Senior Data Governance Manager

Enterprise Data Governance Leadership

• Establish, lead, and continuously mature Catalight’s enterprise data governance program, policies, standards, and operating model
• Define governance frameworks for data quality, metadata management, lineage, stewardship, access management, retention, and lifecycle management
• Develop governance roadmaps and maturity strategies aligned with Catalight’s analytics, AI/ML, and data democratization objectives
• Establish governance councils, stewardship programs, and cross-functional governance processes across business and technical teams
• Define and maintain enterprise standards for governed data usage across analytics and AI/ML workloads

HIPAA, PII PHI Compliance

• Serve as the primary subject matter expert for HIPAA, PHI, PII, and healthcare data governance requirements within the Data & Analytics organization
• Define and enforce data classification, handling, retention, masking, and access control standards for sensitive healthcare data
• Partner with Security, Compliance, Legal, and Technology teams to ensure data governance practices align with regulatory and organizational requirements
• Support audit readiness, compliance reporting, risk assessments, and remediation efforts related to healthcare and regulated data
• Establish governance controls to ensure appropriate segregation and protection of sensitive and non-sensitive analytical environments

Snowflake Governance & Data Platform Stewardship

• Lead governance strategy and standards for Catalight’s Snowflake data platform
• Define and maintain governance standards for Snowflake object naming, role-based access controls (RBAC), data sharing, metadata management, and data lifecycle processes
• Partner with the Senior Data Architect and Senior Data Engineer to ensure governance controls are operationalized within Snowflake pipelines, data models, and access patterns
• Support implementation and governance of medallion architecture, semantic layers, curated data products, and governed self-service analytics capabilities
• Monitor and improve data quality, consistency, lineage, and usability across enterprise Snowflake environments

Metadata, Lineage & Data Stewardship

• Establish and maintain enterprise metadata standards, business glossaries, data dictionaries, and lineage documentation
• Define stewardship responsibilities and partner with business stakeholders to improve data ownership and accountability
• Enable governed self-service analytics and data discovery through standardized metadata and cataloging practices
• Drive enterprise adoption of data stewardship and governance best practices across technical and non-technical teams

AI/ML Governance & Emerging Technology Enablement

• Metadata, Lineage & Data Stewardship
• Establish and maintain enterprise metadata standards, business glossaries, data dictionaries, and lineage documentation
• Define stewardship responsibilities and partner with business stakeholders to improve data ownership and accountability
• Enable governed self-service analytics and data discovery through standardized metadata and cataloging practices
• Drive enterprise adoption of data stewardship and governance best practices across technical and non-technical teams

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with the Senior Data Architect to align governance policies with enterprise data architecture standards
• Collaborate with the Senior Data Engineer to operationalize governance controls, monitoring, and quality validation within data pipelines
• Work closely with BI Analysts and business stakeholders to improve trust, usability, and consistency of enterprise reporting assets
• Communicate governance standards, risks, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute to enterprise analytics strategy, roadmap planning, and organizational data maturity initiatives

Program Management & Continuous Improvement

• Define governance KPIs, maturity metrics, and adoption measurements
• Lead governance-related training, documentation, and organizational change management initiatives
• Establish repeatable governance workflows and operational processes that scale with organizational growth
• Continuously evaluate and improve governance practices, tooling, and operational effectiveness

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field preferred; or 8+ years of relevant experience in data governance, data management, analytics governance, or related disciplines in lieu of a degree
• Demonstrated experience leading or implementing enterprise data governance programs in regulated environments
• Strong expertise in HIPAA, PHI, PII, healthcare data privacy, and data compliance practices
• Hands-on experience governing cloud-based data platforms, preferably Snowflake
• Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, stewardship models, and data quality frameworks
• Experience supporting governance for analytics, business intelligence, and AI/ML ecosystems
• Familiarity with governance and cataloging platforms such as Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, or similar tools preferred
• Strong SQL and analytical data literacy skills
• Experience collaborating with technical engineering teams and business stakeholders in cross-functional environments
• Experience supporting healthcare, behavioral health, payer/provider, or regulated healthcare ecosystems preferred

Requests

• Must be able to communicate effectively within the work environment, read and write using the primary language within the workplace.
• Visual and auditory ability to work with clients, staff and others in the workplace continuously.
• Frequent speaking and listening (25-75%) to clients, staff, and others in the workplace.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (organized by our company values)

• Seeks to understand the underlying needs, desires, and values of colleagues.
• Proactively builds spaces for others to engage in learning and community.
• Appreciates and demonstrates collaboration across teams.
• Serves as a role model, bringing our core values to life in your work.
• Work in an exciting, fast paced high energy environment while effectively multitasking and managing day-to-day responsibilities without supervision.
• Personable; able to work comfortably with individuals at all levels within the organization.
• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills; frequent proofreading and checking documents for accuracy.

Equity informed:

• Knowledge of multiple historically excluded groupswith knowledge in I/DD (intellectual and developmental disability) communities.

• Interest in working with and elevating employee needs.
• Approaches work with a growth mindset, welcome feedback, and understand that humans all have biases and are imperfect as a baseline.
• Experience working and communicating with families.
• Sensitivity to working with an ethnically, linguistically, culturally, and economically diverse population.

Bold:

• Navigates ambiguity with an excitement for problem solving.
• Effectively manages programs from visioning to implementation + impact measure.
• Commitment to meet agreed upon deadlines on time or ahead of schedule.
• Transparent on action, pursuits, and outcomes.
• A commitment to the values of the organization while demonstrating good judgment, flexibility, patience and discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive matters.

Wellbeing driven:

• Willingness and commitment to self-reflection and re-thinking.
• Ability to understand your physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing needs with a willingness to co-create boundaries that allow you to sustainably show up and honor your humanity.
• Capacity to contribute to and help cultivate effective + sustainable wellbeing driven spaces.
• Commitment to managing a remote schedule that aligns with PST business hours, ensuring your availability supports a healthy team rhythm and effective cross-functional partnership.

Conditions of Employment

• Ability to obtain and maintain criminal record clearance through the Department of Justice (DOJ). The People & Performance Department must analyze DOJ/FBI live scan reports in accordance with applicable Federal, State, and Local laws, as well as fitness for the position.
• Ability to obtain and maintain clearance through the Office of Inspector General.
• Must attend any required training.

Time Type: Full time

Compensation

$110,000.00 - $150,000.00 Annually

The statements contained in this job description reflect general details as necessary to describe the principal functions of this job. It should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned, including work in other functional areas as deemed fit for the organization.

Catalight is an equal opportunity employer.