Data Governance Manager
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Enterprise data governance manager implementing frameworks, quality controls and metadata standards at CFA Institute. Improving trusted, secure data across member, candidate and CFA Program information.
Responsibilities:
- Help roll out and mature the enterprise data governance framework and recommend related standards and policies.
- Run governance projects from planning through delivery, including data quality remediation, glossary build-out and steward onboarding.
- Define and track governance metrics, identify root causes of complex data issues and work with Data Engineering to build platform controls.
- Provide data owners and leaders with data health and remediation progress dashboards.
- Set metadata standards and drive adoption of the data catalogue and business glossary.
- Align data practices with privacy, records retention and regulatory requirements and maintain audit readiness.
- Lead working groups and steward forums and train stewards and domain owners.
- Build governance checkpoints into project intake, system implementation and vendor onboarding.
- Partner with the Director to shape governance implementation across member, candidate and CFA Program data.
Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Science, Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years in data governance or data management, with hands-on experience putting governance into practice, including ownership, classification, metadata and data quality.
- Knowledge of industry frameworks and ability to turn them into workable processes.
- Working knowledge of enterprise data platforms, including cloud data lakes, Snowflake, Azure, AWS and GCP, and data catalogue or quality tools.
- Understanding of SQL and the modern data stack.
- Comfortable with project plans, requirements and KPIs, and able to break a roadmap into value-driven sprints.
- Strong working familiarity with regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
- Ability to steer governance toward high-priority data and learn how a membership organisation works.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical concepts in business terms and build consensus across business and IT.
- Adaptability and patience in the face of organisational inertia, with an inclination to offer options rather than impose change.
- CDMP, DAMA-DMBOK, CDAM or CDMC familiarity, and an asset management or wider financial services background.
Benefits:
- Eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive bonus
- 12% employer contribution to a 401(k) or pension plan
- Comprehensive medical benefits package
- Health coverage
- Generous time off
- Competitive retirement plans
- Flexible work options
- Wellbeing and development programs
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