Senior Data Governance Engineer

Job Purpose / Summary :

The Data Governance Lead will be responsible for establishing, implementing, and maintaining data governance policies, frameworks, and processes to ensure data quality, compliance, and security within the bank. This role requires strong leadership, collaboration, and expertise in data governance best practices, regulatory requirements, and data management frameworks. The ideal candidate will work closely with data stewards, IT, risk, compliance, and business teams to drive data governance initiatives and ensure effective data management practices.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Establish and implement Data Governance / Quality policies, processes, and standards aligned with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Define data quality metrics, implement data profiling techniques, and monitor data integrity cross the organization.
• Ensure adherence to banking regulations in India such as DPDPA, IRDAI, and other relevant data privacy and security standards.
• Strong understanding of data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA DMBOK, DCAM) and data management best practices.
• Execute standard on boarding of technical and business metadata into Custom / Product environments, ensuring the population of data lineage and linkage between the technical and business metadata.
• Participate in the development and implementation of enterprise data Governance standards while assessing, monitoring and directing data management division
• Participate in training sessions for business and technology partners covering enterprise metadata standards, guidelines, and processes
• Participate in product evaluations and POCs for data governance initiatives like Data Discovery & Classification, Data Lineage, Data Quality etc.
• Facilitate discussion with data stakeholders on data governance processes, and translate those requirements into workflows.
• Participate in Metadata Management scrum team to partner in work efforts, provide data management experience, including an understanding of concepts, practices, procedures, and tools providing strong analytical, innovative and creative problem-solving.
• Promote a culture of Data Literacy within the Bank thus assisting in monetizing data
• Single point of contact to ensure all dimensions of data management including platform governance, data quality, metadata can be discussed and enforced in business divisions.

Experience and Qualification required :

Educational Qualification :

a) Bachelor's / Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Relevant Job Experience :

a) Overall 10+ years of experience in data governance, data management, or related roles within the banking or financial services sector.

b) Experience in enterprise data integration and management and working with Data warehouse technologies and Data governance solutions.

Skills and Competencies :

a) 3+ years of practical experience configuring business glossaries, making dashboards, creating policies etc.

b) Executing at least 2 large Data Governance, Quality and Master Data Management projects from inception to production, working as technology expert.

c) 3+ years' experience in Data Standardization, Cleanse, transform and parse data.

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