Data Governance Lead

Analytica is seeking an experienced Data Governance Lead to implement and lead data management activities, including curating data assets, ensuring data catalog alignment, and owning the end-to-end management of data governance platform.

Requirements

• Develop and lead the organization’s data governance strategy, roadmap, and maturity model.
• Establish enterprise data governance policies, standards, and operating frameworks.
• Partner with executives, data owners, and SMEs to define governance priorities, value drivers, and decision-making authority.
• Build and mentor a data governance community including stewards, custodians, and business/data SMEs.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and stakeholder engagement for unified data architecture.
• Lead vendor assessments and tool evaluations for data cataloging, metadata management, lineage, and data quality platforms.
• Oversee tool implementation and integration with source systems, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), and analytics environments.
• Configure and govern cataloging platforms (Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, Purview, Glue Data Catalog, etc.).
• Enable data discovery, data lineage visibility, business glossaries, and steward workflows.
• Ensure consistent metadata capture across ETL pipelines, data lakes, and data warehouses
• Install, configure, test, maintain, and debug data management software, systems, and associated capabilities specifically dealing with data governance and related persona user interfaces.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Bonuses
• Employer-paid health care
• Training and development funds
• 401k match