for enterprise data governance and data stewardship, contributing to governance operating models, policies, standards, procedures, and best practices. Lead and execute domain onboarding into the federated data governance model, including role enablement, training, and adoption of governance processes and tools. Manage data governance projects and oversee execution of key initiatives, including: Enterprise data classification and tagging aligned to the DOJ Data Security Rule Integrated processes and potentially alternative platforms (Informatica, ServiceNow, Jira) Influence and drive adoption of data governance and stewardship practices without direct authority by partnering with cross-functional and domain teams to embed governance into day-to-day execution. Build and maintain trusted relationships across business, technology, security, legal, and compliance stakeholders to align on shared outcomes, priorities, and acceptable trade-offs. Resolve conflicts and competing priorities by facilitating structured decision discussions, and aligning stakeholders on viable governance approaches that balance regulatory risk, data quality, and delivery timelines. Report regularly on team performance, initiative status, risks, and outcomes to the Data Governance Lead. Partner with platform owners and architects to ensure effective use of data governance platforms to support stewardship workflows, metadata management, and regulatory compliance. Author data policies, processes, and procedures per best-practiced data management standards to support the data governance program, data governance initiatives, and data projects. Pilot new approaches to data governance, gathering feedback to refine and optimize processes. Monitor and report on the effectiveness of data governance initiatives, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement. Author data policies, processes, and procedures per best-practiced data management standards to support the data governance program, data governance initiatives, and data projects. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years of experience in data governance, data stewardship, or enterprise data management roles. Demonstrated experience acting as a data governance and stewardship SME within a federated, matrixed, or enterprise-scale operating model. Proven ability to influence outcomes without formal authority, evidenced by successful adoption of governance processes, standards, or platforms across multiple domains or business units. Experienced driving adoption of governance processes, tools, or standards through persuasion, collaboration, and credibility, rather than mandate. Hands-on experience with enterprise data governance platforms (Informatica IDMC/CDGC/CDQ/CDMP), Atlan, Alation, or equivalent tools and setting those up for optimal adoption by domain. Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to navigate differing incentives across business, IT, security, legal, and compliance functions. Experience mentoring or managing team members, including performance tracking and coaching. #J-18808-Ljbffr