Data Governance Lead

Position - Data Governance Lead

Exp : 10+ Yrs

Locations : Chennai | Madurai | Coimbatore

Role Summary :

We are seeking a seasoned Data Governance Lead to drive enterprise-wide data governance, architecture, and management initiatives. This role will be pivotal in establishing data standards, ensuring data quality, and enabling secure, compliant, and value-driven data usage across the organization.

Key Responsibilities :

• Data Governance & Stewardship
• Lead the implementation of data governance frameworks, policies, and standards.
• Define and manage data ownership, stewardship roles, and accountability structures.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and privacy requirements (e.G., GDPR, SOX etc).
• Data Architecture & Modeling
• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models.
• Collaborate with business and technical teams to ensure models align with business needs.
• Promote standardization and reuse of data assets across platforms.
• Data Migration & Integration
• Lead data migration strategies for legacy systems and cloud platforms.
• Ensure data integrity, lineage, and quality during migrations.
• Work with ETL and integration teams to streamline data flows.
• Data Visualization & Analytics Enablement
• Partner with BI teams to ensure data is structured for effective visualization.
• Support dashboard and reporting initiatives with clean, well-governed data.
• Promote self-service analytics through governed data catalogs.
• Data Security & Privacy
• Collaborate with InfoSec to implement data protection controls.
• Ensure sensitive data is classified, encrypted, and accessed securely.
• Monitor and audit data access and usage patterns.
• Metadata & Lineage Management
• Implement metadata management tools and practices.
• Maintain data lineage documentation to support traceability and impact analysis.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Act as a liaison between business units, IT, and data teams.
• Educate stakeholders on data governance principles and best practices.
• Drive cultural change toward data-driven decision-making.

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